How do you tune a guitar?

Answer 1

There are several ways....
1- Depending on your experience by hearing (But that's less likely since your asking!)
2- hooking it up with a guitar tuner that measures your guitar's tunes ( also both can be linked through a computer) does not apply to acoustic guitars
3- If you have guitar programs or any musical programs, i.e. Guitar pro, just make it play the scale and adjust your guitar accordingly...

Answer 2

Step 1: Make sure you have: guitar , tuner , hands , tuning pegs , guitar lead

Step 2: Place the guitar lead into the tuner & socket hole on your guitar

Step 3: pluck a string you want to tune , on your tuner there is a moving needle that will go to the left or right but should go to the centre*

* If it goes left it is too flat & right too sharp or vice versa.

Step 4: It is too flat & sharp then use your hand and turn the tuning peg to the left or right

Step 5: pluck it again and see if it in tune ... if not then keep turning the pegs and pluck each string until the needle on the tuner is in the middle

Step 6: Once all the strings are tuned correctly then you can jam.

Answer 3

well it easy ive got a guitar or u do is u know the black thing top of the guitar well use that and it shape as a key so keep messing with it intill u want the tune u want but reamber dont tune is loads and loads the same way cause the string will fall of lol that what happened to me still cant put it on
good look
lorna age 13

Answer 4

Start with the bottom string and tune it to E (if you want standard tuning). Then from there, either use the 5th fret to tune up the next string and keep going that way except from 3rd to 2nd string, where its 4th fret. the 5th fret of the string below should sound the same as as the open string. You can also use harmonics, the 5th fret harmonics and 7th fret, they phase if unequal but thats for an advanced player.

All else fails get a guitar tuner or tune to another instrument EADGBE starting from the bottom.

Answer 5

If you need to ask that here, you should probably go for EBEG#BE as you will get a major chord without making shapes. Follow the advice in the other answers about twisting the tuning pegs till the electronic gadget tells you it's in tune.

Answer 6

I use an electric tuner that "hears" the pitch of the open strings and tells me if they are sharp or flat for the note I require.

I have used a piano, in the past, to tune it as well.

When in a pinch, you can do standard tuning by finding the pitch for the low E string. Once that string is tuned, use the fifth fret to get the pitch for the next string. Repeat. The only exception is you fret the 4th fret of the G string in order to get the "B" for the B-String.

Answer 7

Send for a guitar tuner

Answer 8

buy a cool little device cost £15 ish
stand it on a table
select electric or clasical
strum each string a digital display shows how out of tune it is
it is soooooo simple
i love mine it was never in tune befor

Answer 9

with a tuner preferably, or get a buddy with a good ear...
I know you can use a method where u tune each string into the next one on the third fret.....but i am tone deaf so i wouldn't be able to give details

:)

Answer 10

by twisting the little knobly things on the end to tighten or loosen the strings if you can not do that by ear you can buy a gadget that will display the corect sound wave for each string