How to Tune a Guitar to Standard Tuning

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Summary: When tuning a guitar to standard tuning, the descending strings should be E, A, D, G, B and E when played openly. Find out how to use a tuner to make sure that a guitar is in correct tuning with help from a professional guitarist in this free video on tuning a guitar to standard tuning.

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By Sandy Poltarack
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Sandy Poltarack is a professional guitarist who is also an adjunct professor at Miami-Dade College, Wolfson, North and Kendall campuses in Miami, Fla. Poltarack also teaches at his...read more

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"Hi this is Sandy Poltarack and I'm here on behalf of gladesguitars.com Hi, in this clip we're going to be talking about how to turn your guitar to standard tuning. I'm using this tuner to help me get the first pitch that I'm going to tune to and remember the guitar is well it's six strings. These are the low sounding strings. These are the low sounding strings and whoever numbered the strings started with the highest sounding string. This is one, string two, string three, four, five and six and what we're going to do is we're going to play this low string. This pitch is the E and you can remember elephants and dogs get big ears. That's the name of the open strings, E, A, D, G, B and E and if you get this string in tune with the tuner, that's an E then we can find the other pitches by playing notes along the lower strings here. This is at the fifth fret of this E string we get the same pitch as the open A string here it is and I'm going to match that pitch and I have my tuner here which is also telling me that that string is in tune and then again I'm going to go to the fifth fret of the fifth string and play that note and it's going to match the fourth string, then again from the fourth string I'm going to go to the fifth fret on that string on the fourth string, I'm going to play that note and that's going to match the note on the third string. Now there's an exception. When I'm going to play the matching pitch on the third string I only need to go to the fourth fret, play that note and match it to the open second string and then I go back to the fifth fret on the second string which gives me the note that I can tune the first string with. Now in case there are some strings that happen to be out of tune I'm going to detune this string and you'll hear the difference. Here's a string that's in tune with the next one. This is the D, here's the G but you can hear that's out of tune. I'm going to need to raise that up to match the pitch and that's matched now. O'kay thanks for watching the clip. This is Sandy Poltarack."