You’re Out!

ago, the gang at Reverb put together a list called “It’s All Relative: 5 Great Out-of-Tune Recordings.” That story, which you can track down online, pinpoints five recordings featuring instruments that aren’t tuned to concert pitch — A=440Hz — and/or not simply tuned down a half step, in the style of Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Below, however, we’re offering up. Or, to explain it another way, your band has 16 strings (two six-string guitars and a four-string bass), but at least one of those strings is in its own world and isn’t getting along nicely with the other 15.