How To Tune Your Guitar

Today we're going to take a look at how to tune your guitar with a digital tuner. And the traditional method listing. Now, this is going to work for your electric guitar, your acoustic guitar, your nylon string guitar. If great musicians always tune their guitar before playing, it is not properly tuned. This situation may be due to temperature variations. To tune your guitar, you have 2 alternatives.

The traditional method: listening

To tune your acoustic guitar you can use the traditional method and you will need your ears. To find the right tuning for a note, it must be tuned with another instrument. Start with low E. Continue with the second string, tuning it open with the B of the first string. Continue tuning by tuning the other notes to the last string. At first, this will take you a few minutes, but professionals and regulars only take a few seconds to tune their guitar. So the notes are going to be: E, A, D, G, B, E.

The digital tuner

If you are a beginner in the field, this little device will be of great help to you in tuning your electric guitar Indeed, a tuner is a tool that even professionals use and it seems effective even if it takes all your time. In the market, you can find different models which are usually made up of 6 knobs for the 6 strings of your guitar. A needle will show you the correct chord. Currently, you can also find applications that are used as a “tuner” and that you can install on your smartphone or tablet. These are not as precise and cannot replace professional and traditional tuners. If the task is easier with a tuner, it is better to also adapt to the first technique, because you have to get used to your ear. So now the tuner's telling us that we're in tune. We're going to go ahead and check that against our ear. Sounds good to me.