how to tune a acoustic guitar?

Question

i bought the guitar for about half a year but never tune it and i was trying to tune it today but i thought i heard a little click sound on the silver thing can anyone help me?


i don't want tune break it


thanks

i know how to tune a guitar but i dont know how much is too much because i was turning the silver thing and i thought i heard the string making funny sound and i don't want the string or the guitar to snap and i don't have a piano

Answer 1

A pitch pipe type tuner for guitar is easiest to use. Simply match the pitch of the individual string with the matching pipe sound. A pitch pipe type guitar tuner should be under $10. An electronic tuner is great, but sometimes harder for a beginner to understand.

Answer 2

There's a pretty easy way to tune all guitars, you just need a piano or keyboard to make sure it's on the right note (A, G#, ect). Here's what you do:

Take your guitar and play the A string (second thickest) and also play the A key on piano (between the center and right black keys in the set of 3 black keys, letters go up according to white keys from here and also down). Once you find the right octave to tune to, tune appropriately.

Next, to get the low E string (thickest) in tune, it should be 5 fret notes below the A string that you just tuned. Play the low E string on the 5th fret and play open A with it simultaniously and tune appropriately.

To get the D string in tune (third thickest) do the same thing; play the A string on the 5th fret and play with open D simultaniously and tune appropriately.

To get the G string (third thinnest, NOT talking about clothing here) do the same thing; play the D string on the 5th fret and play simultaniously with open G and tune appropriately.

But to get the B string in tune you must play the G string on the 4th fret note to tune. This is just the way guitars are and if you try to tune it differently the guitar will sound messed up.

To get the high E string in tune (thinnest) play the B string on the 5th fret note and play with open E; tune appropriately.

It's also pretty normal for acoustic guitars to have some good tension on the string when you tune them up but if you go too high they will probably start making those funny noises and things. Once you hear those noises I'd say stop, you've probably already gone over it by that point. As I said before a piano works great because of this; you know almost exactly where to tune your guitar as long as the piano is in tune.

Answer 3

You'll need a tuner most likely, and it sounds like that normally...it's because you haven't tuned it in a very long time...


alright... I'll revise what I said earlier... first off don't be scared of breaking the guitar, they are much tougher than you may think...

and if you break a string it's nothing big... just get a new pack of strings (something you might want to do anyway seeing as you've had the guitar for half a year)

and last here is a site that should help you tune your guitar (in the source box) the page I'm posting is a sample of how your E string should sound there are other notes on there too... you just have to hunt for them...

or if you don't want to hunt for the other notes you can tune your guitar be ear fairly easily... first off your strings go (E A D G B E) from thickest to thinnest... once you get your E in tune play the 5th fret of that string, that is an A so tune your next string (A) to match that sound... you keep doing this until you go to tune the B string (second smallest) here and only here you use the 4th fret on the G string to tune the B string... then once you get all the strings in tune check and see if your E strings match up... if they are close then you've done it right... good luck.

Answer 4

i have an accoustic. well, you can get an electric tuner, and they work well. you can tune it on a piano, making sure that the notes on the piano and guitar match. and you can tune it by yourself by putting ur thumb(left hand) on the first string on the fifth fret, and strumming the first string and second string, and if adjust it so they sound in tune. i know, its confusing, why dont you get a guitar teacher so they would tell you?

Answer 5

Just remember, you can tune a guitar but you can't tuna fish!

Answer 6

use a piano that is what I use or get tuner