How to Tune with Guitar Harmonics

Video Transcript

"CASEY CORMIER: Alright, let's look at another method of tuning. We talked about electric tuners. We talked about using our ear, pitch pipes, and we talked about relative tuning. Well, harmonic tuning is another method of relative tuning. It's in some ways more accurate, it depends on who you ask and how your intonation of your guitar is. But if your intonation is good then it definitely is better. Well, a harmonic is created by taking a finger and instead of playing down on the 5th fret here, putting our finger right above that fret, and lightly touching it. Now that sound you're hearing is actually this E-we even have when we guitar, we have to bend to get. So you get higher notes than we could ever imagine on all the strings, okay. Now to tune relative, say we have E, we say E sounds good. Well, if we play the 5th fret harmonic of the E string, with our first finger and the 7th fret harmonic of the A string with our third or fourth finger if we don't have good stretch. Now, if we hear this: vibrations? "