Guitar Tuning Methods

Video Transcript

"Before we can begin playing our guitar. Playing melodies or just any kind of notes. Before we should start we really need to make sure our guitar is in tune. Now, we have these tuning pegs as we discussed before and each of them is connected to the strings (or the string is wrapped around them rather). We want to make sure that the strings each have those note values as we said before. Now, there's a couple ways. If you have a good ear you can use a pitch pipe such as this one. There's about six different pipes. Start on a low E and you can use that (Blowing on the pitch pipe and tuning the guitar). You can also use (if your ear is not so good yet, not developed) an electrical tuner. This will pick up the vibrations and tell you which note you are playing. So the E it says is a little bit flat. Flat meaning a little lower than it should be. You could go to this first tuning peg right here, with our thumb positioned here and our first finger curved and push out. Turn it back to make it lower. Same thing for A. So that needs to go a little lower. Another method with your ear is if you know sol-fege (DO, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do). If you assigned E (Sol) then A should be Do. A to D (Sol, Do), D to G (Sol, Do). Now G to B is a Do, Mi. It's also not going to be the same way. It will be accounted for in the pitch pipe. Do Mi and then finally Sol, Do. Okay?"