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How To Tune A Guitar

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How To Tune A Guitar

How To Tune A Guitar

VideoJug user Eddie, shows us how to tune a guitar simply and effectively. Watch this easy step by step guide, filled with diagrams and helpful tips, to help you tune your guitar properly.


Step 1:

Get A Guitar

There is nothing worse than a guitar that’s out of tune. We have devised an easy twelve-step program to tuning a guitar. To make tuning a guitar even simpler, here are two diagrams to look at. We will show you these again later.

So for Step 1, Get yourself a guitar.

Step 2:

Count The Strings

Make sure your guitar has six strings.

Step 3:

Find E

Find the note of E.

Step 4:

Tune To E

Tune your bottom E string to the note of E. Use this concert pitched E to tune your bottom E string.

Step 5:

Tune To A

Tune the A string to the tuned fifth fretted bottom E. With the string above held down on the fifth fret, both strings should sound the same.

Step 6:

Tune To D

Tune the D string to the now tuned fifth fretted A. With the string above held down on the fifth fret, both strings should sound the same.

Step 7:

Tune To G

Tune the G string to the now tuned fifth fretted D. With the string above held down on the fifth fret, both strings should sound the same.

Step 8:

Tune To B

Tune the B to the now tuned fourth fretted G. With the string above held down on the fourth fret, both strings should sound the same.

Step 9:

Tune To Top E

Return to the fifth fret, and tune the top E string to the now tuned B string. With the string above held down on the fifth fret, both strings should sound the same.

Step 10:

Make The E Chord

Now make an E chord.

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    1 out of 1 person found this comment helpful guitarforlife  (25 days ago)

    Really funny! But a bit long winded if you tune your guitar often. Better off with a simple web tuner, like http://lifesider.com/jmllifesider/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=55 (or search "online guitar tuner" on google)I find it quick, easy, and accurate.

    1 out of 1 person found this comment helpful Anonymous  (144 days ago)

    quite funny tho very useful

    Anonymous  (151 days ago)

    w0w!! thank you very much it helps me alot

    Anonymous  (182 days ago)

    Here is a great, free online guitar tuner http://www.dontfret.com/guitartuner.html

    Anonymous  (182 days ago)

    Here is a great, free, online guitar tuner http://www.dontfret.com/guitartuner.html

    0 out of 2 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (192 days ago)

    This is stupid it doesnt even work i followed it exactly and A was lower than Low E and I have been playing guitar for a while and my friend asked me to tune her guitar by using this video..... what a waste of time

    Anonymous  (212 days ago)

    find E? yeh i have one in my pocket..

    Anonymous  (282 days ago)

    Great to have the E note on hand

    Anonymous  (410 days ago)

    That piano sounds like it's out of tune, as well. The E sounds closer to C.

    Anonymous  (444 days ago)

    please any one say me guitar strings are of steel or any other thing

    2 out of 2 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (603 days ago)

    you know you could just buy a simple tuner which is about £5 in most music shops... much cheaper, easier than buying a piano and more accurate

    2 out of 2 people found this comment helpful Anonymous  (613 days ago)

    That plain stupid..You have to get a piano?Lol My advice..pick up a telephone..the pre-dialing tone is A (second string).Now a telephone is easier to find than a piano no?:D

    sdrider2003  (620 days ago)

    i did'nt know i had to buy a piano as well, think i will take up the drums.

    messenger  (632 days ago)

    A: I don't have a piano near the campfire. B: If you follow this method perfectly, the Bottom E and Top E will not be the exact same note which will make most chords sound awful. Here's a link to a better method, along with an explanation of why it's better: http://www.theguitarfiles.com/guitarfile123.html

    1 out of 1 person found this comment helpful Anonymous  (658 days ago)

    Step 1 get a guitar Step 2 make sure your guitar has 6 strings Step 3 BUY A PIANO? How do you know the piano is in tune?

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