From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
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How to tune your guitar
From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
How to tune your guitar
(gentle rock music) - All right, now let's go over each of the strings. I'll play each open string for you so that you can tune to them as a reference. Let's start out with the thickest string open, E. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) The next string is A. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) The next string is D. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) Next is G. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) The second to thinnest string is called B. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) And finally, the thinnest string here is E. (guitar string vibrates) (guitar string vibrates) All right, so when tuning the guitar, you can certainly use an electronic tuner, and that makes things very easy. Usually it will either give you a needle to go right or left to show you if you're too high or too low, or it will show you LED colored light to tell you when you're in tune or not, but it's also important to be able to tune using your ear…
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