Need help tuning...Extreme Beginner!

[JJVandJMB]

I've owned a guitar for 2 whole days and I need help...I just downloaded a
guitar tuner program (Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner 1.02) and I need to know which
strings to pluck to corrispond to these notes. I have no idea what I'm doing
yet! Here are the choices:
Open E (first string?)
Open B (second string?)
Open C (?)
Open G (third string?)
Open D (?)
Open A (?)

Thanks,
John

[PaulShook]

From the top (big) string going down it it EADGBE.

[Chuck]

On 02 Nov 2001 22:58:44 GMT, jjva...@aol.com (JJVandJMB) wrote:

>I've owned a guitar for 2 whole days and I need help...I just downloaded a
>guitar tuner program (Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner 1.02) and I need to know which
>strings to pluck to corrispond to these notes. I have no idea what I'm doing
>yet!

First off, I strongly suggest to you that you invest in an electronic
tuner. I mean, you can buy a real decent one for something in the
$30.00 range. Much better than messing with some software tuner
program .. I mean, how do you propose to take the computer with you
if/when you want to go over to a buddy's pad and jam? ???

> Here are the choices:
>Open E (first string?)
>Open B (second string?)
>Open C (?)
>Open G (third string?)
>Open D (?)
>Open A (?)

I don't understand your "choices". Something is wrong, wrong, wrong.

!rst string [the smallest string] is tuned to E
2nd string [next smallest] is tuned to B
3rd string ... G
4th string .... D
5th string .... A
6th string [the largest string] is tuned to E. This E is two octaves
lower than the open first string.

There is no string tuned to C

Another piece of good advice ... get yourself a guitar instructor
before you develop a whole crop of bad habits .. and I'll guarantee
you that bad habits are more than likely what you are about to start
developing unless you get an instructor. It's a hell of a lot easier
to deveolpe good habits to start with than it is to develop bad
habits, then have to break the bad habits and still learn good habits.