Monday, March 25, 2013

Learning to Tune a Guitar

Keeping a guitar in tune can be quite a task, especially for beginning guitarists.  However, if you want to be a guitarist, it’s something you’ll have to tackle. My suggestion is to get a cheap tuner from Guitar Center or Musician’s Friend.  It should run you about fifteen dollars, which is money well spent.  After buying it, you’ll have to practice using it, and obviously, you’ll have to memorize the notes of the strings.  From lowest to highest sounding pitch, they are the following notes.

E A D G B E 
 
Fortunately, there’s also a mnemonic device to help you learn the names of the strings.
 
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I realize that for beginning guitarists it’s a lot easier to hand a guitar to someone else to tune, but with continued practice, tuning a guitar gets easier and easier. 

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