![]() Next press down the ‘A’ note on the low E string (6th string).The more the better, but try not to reach the next note (G# or Ab – depending on how your tuner reads it). Now, with your electronic tuner still on, turn the tuning peg for the A string down (or flat) a little bit so that it is purposefully out of tune.Using whatever electronic tuner or app you have, tune the guitar the way you normally would.Here is an easy way to practice tuning a guitar by ear: That’s why I still believe, in the 21st Century, you should make sure you do so too. Things weren’t as precise back then.īut, what it did do is develop my ear. In fact, if you go back to older recordings in the 60’s and 70’s and try to play along with them, you might find that many of those songs were just a little bit off from standard tuning (which is the A note at 440hz). In the bands I was in, we would simply tune to each other by plucking the A string (or a keyboard player playing an A note) and comparing how they sound. There were ways to go about getting the right pitch too: Often we would use the ‘A’ string: we would pluck it and compare it to an ‘A’ on a piano, a tuning fork, or (and I did this a lot) to a song on a record where we knew it was an ‘A’ they were playing. So we had to rely on tuning our guitar by ear. Waaaaaayyyyyyy back when I started, electronic tuners were very hard to come by. Peterson Strobe Tuner App Before there Were Tuners… This is my favorite based on an old strobe tuner that looked like an old fashioned oscilloscope. There are some great apps too, some free, some paid for. The last couple decades have seen an immense improvement to these little devices. Compared to the old school ways, they are fast and accurate. I think we all use electronic tuners to get ourselves tuned up (that includes the clip on types). That’s kind of important! Electronic Tuners But also how much it will help develop your ear to hear things in music you never heard before.Īnd that can start with knowing if you were in tune or not. Not just so you can learn how to tune without a tuner. Possibly it could be you know someone that would benefit from this.Ī short while back I talked about how to tune a guitar without a tuner. It is a very important topic for all of you (at least in my opinion). It is something that I have revisited occasionally and it always bears repeating. I have had a number of students recently ask about the process of tuning the guitar by ear – without an electronic tuner. Published by tgermann1962 on DecemDecember 23, 2019 Tuning a Guitar by Ear: A Skill Every Player Should Have
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