How to tune your guitar with or without a piano

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Tuning your Guitar with a Piano

Tuning your guitar with a Piano or Keyboard is a simple task. It is pretty easy and good for beginners because your only playing open strings on the guitar, so you can have a free hand to turn the pegs while the piano and the guitar are resonating. And you also tune each individual string, instead of getting one reference string and tuning the rest of the strings to it.

Open Strings - Down below I will talk about playing Open Strings. To play an Open String means to play a string without fretting anything. So that's why it's called Open.

The picture above shows you each string on the guitar, it's same note on the Piano or Keyboard. Just Follow the picture for each individual string and tune the string utill it matches the Keyboard or Piano. Make sure you use the 'Middle C' on the picture as a reference point so you dont tune your guitar an octave too low, or too high.

Congratulations on tuning your guitar!

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4 Great Ways to Tune a Classical Guitar by Ear (with or without a tuner)

At some point, all us guitarists must learn to tune a guitar. Tuning makes the difference between sounding good and simply not. It makes the difference between beautiful or sour, gratifying or grossifying (if that’s a word).

Many beginners think of tuning as an occasional chore. They naively think that once or twice a week should do it. But alas, as your ear develops and you’re more able to discern “in” from “out”, tuning may become a several-times-per-practice event. Or at the beginning of every practice at the least.

Luckily, there are many different tools and methods to make tuning an enjoyable ritual that helps to set the stage for a great practice.

Any method that gets you there is a good one. Each tool and method has its strong and weak points. Each takes a little time to get used to.

How to Tune a Guitar with an Electronic Tuner (or app)

If you’re a beginner, you’ll be best served with an electronic tuner or app. There are many apps, both free and paid, available for iOS and Android.

Each app or device has its own special design, but as a rule, you can expect it to work as follows.

You’ll most likely see arrows before and after the letter name of the note being tuned. Your goal is to get the arrows on each side balanced. Some quick experimentation will tell you whether you’re turning the tuning keys the correct direction.

Things to remember:

Make sure you see the letter name of the string you’re tuning on the tuner. If it says a different note, you will get your guitar in tune to a wrong note. (As a reminder, letter names of the strings, from low-sounding to high-sounding are EADGBE, unless you’re in a different tuning)