Hi, I’m Franklin Taggart. I’m a guitar player and a guitar teacher. What we’re going to be looking at right now are the parts of an electronic tuner so that you can become familiar with how a tuner works.
Most important thing I suppose would be the power button. In this case, this red button is the power button. When you push it, the tuner comes on and on the tuner itself there are several different keys. The two keys with the arrows by them are calibration keys. This allows you to set up a tuner with a piano or another instrument. And then at the bottom, you also have the ability to generate a sound [demonstration] that particular sound is an A note and the note just above that is a B flat note for instruments like trumpets and clarinets.
On the tuner itself, there are three LED lights. One is green and two are red. The green one indicates that your string is in tune. The light on the left hand side of the tuner is the flat light. The light on the right hand side is the sharp light. If your string is flat, the red light on the left hand side will light. If your string is sharp, the light on the right hand side will light. It also has an LED display that shows like a needle going across. It’s like an animated needle that focuses when you generate a tone. Also, on the screen is a display of the note name that you’re closest to and also the pitch that you are tuning to. In this case, it is A 440 hertz. The other part of the tuner that you need to be aware of is the input jack. This is for tuning an electric guitar or an electric bass.
There are several different kinds of tuners that you can purchase, this one is just called the chromatic tuner, which means that it has all twelve notes in the western scale and the other types of tuners that you can buy are instrument specific. For instance, you can buy a tuner but specifically for guitar, it has the six notes in the tuner for a standard guitar tuning. You can also buy tuners for basses and also tuners that are specifically designed for any stringed instrument. This particular tuner also has a microphone built right in so that you can tune acoustic instruments with it as well. So, those are the parts of the tuner. Now, we’re going to go through and learn how to tune a guitar string.
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