In this lesson you will learn to tune your guitar with a tuner and I will also give you some methods to tune a guitar without a tuner. Tuning your guitar is one of the most important guitar lessons you will ever have. Your guitar has to be in tune for anything to sound right, so while you are learning to play guitar you need to be in tune.
When you are tuning your guitar with a tuner, basically you just have to align the “needle” line with the center of the tuner for each string.
One important thing to know is that if your guitar string is sharp you need to loosen it until it is flat, and then tune back up to pitch.
If you don’t have a tuner you can use tune with the 5th fret. The 5th fret of the E string will be the same note as the open A string, so you can tune the A string to the 5th fret of the E string on your guitar. The same thing works for the A and D string, as well as the D and G string. When you get to the G and B strings, you have to use the 4th fret on the G string to tune the B string. When you are at the B and little E string you use the 5th fret again.
Tuning your guitar with the 5th Fret:
You can also use octaves to check that the notes sound in tune:
Another way I tune my guitar without a tuner is to tune to an open chord. A regular E major chord is a good reference for hearing whether or not your guitar is in tune.