Is there an easy way to tune a guitar for beginners?
Question by Big Steve: Is there an easy way to tune a guitar for beginners?
I had a tuner and lost it at a friends house (i think someone stole it cause they took my six bucks i had in there for picks) anyway i have a korg on the way from Ebay but i want to play i jus got my guitar and i can tell it’s outta tune but i cant tune it pls help it you kno of a beginner friendly way. Thank you in advance and Happy turkey day!
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There are numerous on-line guitar tuners, where you tune to the tone.
Aside from that you can do a relative tuning, meaning that the strings will be tuned correctly based on 1 string which is probably tuned incorrectly. You won’t be able to play with others but you’ll be able to make music.
Tune the bottom E String to what you believe it should sound like. The A string should be tuned to the tone of the 5 fret on the bottom E string or 6th string. Continue in this pattern tuning the string below to the corresponding fret on the string above.
A – 5th fret E string 6
D – 5th fret A string 5
G – 5th fret D string 4
B – 4th fret G string 3
E – 5th fret B string 2
Michael L
April 4, 2013 at 9:08 am
Alright, try this
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/
you SHOULD be able to get your string close enough to being in tune. Then you have to do some fine tuning. Do a REALLY good job on your A string, and you high E string. The low is string would also be a good one to get into reallly good tuning, but that is one of the hardest strings to get in tune. After getting your A in tune REALLY WELL (and remember, you should have done your best on the rest of them too) do this:
Play your 5th fret on the A string a couple times, until you really memorize the sound. Now play your open D string and make sure it sounds the same, if not, adjust it accordingly by making it flat, then raising the pitch until it matches the pitch of the 5th fret A string. Do this again, fretting the 5th fret of the D string, and matching it to the open G string. Now play the 4TH fret on your G string, and match to open B. Now play 5th fret on B and match to open high E. This time, if your high sounds different, play the open high E until you have it memorized. The flatten the B string and raise the pitch until its 5th fret matches the open high E. This way you KNOW that you have your A, D, B and E strings in tune. Now recheck with the website I gave you and makes sure that everything sounds good.
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April 4, 2013 at 10:00 am