How to tune the guitar

The most common and natural way of tuning the guitar is by ear.  You need to have a tuning pipe or a keyboard, a piano or another guitar and as much as possible replicate the sound of every string to the other guitar.  However, this really takes a lot of skills and practise that is why this is not so simple as it seem.
Second, would be to tune the strings by getting the sound of the lower E string or shall I say the 6^th string from another instrument or by assumption that this sounds like lower E.  After that you need to press your finger on the 5^th Fret, 6^th String and with an open 5^th string making sure that they sound almost the same.  Just tweak the tuning key to tighten meaning increasing the pitch and loosen to lower the pitch whilst plucking the string to know if they match the same note already.  Proceed to 5^th string, 5^th fret and with an open 4^th string, adjust the tuning key of the guitar again either to tighten or loosen in order to match the note of the 5^th string.  Next, would be 4^th string, 5^th fret the same procedure as above.  Then 3^rd string, 4^th fret with the same technique and procedure as above.  And lastly, 2^nd string, 5^th fret with the same technique and procedure above.  This one also needs a lot of skills, practise and focus. 
Third, would be to buy a tuner which is available in this site at our aStore or go directly to Amazon.co.uk, or buy directly online or directly to music store.  Good brands of tuner are Korg, Boss, Yamaha, etc.  It is very easy to use.  For acoustic guitar, the tuner comes with a microphone and if you’re using a chromatic tuner just hit the string and tune them one a time.  Other tuners you need to switch them to particular string i.e. 1st through 6th string while others uses notes like E-A-D-G-B-E.  For electric guitar, just plug it in if you’re using chromatic tuner and if not just follow the steps above like the ones for acoustic guitar.
Lastly, there applications now for mobile phones so all you need to do is download a guitar tuner application that is compatible to your phone and install and that’s it.  Like before I was using Nokia 6600 and I installed a symbian chromatic tuner and it works fine with my acoustic.  Now, with my Sony-Erickson Xperia X10i, still downloaded a guitar tuner called g-String and it works fine also. 
If you want a detailed video on how to tune your guitar, just go to our favourites and there’s a link there about guitar tuning.


By:  VRB