How to Tune a Guitar Without a Tuner for Beginners | Guitar Tips

Learn this step-by-step, easy-to-follow method for tuning your guitar without a digital tuner. This can come in handy when you don't have a tuner or the battery has gone dead. Tuning your guitar by ear is also great for your ear training.

[rubydog]

hey. tune each string from top to bottom until you hear them perfectly in tune, then tune relative lower strings to the higher string down until you hear 4 clashes a second. this gives you a nice tempered tune that compensates well and plays well.

[rae]

I'm pretty happy with myself, I figured out this method on my own after learning the concept of notes step/half steps. I did get stumped by the low e string, but I guess I'll need an external source until I memorize how it should sound. This gave me a confidence boost, as I'm pretty insecure about my guitar playing.

[ayamerrouane]

Thank you!! I was able to successfully tune my daughter’s first guitar!! Can’t wait to see her face when she sees it on Christmas morning 🎄❤️

[eleanorwayland]

You are the best really I gave up on learning how to tune my guitar by myself until this video got randomly recommended to me. The best teacher ever

[ilera]

NEVER tune your guitar without getting the low E tuned correctly to pitch. This is going to program your ears to associate the wrong pitch to each string.

[redapplemusicofficial]

this actually helped me
THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[Jivi_Galaxy]

Awww 🥺 sir you are really kind. You give me some energy. ❤️ I stopped my guitar lessons for months now I'm starting again 🤗 it was my birthday from dad. 🤗

[clintonsavage]

This all well and good if you're only tuning to play by yourself. In that case though, I only use the fretted method for tuning the B string, for all of the others I use the 5th fret harmonic on the lower string and the 7th fret harmonic on the upper string. This keeps them both in neutral state instead of one string with extra tension on it.

[jinreitsung]

Many thanks !! I dont know why the heck when I use Guitar Tuna or other tuners and when I try E the tuner shows the A or G, I remember an old man that just with his ear would tell when good or not and I want to trust my ears better

[aqeeftaa]

I always tune by an tuning app, I never tune by ear, but after watching this video I will. This video is really helpful

[tshegofatsothejane]

Thank you sooo much. I used Fender Tune to get the 6th string right, and then tuned the rest using this method :) And to double verify that the other strings are in tune, I use Fender Tune again once I'm done with each string.

[hounddoggurxi]

I tried practicing this at home by messing with the tuner. and arranging them like a rubics cube later on. this is my method to train my ear. and it works fine wine.

[marybrum]

thank you so much I just got my first guitar and I dont know how to tune it and I don't have a tuner this really helps me alot!

[emilyjeffrey]

Took me so long to find this method of tuning !!!! It’s how I learned as a young one, and I remembered, but couldn’t remember which fret to tune on !!! Ugh thank you for this !!!

[sachertorte]

I play guitar and sing for the last 30-35 years and I always tune my guitar by ear. I just need the E or A sometimes, but not very often. And then play the few strings of the chord to see if it is ok. I already have the 6 strings "in my ear" so to speak. But this is a very good video.

[UmVtCg]

A couple of decades ago I didn't have a tuner. I tuned the E or A string to a record. Later I got one of those whistle tuners but the 5 fret method was way faster by then.

[Spikethepurpledragon-grrn]

I actually cannot believe that you managed to teach me. I have been looking at sooo many videos and I simply could not understand any of them. THANK YOU!

[LiteralGhost]

Got my guitar for Christmas and I feel like I already know what Imm doing. Thanks mate :]

[christianfruhauf]

Great end of your speech... “life is short”... Excellent! You’re right and so kind, really... So much appreciated! Thank you!

[newsforyou]

Thanks alot i been using apps for years, everytime i tune it, it tune too tight that help alot, i give you the like you deserve it.