Tuning A Guitar

Mastering the art of tuning a guitar will be easier if you admire the guitar instrument and are really eager about learning and playing the guitar.

There are several approaches to tuning a guitar. The easiest way to tune your guitar is to use a digital tuner. You play the note and the digital tuner registers the sound to the note and tells you whether a note needs to be adjusted or not.

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Digital tuners are relatively cheap (around $15-$20). It is definitely worth being in tune for the rest of your life. If you are looking to become a professional guitar player you will be much better off tuning a guitar with a digital tuner.

There are many tuner types available out there but here are the two most popular types of digital tuners.

The chromatic tuner

This tuner will tune to any note, meaning you can tune any instrument with it. However, many beginners can find this wide variety of note tuning capabilities confusing.

With chromatic digital tuners, you can set it up to be in tune with other instruments if you are playing along with other musicians. You will always be tuned perfectly.

Guitar/Bass Tuners

These only tune to the notes of the open strings (EADGBE), which eliminates the confusion for beginner guitar players. Standard guitar tuning uses the EADGBE strings.

Tuning A Guitar By Ear

This involves tuning a guitar by ear using the 5th fret rule. You tune the open strings by playing notes on the 5th fret and comparing them to the notes of the open strings. You want to get these to sound the same.

This method will get you relatively in tune.

Here’s the method for tuning a guitar by ear:

To tune the guitar, play notes to the 5th fret and compare these notes to the notes on the open strings. Strum each string and then match their sounds together:

1) To tune the A string… Strum the open A string and then place your finger on the E string on the 5th fret and play it (Get your fifth string in tune with the sixth string).

2) To Tune the D string… Strum the open D string and then place your finger on the 5th fret of the A string and play it (Get your forth string in tune with the fifth string).

3) To tune the G String… Strum the open G String, and then place your finger on the 5th fret of the D String and play it (Get your third string in tune with the forth string).

4) To tune the B String… Strum the open B String, and then place your finger on the 4th fret of the G string and play it (Get your second string in tune with the third string).

5) Then go back to the 5th fret to tune the high pitched E string (the bottom string) (Get your first string in tune with the second string).

You may have noticed that in order to tune the B string you must strum the 4th fret of the G string. To tune the B string you must match it with the 4th fret of the G string.

You use the 5th fret to tune all the other open strings.

With this method you can tune the guitar by ear by using the 5th fret rule. This method works because the open strings can be matched with the sounds that are played on the 5th fret.

It is best that you practice tuning a guitar before you move on and learn more advanced skills of playing the guitar.