How to Use Qwik Tune Auto Guitar & Bass Tuner

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Steve Bauman with Summerhays Music. We're talking about the bass guitar today and we're talking about how to tune using a tuner. So if you're just starting out on playing the bass, it's a good idea to get a tuner. Just it'll save you a ton of time and headaches. Just get a tuner and while you're learning how to tune by ear, and how to tune to a band mate or whatever, you can just use this tuner and just very quickly get in tune without having to bother with anything just for the first few months to get used to it. But also tuners are a handy tool to have no matter what level player you are. So this tuner I have here is a Quick Tune tuner, Quick Tune brand, and it does the same thing as any other brand of tuner. They're all just different, maybe a different display or some little differences. Some might have a metronome on it, different things like that. But a tuner is a tuner. And it's just a way of getting you into the right pitches. So first you need to know the names of the strings you're tuning. So this is a low E, this is A, D, and G. And that's what, that's the note that sounds when you play these strings open. So the first step is to just get plugged in out of the input on the bass guitar into the input of the tuner. And so then just play a note and let it ring out nice and strong. And first on this tuner, it puts a square around the note that it is sensing. So the frequency that you're putting into here, it's going to be able to judge what note you're in. If it's saying the wrong note, if it's not saying an E when you're trying to tune an E, then you're not even in the right range. So you need to get in the right range first so that you're tuning the right note. And once you're close enough for it to know that you're tuning an E, then if you're a little sharp or a little flat the red lights on either side of the green light will come on to indicate that you're flat or sharp. So what you need to do is to bring that E pitch into tune. So you want to get this needle into the middle and to make the light turn green. And sometimes you'll pass it up a little bit, you'll over shoot it, you need to bring it back a little bit. But you just kind of toy around with it until you can get it to where it's as close as possible to where it's staying in tune. Repeat those steps for the other three strings and you'll be ready to go. This is Steve Bauman with Summerhays Music and summerhaysmusic.com."