List of Pro Guitar songs with *Alternative Tunings*

[daveyvandy]

I thought it might be good to make a master list of all of the Rock Band songs with Pro Guitar alternative tunings. You know how when you are playing a song with your Squier plugged into an amp and it sounds out of tune even after you just tuned it? Well, some songs have alternative tunings. I won't pretend to be an expert on the subject, since the Squier is the first guitar I have ever used. Maybe the experts can chime in and help all us noobs out on the correct tunings and how to get to them.

The format has been cleaned up from before - I hope it's a lot easier to see songs lumped together. This should help making a play-list after you re-tune your guitar.

If you disagree with the listed tuning, let me know and I'll change it.

I think this goes without saying, but make sure you have a tuner.

UPDATE:
It was too difficult to maintain this original post, so, anyone can go to this Google Spreadsheet and update the tunings as they see fit. Big thanks to rrwoods for setting it up!

Click on the following link!
http://tinyurl.com/4k7s2fg

Thanks for everyone's help in maintaining this list

[Rednaz]

Beast and the Harlot is Drop D. I think that Killing Loneliness is also Drop D but I'm not sure, but it definitely is a drop step.

[leff4]

Even if a song is normally played in a certain tuning, it is possible for harmonix to chart it for a different tuning. So what really matters is what tuning did the harmonix team chart with. This should definitely be published. Why make us guess when they know for sure?

[celebritykillingspree]

I was kind of hoping that people would find when they plugged in their squiers and jumped into learn a song that there would be a notation as to tuning it's been charted in.

It is so profoundly frustrating and disappointing that they didn't do this. Honestly, I'm a guitar player so I can take an educated guess at some of these but if this is supposed to be a learning tool this is one very, very obvious thing to overlook.

For what it's worth, I can tell you off the top of my head that both "The Beautiful People" (on disc) and "My Own Summer" (DLC) are in drop D.

[rrwoods]

I like this thread idea! A suggestion though.

List the tunings like this: "E-A-D-G-B-E (Standard)". That way you'll be able to list all the songs one per line.

I will probably help out on this at some point as I am eager to try some of these songs "for real" as well and knowing the tunings is a good thing. Off the top of my head:

Paramore - Misery Business: Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb (Drop Db).

[Jugular]

Here is the list. Note that this is just what the game is telling me; I did not use any intuition or logic in determining keys or tunings. The game only seems to tell you what key the song is in during keys training so if a song doesn't have a keys part, I didn't list the key. The game also doesn't tell you whether or not to use a capo.

This exercise made me realize we need some Super Furry Animals so that we can get a new tuning (they use DADDAD a lot.)

Sorry about the formatting issues. I seem to have a hard time using these forums. (edit: I've changed my table to a "code" format to make it easier to read.)

Jugular

Song			Key	Tuning

20th Century Boy	E	Standard
25 or 6 to 5		A	Standard
Antibodies		Ebm	Standard
Beast and the Harlot		Drop D
Beautiful People	Dm	Drop D
Been Caught Stealing		Standard
Before I Forget		Dbm	Drop D
Bohemian Rhapsody	Eb	Standard
Break on Through	Em	Standard
Caught in a Mosh		Standard
Centerfold		G	Standard
China Grove		E	Standard
Cold as Ice		Ebm	Standard
Combat Baby		E	Standard
The Con			Ab	EGDGBE
Crazy Train			Standard
Crosstown Traffic	Cm	Standard
Dead End Friends	F#m	Standard
Don't Bury Me… 			Standard
Don't Stand So Close	Gm	Standard
Du Hast			Em	Standard
Everybody Wants to Rule Eb	Standard
False Alarm			Standard
Fly Like an Eagle	Am	Standard
Foolin'			Am	Standard
Free Bird		G	Standard
Get Free			Standard
Get Up, Stand Up	Cm	Standard
Good Vibrations		Ebm	Standard
The Hardest Button 		Standard
Heart of Glass		E	Standard
Here I Go Again		G	Standard
Hey Man Nice Shot		Drop D
Humanoid		Em	Drop D
I Can See for Miles		Standard
I Got You (I Feel Good)	F#m	Standard
I Love Rock N' Roll	E	Standard
I Need to Know		Em	Standard
I Wanna Be Sedated		Standard
Imagine			C
In a Big Country	E	Standard
In the Meantime		E	Standard
Jerry Was a Race Car		Standard
Just Like Heaven	A	Standard
Killing Loneliness	Cm	Drop D
The Killing Moon	Em	Standard
King George			Standard
Lasso				Standard
Last Dance		Ab	Standard
Living in America	Abm	Standard
Llama			Em	Standard
The Look		A	Standard
Low Rider		G	Standard
Me Enamora		Em	Standard
MidLife Crisis		Em	Standard
Misery Business			Drop D
Need You Tonight	Cm	Standard
No One Knows			Standard
Oh My God		A	Standard
One Armed Scissor		Standard
Outer Space			Standard
Oye Mi Amor		Bm	Standard
Plush				Standard
Portions for Foxes	D	Drop D
The Power of Love	C	Standard
Radar Love		F#m	Standard
Rainbow in the Dark	Am	Standard
Rehab			C	Standard
Rock Lobster		Cm	EADGAA
Roundabout		Em	Standard
Saturday Night's 	G	Standard
Sister Christian	C	Standard
Smoke on the Water	Gm	Standard
Something Bigger	Am	Standard
Space Oddity		C	Standard
Stop Me if You Think 	Cm	Standard
This Bastard's Life	D	Standard
Viva la Resistance		Standard
Walk of Life		E	Standard
Walking on the Sun	Abm	Standard
Werewolves of London	G	EGDGBE
Whip It			E	Standard
Yoshimi Battles 	C	Standard

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Humanoid is tuned the same as Before I Forget.

Fortunate Son is tuned one step down from standard.

[Darky_06]

Even if a song is normally played in a certain tuning, it is possible for harmonix to chart it for a different tuning

Yep, some songs are in tunings that differ to online tabs.

The tunings for each song are in the song training mode.
If you turn on chord help and deliberately miss a note or chord that is played towards the guitar's nut (fret "zero"), the help chart will pop up and show the tunings for each string on the far left side.

[alex_rb]

Creedance Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
E -> D
B -> B
G -> G
D -> D
A -> G
E -> D
AKA - Open G Major


Or to fit on one line

Creedance Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son: D-G-D-G-B-D (Open G Major)

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Creedance Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son: D-G-D-G-B-D (Open G Major)

Thanks for the correction.