How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar-Tune Your Acoustic Guitar To Perfection In 7 Qu

[Jan King]

In these days of electronic guitar tuners and other modern ways of
tuning, knowing how to tune an acoustic guitar has never been more
essential-imagine how redfaced you will be showing up to your first
gig and not being able to play because the battery in your tuner gave
out? Follow my simple guide to learn exactly how to tune an acoustic
guitar.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar- Step 1You'll need a tuning fork or
some pitch pipes-in order to tune the guitar properly you need at
least one string to be perfectly in tune. A tuning fork or pitch pipes
with a perfect E will be perfect for this.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 2- Play the tuning fork or the
pitch pipe so you can hear the perfect E. Then you want to begin
tightening the thickest string on the guitar (the low e) until it
matches the pitch of the pipes or fork. Once you have this string as a
perfect E, you can then use it to tune all the others.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 3- With the low e string tuned to
E, hold the 5th fret and pluck the string. This note should be an A
with the exact same pitch that we need from the next thickest string.
Tune the fifth string until you can play it along with the 5th fret of
the low E string and not hear any difference.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 4- Now that the 5th and 6th
strings of the guitar are in tune, you want to repeat the process,
only this time holding the 5th fret on the 5th string, which should
produce a perfect D note. This is the note that you want to tune the
3rd string to.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 5-You should now have the three
thickest strings in perfect standard tuning. All we need to do from
there is continue the process. Hold the 5th fret on the d string and
play it, and you should hear a perfect G. This is the note that you
should tune the third string to.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 6-When you are tuning an acoustic
guitar, or an electric one for that matter you will need to keep in
the mind that the interval between the second and third strings is
different from the others. When tuning the 2nd string, instead of
holding the 5th fret on the 3rd string, you need to hold the 4th fret
to get the perfect note, which is a B. Tune the 2nd string to this
pitch.
How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar Step 7- Back to normal for the thinnest
string-we want to tune this one to another E and if you hold the 5th
fret on the 2nd string and play it, you will hear the E we need. All
you need to do is tune the 1st string so that it matches the pitch of
the 5th fret on the 2nd string. All done!
And that's how to tune an acoustic guitar. The above method will work
with acoustics and electrics, and has been used by thousands of guitar
players for many years.

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