Two ways to tune your guitar at home

Many boys and girls have an unbridled desire to learn how to play the six-string guitar. And I must say, pretty quickly grasp the basics of this art. Everything seems to be nice, if not for one “but” ... Any guitar (acoustic or electric) has the tendency to be upset, but not because she is bored with you, but rather, on the contrary, because you play a lot ! What to do in this case? Of course, tune it! But what if a full setup is required? After all, this is a separate lesson that not all beginner guitarists can do. Do not worry, in this article we will tell you, friends, how to tune your guitar at home.

As a consolation, I would like to note that the inability to independently tune the guitar does not at all mean the inability to own it. For example, the sound of a piano is much more difficult to adjust. Many experienced pianists still do not know how to tune their own instrument, and this does not prevent them from performing on stage and gaining universal recognition from the audience!

How to tune your guitar at home

Bit of theory

There are two proven ways to do this. In this article, we will both consider them. The most important thing in tuning a guitar is to know and understand its simple mechanism. Know that the very first string, located at the very bottom of the fifth fret, is nothing more than a note called “la” for the first octave. Among amateur guitarists, there is an opinion that the mood of a six-string guitar will be considered correct only when this note reminds you of a telephone beep by its sound. In this case, the correctly tuned first, but already open (not pinched) string “e” (for the first octave) corresponds to the sound of a piano or tuning fork. If you have a hearing, then the instrument can be adjusted, sorry for the tautology, by ear. So, let's finally find out how to tune your guitar at home.

Method number 1: set up by ear

Immediately, we note that there will be nothing wrong if you do not quite accurately configure the "a" and "e" for the first octave. Adjust the first string as you can. In the future, you will get used to this sound. In addition, you will know firsthand how to tune a guitar at home with the same sound on your first string. To do this, hold it in the fifth fret (make the string closed) and achieve the appropriate sound. You can use a tuning fork.

Remember that tuning the first (lower) closed string is the most important and crucial moment in the whole process, because it is from “la” and “mi” that everyone else “dances”! So, when the first step is taken, the further becomes much easier. All other strings must also be clamped on the fifth fret, adjusting them already to the open previous one, achieving complete harmony (in unison) with it!

Attention!

The exception is only the third string! The fact is that it needs to be clamped not on the fifth, but on the fourth fret. It turns out that in this case it should sound in unison with the second string already open on the fifth!

Method number 2: customizable through a microphone

This method is much simpler than the first. There is no need to fully rely on your hearing. All that is needed is to install the appropriate program on the computer, which allows you to configure the guitar through a microphone. Finding such software is pretty easy. To tune your guitar through a microphone, do the following:

• connect the microphone to the computer;
• bring it closer to our six-string guitar;
• launch a preinstalled or online tuner;
• we start to extract open sounds and look at what the program shows us, that is, we tune a certain string to the corresponding note.