Tuning a guitar for the first time in over 20 years.
Tuning Your Guitar
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Welcome to Guitargate!
Let's begin with tuning your guitar. It is imperative that you keep your guitar in tune for two reasons:
1. So you sound good!
2. Training your ear
There are six strings on the guitar and we count down from the thickest string to the thinnest string. The thickest string is closest to you and has the deepest sound, while the thinnest string is closest to your legs and has the highest sound. Your strings are named after letters in the alphabet, and they are as follows:
- 6 - E
- 5 - A
- 4 - D
- 3 - G
- 2 - B
- 1 - E
The best way to tune your guitar is with a tuner. I highly recommend that you buy a tuner if you do not already have one. Using a tuner is very simple and most tuners work exactly the same way. While your tuner should automatically detect which string you are tuning, remember to make sure that the tuner displays your desired tuning note. If it doesn't, then the string is either too high or too low in pitch.
For example: If you are tuning the 6th string you should see an "E" on the tuner. If you see another note, then you are either too high or too low for the tuner to know you are on the 6th string.
When you adjust the tuning peg, the string tension will increase or decrease, depending on the direction you choose to turn it. While the string is ringing, turn the tuning peg until the display is in the center of the tuner. On most tuners, when you reach the correct pitch, the tuning light will change color.
Always remember to tune "up" to a pitch and not down to a pitch. This helps in keeping your guitar in tune.
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Tuning using a clip on Snark tuner. Typically utilize either that or the built in tuner on my Positive Grid Spark 40 amp.
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Tuning up with shark tuner, and checking with 5th/4th fret tuning method...
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Tuned to standard, then Drop D, then poorly played (haven't played it in ages) a bit of Black Hole Sun!
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Should I be wearing my strap? I have a strap I donβt wear it because it irritates my neck with back problems but I can get over that with some modificationβ¦ which begs my second question maybe I need to answer: should I be wearing my contacts while Iβm learning since I need to look & work and itβs not just feelβ¦? (Actually blind, not fashion frames in the least.) Also, though, Michael - would you prefer I stop looking and learn to feel?
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Re-upload because the other one didn't work correctly.
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3 Ways I tune my guitars. Tuner, 5th & 4th frets, and harmonics.
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Tuning my acoustic. Misspoke in numbering the strings, mostly due to camera shyness.
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This is a short video showing how I tune my solid body electric which has the Floyd Rose locking nut and floating bridge system. It's not the easiest guitar to tune or change strings.
Also, when I was filming my tuner, I didn't know it wasn't showing the flat side of the tuner. Sorry
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Tuning guitar
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the other fun thing about these lessons is remembering back to when I first started playing and things we just take for granted now that simple things are such second nature. -GB
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I am Alexandra. I am giving some guitar tuning tips I wish I knew when I started out learning the guitar.
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I have used app tuners but have never owned an electric or acoustic tuner and have always done it by ear.. Michael did not talk of tuning by ear - is this ok to do? Since I'm recording these videos on the phone, I can't use the app at the same time. I have learned too that after warming up it's good to re-tune as the guitar can change tune..
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I would like to blame the cheap Epiphone tuners and old strings, but I am sure the operator was the cause for needing 5 min to tune my guitar.
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