"Guitar-Tuning" Video Transcript

Video Transcript: Guitar Tuning

All right, we're going to learn how to tune a guitar. The guitar has six strings. And let's see the top one here, the highest string an E then we have B, and then we have G, then we have D, then we have B, and then we have low E. So we have a high E, and a low E.

Those should sound similar, they're octave apart. One way to tune the guitar to get these notes is if you have a piano, you can just go to the piano and hit these notes. And then with your ear, you try to match them. If you don't have a piano, somehow, you have to get these pitches, you can go right online, in your in, in what you can download, there's some sites that you go to, and then you just push the button that says E and it will make the sound. And then with this turner, it is going sharper, you try to match what you hear, so the computer will go. And your guitar will be up here. And you'll have to try to match the tune.

That's one way to go the way guitar people have been doing it for decades is and that's in your packet as well is they start with the lowest note. And if you have, if you just get the lowest note to be the right note, it is an E on the piano below E what you do is you take your finger and you cut off five frets, these these little lines, break up the frets. So the fret is not the line. It's what's in between. So this is fret 1 2 3 4 5. So we're at the fifth fret, you just press it down with your finger and you play it, and that should be the same note as the next string.

And then when that when you when you tune this fith string to the 6th, then you just go to the next one, it seems a little flat. I just tighten it in that one this one is now in tune, you go to the  next one. Those sound like the same note. And then the next one is a little bit different. You go one fret back so it's the fourth fret. Then finally, you go to the second string here has to match with the first string. This first string was way off, you go like this. So I'm listening to make those sound like one string. little flat. 

That's kind of the way guitar people have been doing it for a long, long time. But over the last 10 years, most guitar players and even the very best instead of going with your ear where there's a lot of air, people get just a $15 electronic tuner. The electronic tuner is great because if if your strings are reasonably close within a note or to be just playing the string, the tuner will tell you which string you're trying to tune and it has a little arrow when the arrow is at the top, it's in tune so I know what I have to do. If the arrow isn't quite at the top, I have to tighten the string a little bit. 

I just look to see the arrow go and when it's in the middle then it is in tune. Then I go to the next one and electronic tuner knows what string I'm trying to go for. So my hear was not quit as good as the tuner here. That's how you tune your guitar.