Video: Tuning Techniques for Dobro Slide Guitar

Learn about tuning techniques for Dobro slide guitar in this free Dobro guitar video.

Video Transcript

Hi! I'm Ed Dowling from eddowling.com. I'm here to talk about tuning in general for open tunings, uses of tuners for expertvillage.com. In the old days, people used the pitch pipe or if there was 3 or 4 people around, they would all just agree on what note was E if there was no tuner at all. From there, by agreeing on a note you can tune a guitar by knowing the relationships . In this tuning, which is open G, it's going to be to get to this D to make a G note, which is the next one. I can fret the fifth fret and get an approximation of what the next note should be. Now, to get the next note in this tuning, I go up to the 7th fret and so and so, and so on and so forth. I go the 5th fret now, the 4th fret, and now I believe the 3rd fret. Nobody's doing this anymore. Everybody uses a tuner. This is a good tuner but it's not chromatic. It only has the major notes; it doesn't have some of the notes I'm needing even for this tuning here. You'll usually find a few notes on there that you'll trust. In this case, open G. The D string stays the same as constant tune. What you do is you take your handy tuner here either plug you guitar in or let the microphone pick up the note until it say in this case D a D note. The G note actually is a true G note so I can tune that one too. If you are going to go and buy a tuner these days and you know you are going to play a opening tune a chromatic tuner it gives you all the notes which include the sharps and flats it makes it very easy to tune any tuning. You don't really need it if you have a few notes

Tuning Techniques for Dobro Slide Guitar

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