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How to Tune Your Guitar By Ear

Tuning a guitar is one of the first skills a beginner picks up when they’re learning. Usually most beginners learn by using an electric tuner, but what did guitar players do before there were electric tuners around? Of course they didn’t play out of tune so there must be a way to tune your instrument without using an electronic device.

I’m going to teach you the two things you need to remember to tune your guitar by ear without using an electric tuner. Remembering these two things isn’t difficult, how ever it can take some practice to train your ear to hear things properly when tuning.

Here are the two things you need to know to tune your guitar by ear.

First: Any given string can be tuned to the string above it by playing the above string on the 5th fret with one exception

Second: The exception is the B string and the G string. When tuning the B string you must play the G string on the 4th fret not the 5th.

There you have it that’s all you need to tune your guitar by ear. Below is a video that explains exactly how this system works and also a complete example of tuning your guitar using nothing but your ear and the two rules outlined above.

Take a few minutes to watch this video and then go grab your own guitar. Practice makes perfect every time and I suggest you try this exercise each time you pick up your guitar for a couple of weeks to help train your ear.

You’ll find that when you first try this exercise it may be difficult to tell whether the string is higher or lower then the note you’re trying to tune to on another string. With practice you’ll learn to recognize a higher or lower note.

Watch the video below and give it a try for yourself.

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Building a Guitar Foundation – Beginner Lesson Notes on Each Guitar String.

Today I’ve got a beginner guitar lesson for you that is one of the most important primer & foundational lessons I think all beginners must learn. What is it? How to learn and understand the notes on each guitar string.

Unfortunately I find that too many beginners skip this part of learning guitar at the beginning in favor of learning to play chords instead. The issue is that chords are always more difficult to play the single notes. There’s the issue of having to train your hands to make new shapes and press on the strings. Then there’s the trouble of strumming at the same time you’re making and changing chord shapes.

I don’t mean for this post to turn into a rank on why you shouldn’t learn chords first, but I do want to point out that learning the notes on each strings should come before learning chords. After all, most people want to learn chords because they are the things songs are made of, but notes are the stuff chords are made from.

Let’s get to it!

The Notes

We have seven guitar notes, A through G. Of course there are sharps and flats in there but for now we’re only concerned with the major notes. There are musical spaces of course between each of those notes moving up or down.

EXAMPLE: There is a set amount of space between an A to a B note and then from a B to a C note and so on.

First we need to understand what makes up this space, and on the guitar neck it’s frets. Before I explain how many frets between each note let me explain a little to you about half and whole steps between notes.

Between all notes there is either a whole step or a half step. This concept comes from the piano. The jump from one white key to the next is known as a whole step. The few spots where there is a black key, that is where there is a half step.

All notes have a whole step between them except for B to C and E to F. This is where the black keys happen to show up on the piano.

To convert this to the guitar neck, each fret is equal to one half step. So to go up or down a whole step means moving two frets and a half step one fret.

The video below will better explain exactly how whole steps, half steps and the spacing between notes works. There is also an example of finding notes on the top three strings. After watching the video I suggest your grab your guitar and give this exercise a try on it’s own.

Memorizing the notes on each guitar string is something you should do as a beginner, but understanding why each note is where will help you much further at becoming a great guitar player.

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