The Pretty Reckless · Light Me Up · song 6
Miss Nothing tuning.
Miss Nothing (The Pretty Reckless, 2010) is in E♭ Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
At concert pitch
The album's value, measured on the CD.
The Pretty Reckless · Light Me Up · 2010
About Miss Nothing
From the 2010 debut Light Me Up, Miss Nothing is listed in E♭ Standard, every string a half step down (E♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭), like most of the album. Taylor Momsen sings; the guitars are Ben Phillips and producer Kato Khandwala, who is credited with guitar on every track of the album.
TuneLit measured the CD at concert pitch, about 0.7 ¢ flat, and Miss Nothing about 2 ¢ flat, so Tune opens E♭ Standard at plain A 440 with no offset. TuneLit's semitone check from the audio hears the open low E♭ and agrees with that tuning.
The tabs disagree. The most-viewed one uses Drop D, while a well-rated Ultimate Guitar tab is half a step down. The Drop D tab never plays its open D and goes no lower than E♭, and the record never sounds a low D either, so the Drop D tab is a different fingering rather than a different sound. TuneLit lists E♭ Standard because the record and the audio check fit it, and it saves a retune between this song and the rest of the album.
If you learned Miss Nothing from the most-viewed Drop D tab, you do not have to start again. To move it into E♭ Standard, play every String 6 note one fret lower and every note on the other five strings one fret higher; the tab's lowest note, the first-fret E♭, becomes your open String 6. Practise that conversion on a short section first, slowly against the record, before working through the rest of the song.
Tip: Use the half-step-down tab rather than the most-viewed Drop D one, and check your open String 6 against the low E♭ on the record.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E♭ Standard, the notes Miss Nothing was recorded in.
- From E Standard: Every string down a half step. No tuner that knows E♭ Standard? Clamp a capo across fret 1, tune to E Standard as usual, then take it off: every string drops to E♭ Standard. Check each string again afterwards, since a capo pulls the strings a little sharp.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Miss Nothing sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Miss Nothing 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 Miss Nothing 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. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Miss Nothing moves up a half step and 1 cent, 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 Miss Nothing in?
E♭ Standard: E♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.