How To Tune A Guitar

Video Transcript

"Alright we are back with Expert Village and we are going to tune our guitar. Because if it is not in tune it is going to sound horrible no matter how good you are. Okay it is very important I just went to a concert last night and everybody tuned it was weird before they played. So you have six strings on your guitar and I like to use this little guide at the end of my guitar it is called a electronic tuner. You can use a electronic tuner, you can use a tuning fork, something that they use back in the old days just banging on your knees with a piece of metal. It gives you a pitch but I'm going to use this to check my tuning. The first string the biggest string is called the E strings so I have already tuned so that makes it a little easy. The next string is a A string. The third string is the D string. The forth is the G strings. The fifth is the B strings and the sixth is another E strings which is essentially the same pitch as this just higher but you can tell it sounds the same. You can also tune the guitar to itself if you can get the first string and tune with something else. This would teach you a lot about the construction of the guitar. If I play the first string on the fifth fret one, two, three, four, five it should sound the same as the next string open. And it does and the same for the next pair of strings and for the next pair. The next pair is old ball it is the forth fret and the next string open and they should sound the same. The last one is back to the old deal fifth fret. So once again (playing guitar) that's it. Real briefly I would cover harmonics due to the physics of the guitar if you touch the string we would cover this later, it produces a charming sound. So if I touch the first string on the fifth fret and the next one the seven it should sound the same that is another way to tune and so far. That is tuning so that is very important we want to sound good so to tune up your guitars I would give you a few minutes and then we would come back and we would talk about the music alphabet. "