How To Tune A Guitar
Learning how to tune a guitar is so simple that you can grasp the basics in minutes. Following is a guide to tuning your guitar to itself manually. You can also use an electric guitar tuner or tune the guitar to another guitar simply using the tuning pegs for each string.
When tuning your guitar to itself, you would normally use the bottom, thickest string as a tuning note and work your way up tuning the rest of the strings to the bottom string.
This would be performed by pressing down on the fifth fret when plucking the bottom string to get the sound that you will use to tune all the other strings. Next pluck the second thickest string (A string) and twist the tuning pegs until it is perfectly in tune with thickest string when the fifth fret is pressed.
Work your way up the strings in the same manner.
All the strings would be tuned to this note except the B string (2nd thinnest string) which would be tuned by pressing down on the forth fret of the G string (3rd thinnest) to tune.
At first tuning your guitar may seem a little daunting, but you will find that after a few goes it will become second nature. Give it a try.
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