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I always thought it was well known that a lot of records weren't at exactly concert pitch, and if you wanted to play along with it you just tuned the guitar to the record.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
If you're interested in Eddie Van Halen's _exact_ tuning, then read this thread on the Metropolous forum.
http://forum.metropoulos.net/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=42944&sid=94fa80ea5d97d6b6b56addd8b2fbe52e
Although as Chuck would have, presumably, been tuned to the piano and the original recording is now over sixty years old and will have had various pressings who knows for sure what the intended key was.
The opening motif is very similar, yes - but apart from that and being a 12-bar, it's not very close. The lyrics are completely different - and which were always Chuck Berry's real focus, he only had about four or five songs if you just listen to the music without the vocals .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yeah that was my experience too. No one had a tuner when I was growing up, not even at school in our well equipped music room which boasted 3 pianos and an actual early Korg synth .... which used to drift in tuning all the time ....
At band practice we would tune our guitars to each other, having no other form of reference. To avoid breaking strings we always went tuned to the guitar that was lower in pitch. When I started work and brought my first tuner I plugged it in and realised our E strings were tuned just sharp of D .... and we soon found out we couldn't sing the songs we had written when we did tune up properly so we went down to D again.
(I think Sabbath did it.)
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
There are parts of Call Of Kthulu that are almost unlistenable on RTL due to someone being out of tune.
The first track on H2O's debut album really grates as well., due to tuning issues.
It winds me up. There's no excuse for it.
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It’s also possible to push the limits of tuning creatively, and what sounds like expressive use of pitch to one person can grate for another, hence the endless arguments about the end section of Layla, and Neil Young’s playing...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Nowadays I just use my Digitech Whammy to nudge my tuning to match the Hertz.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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