Tuning an electric guitar should be done using a tuner. Consistently using an electric guitar tuner is one of the best practices that a beginning guitarist can follow. One way to understand the value of an electric guitar tuner is to look to professional guitarists. Most professional guitarists use an electric guitar tuner because they appreciate how important it is to be in tune and they understand that relying on an electric guitar tuner is the best way to get, and stay, in tune.
I played guitar for the first time when I was in college when a friend let me borrow his guitar. After a some time, the friend came over to look in on me. I strummed a few chords I had been practicing. He cringed. Because I had been playing so much, the instrument was out of tune, way out of tune. I had never played a musical instrument before so I lacked the ability to hear that the instrument had gone out of tune.
The list of alternate tunings is large and includes the following common ones: Dropped Tunings: Have the sixth (or largest bass string) tuned low relative to the other five strings. Depending on how low you need to go you may require a different guitar to accommodate the lack of tension in the string. E.g. A Baritone guitar.
Double Dropped Tunings: Have the sixth and first strings tuned down one full step.
It used to be that many people used the Boss TU-2 electric guitar tuner as their go-to tuner. There was a problem with the TU-2, however. It was only accurate to +/- 3 cents (a cent refers to 1/100 of the distance between consecutive notes). If you have a highly trained musical ear, you can hear a 3 cents difference. Making matters worse, when two guitarists play together, each guitarist usually has his or her own tuner. If they each had a TU-2 electric guitar tuner, the two guitars could be out of tune as much as 6 cents with respect to each other.
There are many cheap "entry level" tuners, but be careful, as you may end up frustrated by a tuner that is unable to correctly determine the pitch of your strings.
Despite the good accuracy, there were a couple problems with the Peterson strobe tuners, however. First, they were just downright expensive. Second, the quality of the product was not always high. There are a number of stories on the web where people have bought these tuners and they stopped working in relatively short order.
I played guitar for the first time when I was in college when a friend let me borrow his guitar. After a some time, the friend came over to look in on me. I strummed a few chords I had been practicing. He cringed. Because I had been playing so much, the instrument was out of tune, way out of tune. I had never played a musical instrument before so I lacked the ability to hear that the instrument had gone out of tune.
The list of alternate tunings is large and includes the following common ones: Dropped Tunings: Have the sixth (or largest bass string) tuned low relative to the other five strings. Depending on how low you need to go you may require a different guitar to accommodate the lack of tension in the string. E.g. A Baritone guitar.
Double Dropped Tunings: Have the sixth and first strings tuned down one full step.
It used to be that many people used the Boss TU-2 electric guitar tuner as their go-to tuner. There was a problem with the TU-2, however. It was only accurate to +/- 3 cents (a cent refers to 1/100 of the distance between consecutive notes). If you have a highly trained musical ear, you can hear a 3 cents difference. Making matters worse, when two guitarists play together, each guitarist usually has his or her own tuner. If they each had a TU-2 electric guitar tuner, the two guitars could be out of tune as much as 6 cents with respect to each other.
There are many cheap "entry level" tuners, but be careful, as you may end up frustrated by a tuner that is unable to correctly determine the pitch of your strings.
Despite the good accuracy, there were a couple problems with the Peterson strobe tuners, however. First, they were just downright expensive. Second, the quality of the product was not always high. There are a number of stories on the web where people have bought these tuners and they stopped working in relatively short order.
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