How to tune a guitar for beginners

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Very often ask the question: "How to tune the guitar for beginners?" Everyone who knows how to play this popular instrument knows the answer to this question. By the way, you can ask them for help. If this is not possible, then there is a simple solution to this problem: you should buy yourself a tuner. With it, you can easily tune not only the guitar, but also any other stringed instruments. But first you need to know the pitch of each guitar string.

How to tune a guitar for beginners

The first string is tuned to the note "E" (marked with the letter "E" on the tuner)

The second string is the note "si" (B)

Third string should be G (G)

The fourth string is tuned to the pitch of the note "D" (D)

The fifth string belongs to the note "la" (A)

The sixth string is tuned to the note "mi" (E)

This is a classic tuning for acoustic guitars.

Please note that the strings start counting from the bottom up, the first string is the thinnest and is at the bottom, and the sixth, thickest is at the top.

How to tune a guitar for beginners with the help of a tuner?

You can tune your guitar withthe first or the sixth string, there is no fundamental difference. The tuner display shows a letter that indicates the pitch of the note. The strings should be stretched so that the letters correspond to their serial number: 1-E, 2-B, 3-G, 4-D, 5-A, 6-E.

Piano guitar tuning

Also an easy way if you have a piano, synthesizer or grand piano at hand. As mentioned earlier, each string has its own pitch, therefore, we press the corresponding keys on the piano and tune by ear. The first string is mi, the second string is si, the third string is s alt, etc.

Tuning your guitar with a dial tone

What if you don't have a tuner or a piano, then how do beginners tune a guitar? In this case, too, there is a way out. The main thing is to have an ear for music. First you need to find a landmark, i.e. note to tune to. The mobile phone will help us with this. When called, a sound comes out of the phone speaker, which has a certain height - this is the note "la", the same as that of a tuning fork. We memorize it by ear, then we clamp the first string on the fifth fret and begin to tighten or lower it to the height we need. After tuning the first string, you need to do the following:

The second string is pressed against the fifth fret, it should sound exactly the same as the first, that is, in unison.

The third string is pressed against the fourth fret and should sound at the same height as the second.

The fourth string is pressed against the fifth fret and sounds in unison with the third.

The fifth is pressed against the fifth fret andsounds at the same pitch as the fourth.

The sixth is pressed against the fifth fret and sounds in unison with the fifth.

Electric guitar may have different tunings depending on the strings and songs played.

Guitar Chords for Beginners

• A-minor (Am). The first fret is the second string, the second fret is the third and fourth strings.
• C major (C). The first fret is the second string, the second fret is the fourth string, the third fret is the sixth and fifth strings.
• D minor (Dm). The first fret is the first string, the second fret is the third string, the third fret is the second string.
• G major (G). The second fret is the fifth string, the third fret is the sixth and first strings.
• E-minor (Em). Second fret - fifth and fourth strings.

Several songs can be played with these chords, for example Viktor Tsoi's "A Star Called the Sun" (Am, C, Dm, G).