How to Tune Your Guitar to a C Chord
While most songs can be played in a standard guitar tuning, so-called open tunings are used to create a droning sound on the guitar that can make the instrument sound very different. Some very popular songs, such as the Black Crowes "She Talks to Angels," are played in open tunings. The purpose of an opening tuning is to make the unfretted strings sound like a fretted chord. One such tunings is Open C, which is easy to tune your instrument to.
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Instructions
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Attach the tuner to your instrument via a instrument cable--or, if your tuner does not have an instrument jack, lay it on your knee in front of the guitar.
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Pluck the sixth, or E string, with a pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone of the string reflected on the tuner drops from E to C. This will usually take four or five turns.
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Pluck the fifth, or A string, with a pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone of the string reflected on the tuner drops from A to G. This will usually take two or three turns.
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Pluck the fourth, or D, string with the pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone decreases from D to C. Again, this usually takes two or three turns.
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Pluck the second, or B, string with the pick and turn the tuning peg so that its tone increases from B to C. This will require fewer turns of the peg, as B to C is only a semitone difference, instead of a full tone.
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Leave the fourth and sixth strings tuned as they are. Your strings are now tuned, from low to high: C, G, C, G, C and E.
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