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Tuning Your Guitar

Learning to play music on your guitar is one thing, but a major part of the learning process is tuning your guitar. Tuning isn't really difficult so here are some quick steps to teach you how to tune the guitar properly:

1. First, determine if the guitar is in or out of tune. It's is out of tune if the chords are played but the sounds don't seem right, which means it's time to tune the guitar.

2. The sixth string is usually the string tends to stay in tune because it's the largest string and doesn't go out of tune easily.

3. When tuning the fifth string, place your finger on the sixth string on the fifth fret, and then strike the sixth string. Next, strike the fifth string. If the sound created isn't the same, make the fifth string tighter or looser, depending on how low or high the pitch has become.

4. Follow this same process on the fourth and third strings, placing the higher string on the fifth fret and striking it. Then strike the lower string and if they don't create the same pitch, either loosen or tighten it.

5. When tuning the second string, you can place the finger at the third string on the fourth fret and either tighten or loosen the third string to match the sound of the second string.

6. Placing your finger on the second string and press on the fifth fret will be the method to tune the first string and then you can strike and follow by striking the first string open. Either tighten or loosen the second string to match the sound of the first string.

7. To check to determine if the guitar is in tune, all your have to do is play a chord. If the guitar still doesn't sound in tune, do the process again until you're able to fine-tune the guitar.

This is the easiest method of tuning a guitar. There are also electric methods to tune a guitar, but this traditional method is the most efficient.