Facts You Never Knew About How To Tune An Acoustic Guitar

Guitar is the most fashionable and sometimes essential musical instrument now-a-days. We can play almost all the songs of any culture through a guitar. So, we can feel its importance in the world of music. When we talk about a guitar, the first and the common problem we face is tuning a guitar. Now the question will appear why do we need to tune a guitar? Different things can affect your guitar’s tuning. For some example temperature changes, humidity changes, if the guitar is placed outside of the bag or sometimes people change the strings without having any kind of knowledge. When you can’t get your expected sound/tune from your guitar, you need to tune it for better sound quality.

Before starting the tutorial you need to know some basic things. This will help you to understand the tutorial properly.

The first thing you should need to know is how the strings are arranged in an acoustic guitar. Strings of the guitar are arranged in ascending order from thickest to the thinnest one. We are named these strings as E-A-D-G-B-E. It’s good to start the string tuning from the sixth string.

Another this we should know before starting is Flats and Sharps.

So, these are the things we should learn before going to the field. If you complete the above, we are now good to go.

By this tuning method, you need to tune the guitar with the help of your ear. So, let’s discuss how a pitch tuner works. Pitch tuners work as playing a pitch of each string and you have to match each note with your ear. So, it’s very important to have the concentration on each note you are playing. Now, you should take a chair and sit with your guitar because we are now going to tell you how to tune your guitar with a pitch tuner step by step.

Now-a-days it is a lot easier to tune a guitar by the grace of our technology. We can simply strike the string and the app will show us that in which position our string is now. If the string is flat then we need to tune up the pitch and if the string is in sharp then we need to tune down the pitch. So, let’s have a look how we can tune a guitar by a mobile application.

Tuning a guitar you should consider some consequences. Take a peaceful environment while tuning a guitar. Otherwise, it will disturb you while tuning. 

Don’t tighten the string too much. Because it may cause a damage to your string as well as your guitar. 

Guitar is always a pleasant musical instrument to all of us. Almost all the music festival/concert comes with a guitar. But tuning a guitar is very important to get the desired sound. For beginners, I will suggest you use a tuning app for tuning a guitar. Because only a specialist can perfectly tune a guitar by listening the pitches by ear. So, you just need to get an app and start to tune your guitar. Have fun! Good luck!