How to tune a guitar without an electric tuner?

Question

Hey I need to know how to tune a guitar without an electric tuner. I am so dependent on the electric tuner that without it, i won't be able to tune the guitar. I heard of the fifth fret method but i don't know how that works. Can anyone explain it to me or show me any good sites that can explain it to me? thank you!

Answer 1

ok. get your guitar. lets number the strings 1-6, and make the top string number 1, and the bottom string number 6. start from the top. hold string 1 down on the fifth fret and strum the string under it openly .. tune string 2 until it sounds the same as the one above it,(the one being held down at the 5th fret). now hold string 2 down on the fifth fret and strum string 3 openly.. tune string 3 until the strings sound the same.. now do this method to tune all the other strings, except for the 5th string. for this string, you use a similar method, but you hold string 4 at the 4th fret, and strum string 5 openly, and tune string 5 according to the string above it,(held down at the 4th fret). then you follow the first method for string 6. ok this is right.. but it might take some effort to understand it :-P good luck! hope this helps

Answer 2

Since you have a tuner you can figure it out yourself. Start with the guitar in tune. Fret one string at a fret where it sounds the same as the next string. Do that for each string. Remember those places. Now you know the fret positons where each string goes into the next. Now see if you can detune a string, then bring it back into tune by fretting the string next to it at that special spot.

Get to know the fret board.

or just search the internet for "guitar tuning"

Tuning by ear is not nearly as accurate as an electronic tuner, and not nearly as fast.

Once you can tune by ear you'll still us the electric tuner, even the pros use tuners.

Answer 3

I use the fifth fret method all the time. First you need to have your lowest string in tune to low E (twelve white keys below middle C on a keyboard instrument). Now press that string at the fifth fret and tune the next string up to match that note. Continue tuning each string to the fifth-fret note of the one below it EXCEPT: tune the B string (second highest) to match the fourth-fret note on the string below it.
Of course, you do need to be able to tell by ear when two strings are in tune...I'm a little tone deaf so I ask my sister (who has perfect pitch) whether the notes match.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

First you pick up the phone and listen to the open line signal, which is A, so you tune your second-from-the-top string to that. Then you press the top string on the 5th fret and if it doesn't sound like A below it, you tune it up or down. Then you press you A string on the 5th fret and tune the next string to that - that'll be a D. Press D on the 5th and tune the next one - G. Press G on the 4th fret now, that's B - tune the next string. Press B on the 5th freat again, that's your high E - tune the thinnest string. Enjoy.

Answer 5

okay well you have to by ear be able to mak the low e in tune in order to do the fifth fret deal.

then once you have your e in tune go to the "a" on your e string (or the 5th fret) and strum it with the next string (the a string) that will get it in tune. you do the 5th fret up until tuning the "b" string you tune it with the 4th fret on the g...

im sorry if that is all confusing to you, but that is the way to do it..

Answer 6

Go sit down at a piano with your guitar and try to tune it by ear. That might be something that would help you as a musician.

Answer 7

try playing notes that you know the sound to