ZZ Top · Eliminator · song 1
Gimme All Your Lovin' tuning.
Gimme All Your Lovin' (ZZ Top, 1983) is in E Standard, about 9 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
9 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +9 ¢.
ZZ Top · Eliminator · 1983
About Gimme All Your Lovin'
Gimme All Your Lovin' opens Eliminator (1983) and was the album's first single, the song that brought ZZ Top to a new audience. Its steady, driving beat sits under Billy Gibbons's distorted rhythm guitar and a melodic solo, all of it in E Standard on every tab of the song.
TuneLit measured the song about 11 ¢ sharp on the CD, close to the album value of +9 ¢ (A ≈ 442.4), so it shares that value and the Tune button sets E Standard 9 ¢ up. A guitar at A 440 sits a shade flat of the record: no disaster, but the difference shows on long bends.
The check from the audio could not decide on the lowest string, which is no surprise in a song that rarely rests on the open low E. Played on its own, the song tolerates a plain A 440 tuning, but when you play along from the start of the album, set the offset once and leave it: every Eliminator song except Got Me Under Pressure and I Need You Tonight sits within a few cents of the same +9 ¢. The single version on the Goin' 50 box measures about 3 ¢ above the album CD.
Tip: Use the album's +9 ¢ setting and check the tuning on the first sustained guitar chord after the intro.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +9 ¢, the notes Gimme All Your Lovin' was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Gimme All Your Lovin' sits 9 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Gimme All Your Lovin' 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 Gimme All Your Lovin' 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 +9 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Gimme All Your Lovin' moves down 9 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 Gimme All Your Lovin' in?
E Standard +9 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.