The Offspring · Ixnay on the Hombre · song 7
Gone Away tuning.
Gone Away (The Offspring, 1997) is in E Standard, about 10 cents sharp (A ≈ 443), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard +10 ¢
About 10 cents sharp (A ≈ 443).
Measured by TuneLit
10 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +10 ¢.
The Offspring · Ixnay on the Hombre · 1997
About Gone Away
Gone Away, from Ixnay on the Hombre (1997), is in E Standard in every tab, but it never uses the open low E: its chords sit on F, A♭, E♭ and B♭. That is why TuneLit's audio check could not confirm the semitone from the record alone; the tuning rests on the tabs, which all agree.
Ixnay is the sharpest Offspring album TuneLit measured, about 10 cents above concert pitch (A ≈ 442.5), and Tune sets that +10 ¢. Gone Away itself reads lower, about 4 cents sharp, so the album setting puts you roughly 6 cents above the record. If the sustained chords beat against it, lower Fine-tune by a few cents.
Don't confuse this version with the 2021 remake on Let the Bad Times Roll. That one is a piano ballad a half step below the 1997 recording: to play it with the same chord shapes, tune down to E♭ Standard, or stay in E Standard and play everything one fret lower.
Tip: This page is the 1997 band version: tap Tune for +10 ¢, then lower Fine-tune about 6 cents if the chords sound sharp against the record.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +10 ¢, the notes Gone Away was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Gone Away sits 10 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Gone Away 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 Gone Away 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 +10 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Gone Away moves down 10 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 Gone Away in?
E Standard +10 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.