Tips ' n ' Tricks

TIPS
Warming Up String Choice Finger Nails Choosing a guitar
String Longevity Tuning Your guitar Learning to play Holding a note
Strumming Chords Tableture Tricks
Guitar Riffs Guitar Tabs Chord Tabs Scales

Tuning your guitar

There are several ways to tune your guitar.
Firstly you can use a pitch tuner.
These are cheap enough and produce a harmonica like sound for each note to tune your guitar to.

A second method is by using an electronic tuner. These listen to the pitch of a string and tell you if the note is flat or sharp, by use of LEDs or a meter, and therefore to tune the string up or down. These are more accurate and unless you have a good ear are the recommended method.

The third method is less accurate but the quickest and easiest if you have nothing else, by ear. For this method you might need to find something that will produce a known note. One method is to play a song which you know what key the song is played in. Ideally find something in E. Once you have tuned your thickest string to E the use the following to tune the rest.

The strings are tuned E A D G B E. (Every Aging Dog Goes Bald Eventually) So once you have tuned the thickest string to E hold your finger on the 5th fret and tuned the second string to the same note. Repeat this to tune the next string and so on. Until the B string however. Use the 4th fret on your G String this time and then back to the 5th fret to tune the top E string. Check now that the top and bottom string produce the same note (2 Octaves apart).
 Click on a machine head to tune your guitar