Summary: How to tune a guitar for finger picking; get professional tips and instruction from an expert on playing guitar and music theory in this free music lesson video.
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"STEVE ANTHONY: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Steve Anthony. I'm here in New York City. Today, I'm going to talk a little bit about some beginning guitar picking techniques. Well, as you may have noticed, we've knocked our guitar out of tune a little bit. So we're going to talk just a tiny bit about keeping your guitar in tune, at least, with itself. We're not going to worry about if it's in tune with anybody else right now because we're playing by ourselves. So as long we're satisfying ourselves, we're happy. So I'd like you to show the tuning in fifths technique, which is simply depressing the fifth fret of a string and playing it along with its neighbor. If they match, you're in tune. If they don't, you're not. So let's adjust this until we are in tune. I'm going to show you a harmonic technique where you just touch the string on the fifth fret and the neighboring string on the seventh fret and you can hear the harmonic disagreement there. So we'll just turn the tuning key until they agree. And now, we're tuned harmonically to ourselves."