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Hi! I’m Nate Savage and today, I'm going to teach you to tune in your guitar to itself if you don’t have a tuner readily available.
So let’s say your guitar is really out of tune. Let’s say one of your strings is close so let’s say our E string is close relatively. What we’re going to do is use that note as a reference note to get all of our other strings in tune. So the first thing you’re going to do is take any finger put it in the 5th fret on the E string. Play that note. It’s an A note. The next string over is an A note as well or it should be. So hit that note on the 5th fret and then hit the next string over. That’s the way out.
Those two notes sound the same but they don’t. From my ears, it’s telling me that this note needs to come up. So I hit both notes and then adjust this one accordingly in the fifth string. It’s very close. Then you’ll going to do the exact same thing on the next string over. So take you’re A string that we just got in tune, hit the 5th fret, and play that string.
And by the next note over, next string over open. That’s really out too. So play both of those notes then adjust your D string accordingly. It’s still a little bit sharp. One more time, too far. That’s pretty close. Those sounds kind of the same. Go the next string to the exact same thing 5th fret on your D string, hit that note, next string open. That’s the really out. Adjust accordingly, that’s good. And now here it’s where your tuning method changes just a little bit because of the way our guitar is tuned.
You’re going to go to the 4th fret on the G string. Fret that note, and then play it. Then play the next string, the B string open. Those two notes should be the same. Then adjust accordingly and it has to come up. Let’s try again, a little more. It’s pretty good, it’s pretty close. The last string set we’re going to work on is we’re going to put any finger on the 5th fret over B string, hit that note and hit the high E string, real low. Adjust accordingly. It’s not quite enough.
[Demonstration]
Way better. Way closer to be in tune. So that’s just one of the methods you can use to tune in your guitar when you don’t have a tuner or piano, or tuning fork or something like that available to you.
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