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.

[Stol-FA-Lin]

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.

Not overlooked exactly, not for a game at least. Like a lot of other things. So what is it? Another of the symptoms of a game being published "too early" that lacks certain features, something not felt to be important or urgent for a game, some feature nobody thought anyone would be interested in, or just something not even being thought of because it "doesn't fit". Likely some combination of those and more.

It's not just the "missing" tunings and such, and it even goes beyond the underestimations and assumptions leading to the seeming lack of availability of hardware in sufficient quantities. There's the mixing of or switching between (depending on instrument) bass/treble or lead/rhythm, the lack of a single-step or speeds under 60%/70%, and what's available for keyboards and strings. So it doesn't appear in the first place to be a learning tool, just one that sort of can be used like that, at least for the time being.

Maybe we'll have non-game things like Easy Rhythm Guitar, Shred Like a Pro, and Learn Strings on a Bass Guitar to look forward to in a few years. Until then, it's pretty good for what it is. A game with extras.

[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.

[Rednaz]

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

To be fair not all the guitar tabs that I have seen have been accurate so I don't think it is that big of an issue.

[daveyvandy]

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.

You were right that Killing Loneliness was a drop step - I found it was Drop C today.

[Mega-Tallica]

You were right that Killing Loneliness was a drop step - I found it was Drop C today.

Killing Loneliness is standard tuning, a dropped tuning is unnecessary.

I've also seen it played in Standard Eb which is pretty much the same just all the chords are moved up a half step.

The only other one I know off the top of my head is:

Linkin Park's "What I've Done" - Drop D (can be played in standard, but more than likely the band plays it in Drop D)

[Rednaz]

Killing Loneliness is standard tuning, a dropped tuning is unnecessary.

Are you sure? It doesn't sound right when I play it standard. It sounds better in drop tuning.