How to Tune an Acoustic Guitar With a Korg Chromatic Tuner

An acoustic guitar is a fun and challenging instrument to learn. But it can be troublesome for beginners to pick up, since the strings tend to come out of tune easily. Perhaps the easiest solution to this problem is a Korg Chomatic Tuner. Korg makes electronic guitar tuners that can sense the pitch of a string, and tell the user whether the string is sharp of flat, allowing the guitar to be tuned easily and efficiently.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Turn on the Korg tuner and place place it somewhere that you can view as you hold your guitar.

2. Play a string and watch the tuner's readout to see whether it is sharp or flat. Remember that the strings should be set to the following notes for standard tuning: 6th to E, 5th to A, 4th to D, 3rd to G, 2nd to B, and 1st to E. If one of your strings is too far away from its proper note, you may have to adjust it with its tuner key before the Korg tuner will recognize it as the proper string.

3. Adjust the string with its tuner key as necessary until the tuner readout shows it is neither flat or sharp.

4. Continue the process of steps 2 and 3 on each string. Make sure you use the proper tuning key for each string, or you may inadvertently change the tuning on the wrong string.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use your Korg tuner to quickly check the tuning of each string before any practice session to make sure your guitar will sound good. Your tuner will likely allow for tunings at several steps below standard tuning by pressing a flat button. If a string is far off tune and not being recognized, your tuner may have a button that will make it play tones for each string, so you can tell whether your string is too high or too low.

Resources

• Some basic information on guitar tuning