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Do you want to know how to tune your guitar? We have everything you need to tune your guitar
in so-called “standard” tuning. Let’s dive straight into this essential beginner’s guide. It is vital that you
learn to tune your guitar, it's essential knowledge for a beginner guitarist. You can be the
best guitarist in the world, but if your guitar is out of tune, you will sound bad.
In this free guitar lesson you will learn:
1-The notes of a guitar in standard tuning.
2-How to tune a guitar using an electronic tuner.
3-How to tune a guitar using a smartphone application.
4-How to tune a guitar using other instruments.
5-How to tune a guitar using your own strings
6-Tips to keep your guitar in tune and sounding good.
How to tune your guitar in standard tuning?
There are several guitar tuning profiles, but by far the most popular is “thetuning standard". In tune
standard, the notes of the guitar, from the thickest to the thinnest are: E, A, D, G, B, E
Here are two useful mnemonics to help you remember the order “Mi, La, Ré, Sol, Si, Mi”.
The Minister is to The Republic what the Soldier is to the Military Site (to remember Mi, La, Ré, Sol, Si, Mi: the name of the open strings from the 6th to the 1st string)
Mille Singes Solidaires Repair La Micheline (to remember E, B, G, D, A, E: the name of the open strings from the 1st to the 6th string).
In the sense: Mi, La, Ré, Sol, Si, Mi
Milare and Saul got started
Mix the voice again listen in G o if x minutes
My Luthier Revises His Musical Solfège
Star of Love Becomes Big, Beautiful and Dazzling
Mid-Star, The Soul of Love, Really Becomes Solitarily Great, So Beautiful, Better… Dazzling!
Put the stripe on the cement
Edouard Ate Dynamite Good Bye Edouard
The (Mi)litary (La)ve (Re)enjoyed the (Ground) (If) (Mi)roir
At the Ministry of the Republic the SOLDIERS are at the MIllitère site.
In the sense: Mi, Si, Sol, Ré, La, Mi
Damn if the Sol Fège Settles the Migraine!
A thousand jigsaws reduce the Amazon to smithereens.
(Mi)nce (if) (Sol)ène (re)ponds! It's misery.
thank you sol and friend
Choose the one you like best or invent your own. Now that we know the notes, it's time to tune your guitar.
You've already learned the first half of tuning a guitar, well done!
Now we need to see how to tune a guitar to E, A, D, G, B, E.
Look at her head of your guitar (the thin end of the guitar).
You will see little “wheels” that you can turn. Each string is attached to its own wheel. When we turn a dial, we change the pitch of the note to which the string is tuned.
How do we know what note the string is tuned to when we turn the machine heads? Easy.
We use a tuner to tell us! If you're wondering how to tune a guitar with what you have on hand, there are 4 methods (we'll cover them one after the other)
When people wonder how to tune their guitar, electronic guitar tuners are the best option.
They are fast and precise. When you have a decent electronic guitar tuner, you simply won't need to worry about how to tune a guitar. The interface of ALL tuners is basically the same. You pluck a note and the tuner shows you the note you played.
The tuner shows you this in three ways:
1- He indicates the string he thinks you are trying to tune.
2 – It shows you with an oscillating “needle” how far from the note you are.
3 – It indicates with a light if the note is too low or too high. You have to place the needle or the indicator in the middle.
You understood ? So, let's tune in!
1 – Turn on the tuner.
2 – If necessary, tell the tuner the string you want to tune. (Most tuners automatically detect strings by default, but some tuners need to be manually told which string to tune).
If your tuner is manual, make sure it “listens” to the correct string you want to tune. If the tuner is set to “listen” to a different string, you risk over-tuning the string and it will break!
3 – plays a string.
4 – Look at the tuner. Is the needle in the middle? If not, turn the machine head in one direction or the other.
5 – Play a string again. Which way did the needle go? If she got closer to the middle, keep going! If it has moved away from the middle, turn the machine head in the opposite direction.
6 – Repeat the cycle: play the string then look at the tuner and turn the machine head until the needle is in the middle.
While tuning, play the string A LOT.
