How to tune your guitar with an electronic guitar tuner

 Tune your guitar with an electronic guitar tuner

One of the first things you should learn in learning to play the guitar is tuning your guitar. No body like to hear a song when it is out of tune. You should know what the note is for each guitar string

Then you should get yourself an electronic tuner.

It is a good little investment for learning guitar and it will make your life so much easier. It is a little device which is operated by batteries. It can pick up the sound when you play the guitar string and it will indicate if the string is in tune or not. The tuner can pick up sounds from a built in microphone or it can be plugged into your electric guitar or acoustic guitar

The most common ones will have a LCD display showing you a gauge with a needle going left or right. That tells you if the string needs to be tightening or loosen. Some tuners might have a LED light with red and green colour. If the guitar string is in tune then it will turn to green and if it is still out of tune it will be red. It is fairly easy to operate once you get one.

They can cost from $10 to $50, some will cost up to $500. I suggest getting something around $20 to $30. So the quality is acceptable and it will last you for years. I personally use an effect pedal with a built in tuner. If you are really serious about playing guitar and would like to have a bit more fun, it is also good to get an effect pedal with a built in tuner so you don’t have to buy two separate devices. But if you like to take your guitar to different places and don’t want to carry too much cables and stuff, a stand alone electronic tuner would be convenient to carry in your pocket or in your guitar case. Check out some price of guitar gears here Just do a search on electronic tuner or guitar tuner

This guy in the video does a good job explaining how the guitar tuner works and I like his hat.

You can find out more on how they work here

Guitar strings and easily tuning them

Guitar strings and easily tuning them

If you are going to play guitar, at some stage you are going to be in contact with the guitar strings. So here is what you need to remember.

There are 6 string guitars, bass guitars which have 4 strings or 5 strings, 12 string guitars, there are even 8 and 7 string guitars. However, we will focus on the 6-string guitar for now.

Usually when the strings are played open, without pressing down any fret they should be E, A, D, G, B, E. That is from the thickest string to the thinnest

Now that you know what each string should be you can tune your guitar. There are many techniques of tuning your guitar. For now I will tell you how to do it easily.

You can use an Online Guitar Tuner like me. Just listen to the note play online and tune your guitar by tightening the tuning peg for a higher pitch and loosen the tuning peg for a lower pitch

So just press on the button below corresponding note and tune to the right pitch for each string. EASY!

It might be a bit hard to get the notes exactly right on your guitar initially but don’t worry, you will get better. If you heard some funny notes you probably playing the wrong string or the string is out of tune so tune your guitar again.

For bass guitar you usually have 4 strings which are only E, A, D, G. So you can use the same technique

Other tuning techniques include

• Tuning With An Electronic Tuner
• Guitar Tuning With A Keyboard or Piano
• Tuning In Octaves
• Tuning With Harmonics

With other techniques you can tune a guitar without using any other device other than your ear. Let’s look into those in other posts