How to Tune Guitar Using a Piano

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais. On behalf of Expert Village, we are going to go over some guitar tuning techniques. Well alright, well when you're playing in an ensemble, there's usually going to be a piano with you and you have a good reference and be able to tune to that, which you probably should. And the piano notes are going to be spread over a three octave little grid for you on your guitar when you're tuning. So, like we're going to say, you have the "E" note, and then you have the "E" string. And then you have your "A" note, and you have your "A" string. You're going to have your "D" note, and you have your "D" string. Then you're going to have your "G" note, and you're going to have your "G" string. Then there's the "B" note, and the "B" string and then the "E" note, and the high "E" string. So if you just match up all those, you should be ready to rock in no time!"