Adam's Song guitar tuning

Bett · #1 05-08-2008, 08:05 PM

What's the tuning for the guitar in "Adam's Song" (Blink 182)? My friend chose this song for our band to practice as our first song together, but there's been problems getting everyone in tune. My bass is fine, but the guitarist's guitar wasn't in tune properly. I tuned it for her, and it all seemed good until we started playing again. Today while thinking about it, I realized that the tabs the guitarist had printed out may be incorrect. I was just looking up the tabs for the song and thought maybe the tuning for it was different. One site said to use drop d tuning, while another said not to. Can anyone tell me the proper tuning for the guitar so I can get this straightened out?

santucci218 · #2 05-08-2008, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bett

What's the tuning for the guitar in "Adam's Song" (Blink 182)? My friend chose this song for our band to practice as our first song together, but there's been problems getting everyone in tune. My bass is fine, but the guitarist's guitar wasn't in tune properly. I tuned it for her, and it all seemed good until we started playing again. Today while thinking about it, I realized that the tabs the guitarist had printed out may be incorrect. I was just looking up the tabs for the song and thought maybe the tuning for it was different. One site said to use drop d tuning, while another said not to. Can anyone tell me the proper tuning for the guitar so I can get this straightened out?

http://www.amazon.com/blink-182-Guit..._up_add_glance

Bett · #3 05-09-2008, 07:16 PM

I'm sure the book would have the correct tabs, but we're only playing this one song right now, so I don't know if it's worth buying a whole book.

TrooperFarva · #4 05-09-2008, 09:04 PM

These 2 seem right

http://www.tabcrawler.com/search.php...ype=guitar+tab

http://www.bassmasta.net/b/blink_182/153092.html

MrBorisSpider · #5 05-09-2008, 09:18 PM

Blink doesn't downtune more than a half-step, if that. I learned this song way back when and the bass was tuned in standard.

Bett · #6 05-09-2008, 09:47 PM

I'm fine with the bass. I've had that part figured out the day after my friend told me to learn the song and have been working on it for a few weeks now. It's the guitarist that's having problems. The first time we practiced I noticed her guitar was completely out of tune with what I was playing. At first I thought the guitar had problems, but I just realized the other day it may be from the tabs that the guitarist was using. Yesterday I printed out the guitar tabs for the song and tried the guitar part on my bass today (the bass is tuned E-A-D-G). It was completely different from the song and the tabs said nothing about using a different tuning. I also tried it with down tuning the E to D, but that didn't work with the tabs either. All I would like to do is either find tabs for the guitar in the normal E-A-D-G-B-E tuning or then know the right tuning that would work with the tabs I found, http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/b/blink...song-tab.shtml
I'm trying to get this thing sorted out since no one else in the group seems to know much about this. I was the only one that even noticed that the singer, guitarist, and I weren't in tune together. I don't think anyone else has much musical training at all, so that may be the problem. I should hire someone to give them some basic lessons

CamMcIntyre · #7 05-09-2008, 10:43 PM

This brings up memories of my first band.

Congrats on learning how to play it. If i remember correctly, this was one of my favorites to butcher.

Depth_Charge · #8 05-10-2008, 10:43 AM

Take your pick:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/searc...s+song&w=songs

But it's in standard tuning.

A common thing to do once getting a tab from the internet is trying to play it to the recording it is supposed to be based from (which you can also download for free), then fixing all the mistakes

We had to fire a "tab only" guitarist who would argue with us if he was out of tune or playing something wrong. His reply would always be "well that's what the tab says" and we'd all roll our eyes or do the face palm.

Bett · #9 05-10-2008, 09:21 PM

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A common thing to do once getting a tab from the internet is trying to play it to the recording it is supposed to be based from (which you can also download for free), then fixing all the mistakes

Yeah, the bass tab I had printed out had some parts that made no sense at all. I listened to the song a couple times and fixed the parts. Right now I have the whole song figured out, though I'm not using a pick like they do in the video. I tried a pick yesterday but it doesn't sound right and I can't play with a pick as well as I can play without one.
I found the guitar tabs for drop d tuning. I tested them out and it all sounds good. Hopefully the next practice will go well. The guitarist's guitar better stay in tune this time too. Darn cheap instruments