Most beginners are quite timid and play once and then wait forever while the tuner “listens” for a note that has stopped sounding. Don't do this. You have to play, play, play! The more notes your guitar emits, the easier it is for the tuner to hear them!
There are 3 different types of electronic tuners.
The ideal is that you know how to tune your guitar with all three.
It's quite easy: “placing the needle or the indicator in the middle” remains our objective.
Electronic vibration tuners
Vibration tuners attach to the headstock of your guitar. They are excellent if you are in a noisy place because they detect the pitch of the note by vibration. So if there is a lot of noise around you, it doesn't affect the tuner (because it doesn't rely on a microphone).
Once in place and turned on, it usually automatically indicates the note your string is tuned to.
So you don't need to worry about “manual” or “automatic” detection.
They are very precise and have color LCD screens that are easy to read, even in direct sunlight.
The needle is indicated by different colors.
Microphone tuners are great and don't clutter up the headstock of your guitar like clip-on vibration tuners do.
The only downside is that the microphone must be able to hear the guitar clearly. If there is other music in the room (or television sound, for example), the tuner will be disoriented.
You can use these devices for all acoustic guitars and, if they have a jack input, you can also use them for electric guitars.
Like vibration-based clip tuners, they sometimes automatically detect strings, but depending on the model, you may need to pre-select the note manually.
They are VERY precise and connect directly to your electric, bass or electro-acoustic guitar via a jack wire.
They are expensive, but awesome. The pedals work like any tuner (the lights represent the needle), but of course you have to press the pedal to turn it on or off.
For most modern guitar learners, smartphone apps are a good, inexpensive starting point for learning how to tune a guitar. There are hundreds of free and paid smartphone apps that are decent. They work exactly the same as the electronic pickup-based tuners we covered above.
If you play another musical instrument, it is possible to tune your guitar to that instrument (especially if it has a fixed tuning like an electronic keyboard). To learn how to tune a guitar this way, you will need to find E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 on your instrument. (On a keyboard or piano, E2 is two octaves below middle C.) You may need to play each note on your instrument, holding it like a “drone,” so that when you tune your guitar , you can listen carefully to when the notes start to resonate and sound the same. Once you have the low E string, you can tune the others using the method below.
Tune the thickest open string as precisely as possible to a low E.
Place your first finger on the fifth fret of the thickest string. This will give you an A that will sound exactly how you want the open 5th string to sound. You can now tune the 5th string to match the note you hold on the 6th string.
Keeping your finger on the fifth fret, gently play the 6th string and the open 5th string in turn, gradually turning the 5th string dial until the two notes are in harmony. You must listen carefully. The two notes will resonate when they are in harmony.
We're going to do the same thing again, but one rope higher. Place your first finger on the fifth fret of the 5th string. This is a D note. Keeping your finger on the fifth fret, play the 5th string then the 4th open string one after the other, while turning the dial on the 4th string until the note on the 4th open string sounds like the note on the fifth fret of the 5th string.
Same thing. Place your first finger on the fifth fret of the 4th string. This gives a ground note. Keeping your finger on the fifth fret, alternately play the 4th string and the 3rd open string, turning the dial on the 3rd string until the 3rd string is in tune with the fifth fret of the 4th string.
It's different here. Place your first finger on the fourth fret of the 3rd string. This gives an if. Keeping your finger on the fourth fret, alternately play the 3rd string and the 2nd open string, turning the head of the 2nd string wheel until the 2nd string agrees with the fourth fret of the 3rd rope.
Place your first finger on the fifth fret of the 2nd string. This is a note of E.
Tune the last, thinnest string by turning the dial on the first string until the sound of the first string resonates with the fifth fret of the second string.
So you can see that we tuned each string to the previous string. To remember this pattern, think “5 5 5 4 5”.
Remember that the second string is the only one that uses the fourth fret for tuning. All others use the fifth fret.
Guitars are more sensitive than most people realize, so keep these things in mind.
Guitars go out of tune every day and there is nothing more demotivating for a guitar student than having a bad sound while playing. It's not an optional thing. As musicians, we should tune our instrument as part of our routine EVERY time we play. You must therefore tune your guitar as soon as you pick up your guitar to play.
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