How to Tune your guitar

A musical instrument is a nice thing to have around the house especially of you know how to play it. Musical instruments are numerous and differ in the sounds they make. They can be big instruments like the piano or little instruments like the flute. All instruments based on cords need to be tuned . For example the guitar needs to be toned.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• guitar
• electric keyboard/piano/guitar toner

1. Notice that the guitar has 6 strings. When looking at the guitar standing in front of you like in the picture notice form the right to the left the 6 strings. the represent in this order: the E string, the B string, the G string, the D string, the A string and again the E string.
2. If you have a piano or electric keyboard you can tune your guitar from them by playing the notes we talked about earlier beginning with the E note from the middle octave and continuing with the B and G notes from the octave next to it on the left and so om. By rotating the peg you can tone the guitar.
3. If you have a toner its more easier you just have to connect t to the guitar or if you have a classic guitar you have to put it near the bridge, then you have to rotate the peg till the toner indicates that the instrument is in tune. The tuner indicates the fine tone by LED lights, when red it means that it is wrong and when green it means that it's all right also make sure its the right note you want to obtain because you could tune the E note for example to sound like a G note. A professional tuner has a row of LED lights for the string notes(6 lights ) and another one for a single string which indicates if you need to move the peg up a little more( b) and one that is the fine tune and las but not least the third one that indicates that you need to turn the peg down a little(# ).

Tips & Warnings

• If a peg brakes use a pair of tongs
• do this only on your guitar, if someone else needs to tune his guitar tell him to read this article