Two ways to tune your guitar at home

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Many guys and girls are burning with an unbridled desire to learn how to play the six-string guitar. And, I must say, they quickly grasp the basics of this art. Everything seems to be fine, if not for one "but" … Any guitar (acoustic or electric) tends to get upset, but not because it is bored with you, but rather, on the contrary, because you play it a lot! What to do in this case? Of course, tweak it! But what if a complete customization is required? After all, this is a separate lesson that not all beginner guitarists can do. Do not worry, in this article we will tell you, friends, how to tune a guitar at home.

As a consolation, I would like to note that the inability to independently tune the guitar does not mean the inability to own it. For example, the sound of a piano is much more difficult to adjust. Many experienced pianists still do not know how to tune their own instrument, and this does not prevent them from performing on stage and receiving universal recognition from the audience!

How to tune a guitar at home

A littletheory

There are two proven ways to do this. In this article, we'll take a look at both. The most important thing in tuning a guitar is to know and understand its simple mechanism. Know that the very first string, at the very bottom of the fifth fret, is nothing more than a note called "la" for the first octave. There is an opinion among amateur guitarists that the tuning of a six-string guitar will be considered correct only when this note sounds like a telephone dial tone. In this case, the correctly tuned first, but already open (not clamped) string "mi" (for the first octave) corresponds to the sound of a piano or a tuning fork. If you have a hearing, then the instrument can be adjusted, sorry for the tautology, by ear. So let's finally learn how to tune a guitar at home.

Method 1: tune by ear

We note right away that there will be nothing to worry about if you do not quite accurately tune "la" and "mi" for the first octave. Adjust the first string as much as you can. In the future, you will get used to this sound. In addition, you will already know firsthand how to tune a guitar at home with the same sound on its first string. To do this, hold it at the fifth fret (make the string closed) and achieve the appropriate sound. You can use a tuning fork.

Remember that tuning the first (lower) closed string is the most important and crucial moment in the whole process, because it is from "la"and "mi" "dance" all the rest! So, once the first step is taken, the rest becomes much easier. All other strings must also be clamped on the fifth fret, adjusting them already under the open previous one, achieving complete consonance (in unison) with it!

Attention

The only exception is the third string! The fact is that it needs to be clamped not on the fifth, but on the fourth fret. It turns out that in this case it should sound in unison with the already open second string on the fifth!

Method number 2: tune through the microphone

This method is much easier than the first one. You don't have to rely entirely on your ears here. All you need is to install the appropriate program on your computer that allows you to tune the guitar through a microphone. Finding such software is quite easy. To tune the guitar through the microphone, you need to do the following:

• connect the microphone to the computer;
• bring it closer to our six-string guitar;
• run a pre-installed or online tuner;
• we start extracting open sounds and look at what the program shows us, that is, we tune a certain string to the corresponding note.