How To Tune A Guitar

Apr 6, 2009 comments
Tuning is the process of manipulating the tuning pegs of a guitar so that each string rings at the proper note, or pitch. There are three principal ways of doing this: reference tuning, relative tuning and electronic tuning.

These processes are the same regardless of whether the guitar is electric or acoustic, or whether it has nylon or steel strings.

There are many different notes that a guitar can tune to. Blues players and fingerstylists are famous for using altered tunings.

However there is a standard guitar tuning and this is where all students of the instrument should start.

This tuning is, low to high, E, A, D, G, B and E. The high E is, on a piano, the E directly above middle C The tuning works downward from there.

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