The Offspring · Americana · song 11
Why Don't You Get a Job? tuning.
Why Don't You Get a Job? (The Offspring, 1998) is in E Standard, about 6 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
6 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +6 ¢.
The Offspring · Americana · 1998
About Why Don't You Get a Job?
Why Don't You Get a Job?, from Americana (1998), is in plain E Standard in the community tabs, like everything on the album except the Drop D title track.
Americana sits about 6 cents sharp on the CD (A ≈ 441.6), and Tune sets that. This song reads higher still, about 9.5 cents sharp: close enough to the album that it shares its setting, but if you listen closely, your guitar may sound a few cents flat against the record. Raising Fine-tune by about 3 cents puts you on the song's own pitch.
TuneLit's audio check pointed a half step higher, toward F, for this song. That is a known blind spot: when a song's riffs sit on F and the open low E is rarely played, the check picks F as the lowest string. No tab or source puts the song in F, and nobody needs to tune up for it: stay in E Standard, where every tab of the song is written.
Tip: Tap Tune for +6 ¢ and raise Fine-tune by about 3 cents if the chords still sound a touch flat; the song itself reads about 9.5 cents sharp.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +6 ¢, the notes Why Don't You Get a Job? was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Why Don't You Get a Job? sits 6 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Why Don't You Get a Job? along with the record: its lowest open note and your String 6 should ring together without a wobble.
Or the other way round
Move the record into your tuning
Rather keep your guitar as it is? Let Play along move Why Don't You Get a Job? instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in E Standard +6 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Why Don't You Get a Job? moves down 6 cents, at its own speed. Slow it down or loop a few bars to learn it, and save the result as a WAV file.
Questions
What tuning is Why Don't You Get a Job? in?
E Standard +6 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.