Why It Always Sounds WEIRD When We Play Along w/FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!
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Published 2022-09-29
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All Comments (21)
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Lots of comments saying “You’re only realizing this now?” Remember that when I was playing along to Metallica songs back in the day it was on cassette. Warbly-ass cassettes on boom boxes. We did know what tuning anything really was and just went along with it. 🤣
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Majority of the Ride The Lightning album is actually a little bit sharp, there's a pitch shifted version of the entire album to practice to in perfect standard tuning. If you just search up Ride The Lightning Pitch Shifted you'll find it, that's what I've been using when practicing that album.
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Here's a fun fact as well. Ride the lightning is slightly sharp but Megadeth's Peace Sells is the opposite being slightly flat, in between standard and Eb. You'll find a similar pitch problem from playing along with that album.
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I’m so glad you made this video. This is one of the earliest songs I learned as a kid and since then I’ve never thought the E chord was the correct chord. It always sounded slightly off but I could never figure out why and just assumed it was a more complex chord than just E. I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one.
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Almost every song on the album is slightly sharp by ~29 cents. They wouldn't have sped up the whole album just to match the pitch of an anvil hit. It would be much easier to lower the pitch of the anvil hit which has already been lowered anyway. I think they probably just sped the album up to give it that little bit more energy and make the transients a little tighter. Definitely sounds better to play along with the album in tune!
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The same thing for “Dance The Night Away” by Van Halen. Eddie has a half step out of tune B string. He didn’t use tuners, but instead went by what sound he liked and wanted. I always got frustrated that I never could match this song until recently and I’ve played for 18 years lol
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You can look up the guitar hero track. That's the one i use and sounds right. They corrected several songs. It's also common knowledge guitar hero pretty much corrected death magnetic issue with the volume.
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There's a downloadable version were someone has recorrected the tuning, ie, A=440Hz. But the entire album is tuned to A=444HZ
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Whoaaa that crazy! Love learning about “strange” things like this is songs. Great vid as usual! 🤘
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YESS!!! I remember my friends convincing me I was crazy for doing this but I knew I could not have been the only one to hear it. Thanks Mike
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I know that Accept's "Balls To The Wall" is tuned higher as well, and it always used to give me headaches until I figured that out, LOL. Thankfully, I found a version here on YT that's detuned back down to E. Love your videos. \m/
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Oh man, after so many years trying to jam along with the album version and always sounding off, FINALLY you shed light to the mystery!
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I always play along with live versions because of this
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Another great video, man. Keep up the great work!
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Great vid. Informative and to the point, from actual experience. This was a joy
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I learned this many years ago and I used to tune my guitar up so I could play along with the CD. I never knew why but now I understand why they tuned up for this song.
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Mike, it’s just amazing the time and effort you put into this and shared it us. Highly admirable! 👍
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Dude!! This is why I love your channel!!
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I never knew that lol, its amazing how everyone notices little things in songs that gives them more appreciation
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I was wondering about this the other day, thank you.
