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Basic Guitar Tuning - Tuning a Guitar

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Tuning the guitar
with a piano

Of course this assumes that the piano is in tune. Sometimes trying to tune a guitar to a piano that has not been tuned in years can do more harm than good.

 

 

 

 

 

open strings of the guitar on the piano

* One important thing to know about the guitar, especially if you have played another instrument. Music for the guitar sounds an octave lower than where it is written. If you try and tune the guitar to the piano thinking that they are exactly the same, you will break all of your strings. You would be trying to tune the guitar an octave higher than where it should be.

Middle C on the piano is written like this

middle C on the piano

Middle C on the guitar is written like this

middle C on the guitar

back guitar pick Page 2, Tuning the rest of the strings of the guitar

Page 4, using a pitch pipe to tune a guitar forward guitar



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