4 proven ways to tune a guitar

This used to be done on the hooter handset or accession Nothing Else Matters, but now it's much easier.

What you need to remember

• Pre loosen all the strings, pegs releasing a couple of turns. Rising tone is best captured by the hearing, moreover, so reducing the risk of breakage of the strings.
• At each subsequent string stretch slightly attenuated and, accordingly, previous upset. Therefore, after setting any of the methods you need to check the system again and correct it if necessary.
• Make sure the ends of the strings are pressed to the Colca their turns and are fixed in the form of a flat spiral - so the guitar will slowly get upset.
• For greater convenience and clear audio, use a mediator, not fingers.

1. How to tune your guitar through the app on a smartphone

The most popular method that is suitable for beginners and even for people with a complete lack of musical ear. With the built-in microphone phone mobile application tuner detects the pitch of each string and tells you how much it needs to loosen or tighten.

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• Download from the App Store or Google Play one of the applications on your smartphone. They work the same and differ only in appearance tuning scale.

• Launch the app, go to setup mode and select the standard system (E-B-G-D-A-E). If the application has a mode "Auto", turn it on. Otherwise, press the button of the first string and do not forget to switch to another during setup.

• Pull the first string and, being guided by the tuner prompts, tighten or loosen via respective chopping.

• Repeat for the second and all the other strings.

2. How to tune your guitar using a tuner

In fact, similar to the previous method of setting, the only difference consists in the use of hardware, rather than a digital tuner. Such devices are sold at affordable prices in any music store or on AliExpress.

There tuners in the form of small boxes, pegs and pedals. All of them work on the same principle - to capture sound through a microphone or audio output, and then analyze the pitch and indicate how it differs from the reference.

• Turn the tuner and go to the guitar tuning mode. Select a standard system (E-B-G-D-A-E), if there is such a function.
• Pull the first string, and then loosen or tighten it, focusing on the tuner dial.
• Make sure that the screen displays the correct number of strings and finish stretch to such a level that the indicator has been strictly in the middle. In some tuners correct setting by an acoustic signal or changing the illumination color.
• Repeat for the second and the rest of the strings.

3. How to tune your guitar by ear on the fifth fret

The most common version of the configuration that is slightly more complicated previous. It requires at least a minimum of hearing, but it eliminates the need for any additional devices.

The essence of the method is that the strings are tuned to each other. For example, the first open string note E gives as the second, pressed on the fifth fret. That is, you need to adjust to clamp the second string at the fifth fret, alternately pull it and the first open string, and then rotate the peg of the second, to achieve sound in unison.

How to set up the first string

• Tighten the first string, it does not sag. Ideally, it should be set to the note E on the tuner, or other instrument by ear, but if you play alone - this is optional. Enough of an example configuration.

How to set up a second string

• Pull open the first string, and then - the second, pressed on the fifth fret. They should sound in unison, that is the sound of both is required to merge.
• On guitar is sounding upset in the second string will most likely not at the fifth fret, and somewhere in the fourth or third or seventh. Walk along the neck, holding the second string in different positions, and it alternately dorgayte open the first to find a way in which they are heard in unison.
• If this place is above the fifth fret, then the second string eased and for setting it is necessary to tighten. If, on the contrary, unison is below the fifth fret, the string is constricted and it is necessary to weaken.
• Rotate the peg of the second string until you get the sound in unison. The sound of both strings must be discharged.
• As we approach to fine tune rattling sound effect will increase, and then completely disappear and will appear again if the drag string. Your task: to catch the moment when the tremor is absent - this will unison.

How to set up the third string

• Pull open the second string, and then a third, pressed on the fourth fret. Rotate the peg of the third string, to get the same sound.

How to set up a fourth, fifth and sixth strings

• All other strings are adjusted by the same principle.
• The fourth string pressed on the fifth fret should sound in unison with the opening of the third, the fifth in the fifth harmony - open the fourth, and the sound of the sixth string, sandwiched on the fifth fret, should coincide with the open fifth.

4. How to tune your guitar by ear for harmonic

The most accurate and easy to use, but it is also the most complicated way. In addition to the tone deaf, you need a certain skill with a tool - namely, the ability to extract harmonics.

The method is based on a comparison of string harmonics that occur during the capture of harmonics. For their preparation, you need to pull the string, just touching her fingertip over the frets Nut certain frets.

How to set up the sixth string

• By analogy with the previous method of the sixth string tuned on the tuner, or other instrument by ear.
• It is the reference, and the whole setup is based on it.

How to set up a fifth string

• Take the harmonics on the fifth fret sixth string, then on the seventh fret of the fifth string.
• Rotate the peg last until you get the sound in unison.

How to set up a fourth string

• Remove the harmonics on the fifth fret of the fifth string and on the seventh fret of the fourth string.
• Adjust the latest, that the two sound the same.

How to set up the third string

• Take the harmonics on the fifth fret of the fourth string and the seventh fret of the third.
• Tighten or loosen the latest, until you get the sound in unison.

How to set up a second string

• Remove the harmonic at the seventh fret of the sixth string, and then Pull open the second string.
• Rotate the peg of the second string until both sounds are not merged into one.

How to set up the first string

• Take the harmonic on the fifth fret sixth string and Pull open first string.
• Adjust the last to achieve the sound in unison.