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A girl having a hard time tuning her guitar. Photo Source

What If you don't have a piano, a pitch pipe, a tuning fork, or an electronic tuner?...

Worse, what if you still don't know how to tune your guitar to itself using the relative tuning method?...

Well, I have a good news for you.

"YOU CAN STILL GET YOUR GUITAR TUNED"

How?

How To Tune Your Guitar With An Electronic Tuner

The skill of tuning a guitar is the most important thing a guitarist needs to learn. It does not matter how good you play a piece of music if your instrument is out of tune, it will sound bad. Tuning the guitar is usually very difficult for a beginner and it will take time and patience to master it. Thus, I would certainly recommend using an electronic tuner, most especially if you are just starting out with a guitar. This is perhaps the quickest and most accurate way to get your guitar in tune.

How an Electronic tuner looks like. Photo Credits.

How does a tuning fork work

Have you tried tuning your guitar to a tuning fork?

Okay, a tuning fork actually looks like this:

Tuning fork.Photo Source.

Well, at the time of this writing, I still haven't tried tuning my guitar to a tuning fork. The truth is, I haven't seen anyone yet using this kind of tuning method. The local guitar stores doesn't seem to have this one on stock.

I did a little research over the Internet about how to use this thing. It's fairly simple once you are good at discerning pitches. A tuning fork only offers a single pitch tuning reference commonly known a the "A-440 Pitch".

Get It Right With The Pitch Pipe

Have you seen a pitch pipe?

Here's how it looks like:

An example of a pitch pipe. Photo Credits.

Yes. You can use that weird little thing to tune your guitar.

The first time I saw a pitch pipe, I never knew what it was meant for. I just stared at it for quite some time and I thought that maybe some kid must have left it there since its shape resembled a puzzle or lego piece. Out of curiosity, I grabbed it and took a closer look. When I saw the labels written on the pipes, I realized that it was some sort of a musical tool or something like a tuner.

Having fun tuning your guitar to a piano

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Tuning your guitar to a piano is a pretty simple thing to do. A piano is a great tool because piano holds it pitch so well. Unlike guitars, a piano only needs to be tuned once or twice in a year.

Proper hand movement when tuning your guitar

TIP: When you tune in the normal way, you use your left hand to turn the tuning peg. But after you remove your finger from the string that you’re fretting, it stops ringing; therefore, you can no longer hear the string you’re trying to tune to (the fretted string) as you adjust the open string. However, there’s a way to tune the open string while keeping your left-hand finger on the fretted string. Simply use your right hand! After you strike the two strings in succession (the fretted string and the open string), take your right hand and reach over your left hand (which remains stationary as you fret the string) and turn the tuning peg of the appropriate string until both strings sound exactly the same.

Strings and Frets

Now that we know the different parts of a guitar and how they work together, we move on to our next topic which is all about tuning.

Guitars, unlike other musical instruments, require you to tune it first before you can actually start playing with it.You can actually distinguish newbies from seasoned guitar players by just simply listening to the tuning of his instrument. Seasoned guitarists are very particular when it comes to tuning and they always make sure that their guitar is in tune before they perform.