HOW TO TUNE A GUITAR
There is one very common
mistake among beginner guitarists. Tuning, whether that be poor tuning
or just an inability to tune the instrument whatsoever. There are
several ways to fix this. An electronic tuning device - There are many
of these to be found, A quick delve into any search engine will result
in thousands of products for you to choose from ranging from incredibly
cheap options to more expensive items. Even if you are not very wealthy
you can pick one of these things up for very cheap indeed.
The
next aid to tuning would be a tuning fork. The way you would use one of
these is quite simple really. You simply take the tuning fork and hit it
against something ( your leg, a table or something relatively hard.).
The tuning fork will then ring out in the pitch that it is tuned to. You
can buy tuning forks in different pitches as they are more useful to
some instruments in different keys. The most popular tuning fork is
tuned to "a 440". When you hear a pitch being describe as a number it
means that that is how many times it has to vibrate per second in order
to achieve that pitch.
How to tune a guitar
The guitar Is
tuned to E,A,D,G.B,E in 90% of situations and is hence called standard
tuning. There are hundreds of tunings for the guitar but for now we
shall stick to this one as it is by far the most common.