How to tune your guitar?
Electronic tuner:
The best way to tune your guitar is to buy an electronic tuner. There is a lot
of model of tuner and there are all good and they are not expensive. For more
information, click Musique Daniel Côté
If you want to tune your electric guitar, plug the guitar cable in the input.
Put the volume of your guitar at 10 (maximum), and the tuner will hear each string
as you play it and indicate if the pitch is too high or too low. You also have a
microphone on your tuner, you can tune acoustic and classical guitar.
- The biggest string is the 6th string and the smallest is the 1st string.
- 6th string= 6E or E
- 5th string= 5A or A
- 4th string= 4D or D
- 3rd string= 3G or G
- 2nd string= 2B or B
- 1st string= 1E or E
Relative tuning
You can use a pitch pipe or a tuning fork and usually your will hear the A note,
and you tune tune the string to each other.
- Press the 5th fret of the 6th string, and you must have the same sound as
the open 5th string.
- Press the 5th fret of the 5th string, and you must have the same sound as
the open 4th string.
- Press the 5th fret of the 4th string, and you must have the same sound as
the open 3rd string.
- Press the 4th fret of the 3rd string, and you must have the same sound as
the open 2nd string.
- Press the 5th fret of the 2nd string, and you must have the same sound as
the open 1st string.
Standard tuning
- 6th string E
- 5th string A
- 4th string D
- 3rd string G
- 2nd string B
- 1st string E
Drop D
-
- 6th string D
- 5th string A
- 4th string D
- 3rd string G
- 2nd string B
- 1st string E
Half step down
-
- 6th string Eb or D#
- 5th string Ab or G#
- 4th string Db or C#
- 3rd string Gb or F#
- 2nd string Bb or A#
- 1st string Eb or D#
Half step down, drop D
-
- 6th string Db or C#
- 5th string Ab or G#
- 4th string Db or C#
- 3rd string Gb or F#
- 2nd string Bb or A#
- 1st string Eb or D#
Whole step down
-
- 6th string D
- 5th string G
- 4th string C
- 3rd string F
- 2nd string A
- 1st string D
Whole step down, drop D
-
- 6th string C
- 5th string G
- 4th string C
- 3rd string F
- 2nd string A
- 1st string D
Open tuning for Slide guitar
Open A tuning
-
- 6th string E
- 5th string A
- 4th string E
- 3rd string A
- 2nd string C#
- 1st string E
Open E tuning
-
- 6th string E
- 5th string B
- 4th string E
- 3rd string G#
- 2nd string B
- 1st string E
