Monday, November 8, 2010

Axe Survival Guide - Tuning Your Guitar




  This may sound silly but you MUST make sure your guitar is in tune.  You can buy electronic tuners for this.  They clamp onto the neck of the guitar.  You pluck each string and turn the peg to tighten or loosen the string.  Usually a red light tells you it is out of tune.  When the light turns green the string is in tune. However I’ve included two links below to videos you can watch to tune your guitar to.
The first is standard E:  It was especially common in rock in the 70s (especially bands from the UK) to play in this key.  To play along to some albums, you’ll need to tune to this key.  It starts from the 6th string (the thickest string)


The second tuning is E Flat, which is more common in the US, and has become more popular by most rock and metal bands worldwide.  On this video the person marks it as G Sharp, which actually is the same as A Flat (don’t worry if that doesn’t make sense, just tune the strings until is sounds the same)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QkIs6eNa0

So, just pluck the open string and turn the tuning pegs until the two sounds sound as close as possible.  You may need to go through the whole process twice to make sure they are all still in tune.
Be patient it takes time to learn how to tune your guitar.
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