The Real Reason the G String is Always Out of Tune

[MusicisWin]

Best, most original meme from this vid gets a prize

[bluesnaggletooth]

“Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.” – Andres Segovia

[t.b.a.r.r.o.]

When a musician blushes from talking about "nuts", "G-Strings", and "lube" you know it has to be something he has experience with.

[akashicvizion]

"Old guitarists never die: they just lose tension in their G-string--" [You're welcome; Blessed Be, & Peace!! 🙏☮ ]

[jimtrantham]

I’ve been a professional guitar tech for over 50 years. I’ve been playing guitar for nearly 70 years. I’ve been giving this advice and using this advice the whole time. Additionally, the out of tune G phenomenon is worse with single coil pups…. This video is absolutely right on the money!!! Excellent advice……

[shockcityrocker]

The B string has always been the real pain in the ass, to me anyway.

[sagnhill]

Every time a G string is in tune an angel gets its wings.

[palemale]

I use a spot of lock oil in the nut slots, which has graphite in it - also stops the strings breaking so often - as the nut is a necessary seat for the string, but also a stress point as the strings may change in both directions, left / right and/or up/down, plus any friction by the string minutely moving over the nut by bending.

[flamencoprof]

If you tune a guitar using harmonics, starting at the fifth fret of the low E tuned to the A string, there is a jump at the G-B where the tuning differs by four frets and you can't use a harmonic. If you then start again at the high E and go down through the B to the G, they will not and cannot match. This is because the guitar fret intervals are spaced by a scale called "Equal Temperament", a mathematical ratio used for convenience to get all keys roughly right. Whereas using harmonics rather than the frets is using another tuning with whole number harmonics, or "Pure" tones. The clash between the two comes to a head at the G-B four-fret interval, which is not a natural harmonic interval.

[ninjaneer]

Ive felt self-conscious about tuning the G string my entire life. No joke. This video makes me feel eons better. Thank you.

[chefbanjo]

“Don’t use graphite if you live in a humid environment like Nashville.”
*laughter from Louisiana turns to crying*

[senseiruss]

I couldn't agree more! For rhythm and leads with little to no bending, a wound G string is stays in tune and intonation much better than unwound. And yes, bending is not recommended — it takes WAY too much effort and brings back beginners' callouses! GREAT video — entertaining, well shot and edited! Thanks!

[chuckmacnorris]

I think the main reason is that your ear will hear "just intonation" but your guitar is tuned to equal temperament tuning. So it matters what key you think G is out of tune with

[bronsonjohnson]

I feel like this was just Tyler excusing his “g-string” search history.

[cedricrickdelsol]

If this was Stevie T talking about nuts, you could sure as hell expect an ad for Manscaped

[simonkormendy]

Amongst all my guitars, the one guitar that has given me the least grief with regards to tuning instability, would have to be my Gibson-made Steinberger Spirit GT Pro Deluxe, it still goes out of tune a bit, but not by much, when Ned Steinberger designed his original series of headless guitars, he started from scratch and got rid of all the extraneous stuff, he also flipped the strings 180 degrees so that the tuners became part of the bridge, he re-designed the tuners so that they were gearless and "pulled" the strings up to pitch rather than wound them, it's a straight-pull gearless tuning system, which I think eliminates 90% of what causes strings to go out of tune, the end of the neck where the headstock normally would be simply anchors the strings, and a zero-fret serves to define the zero point of the scale as well as a nut, the Tuners are supposedly 40:1 ratio too, it's a wonderful guitar to play, balance is phenomenal, no neck diving, and the guitar only weighs 4kgs, but still sounds like a regular electric guitar.

[briano.]

I've been playing for 45 years and to this day it still gets me. I'll dink around with the B string thinking it's the culprit only to discover it's the freakin' G string! And yes, I do bend the living hell out of the G. I've tried a wound G before and hated it.
Guess we just live with it.
🎸🎼🎵🎶🧠🌌♾

[galladebutcooler]

Me, a bass player: I DO NOT HAVE SUCH WEAKNESS.

[Tessmage_Tessera]

I remember Eddie Van Halen saying that he always tuned his G string slightly flat on purpose, because he knew it would always end up going sharp on its own.

[mnpd]

Back in the late 1960's when I was playing with my high school band, ALL electric guitars I ever used or even laid eyes on used flatwounds. Some years later players wanted more "dirt" in their sound (so I was told) and wound strings became the norm. Recently, I see flatwounds are moving back into use. One thing I liked about flats is that the were a LOT more easier on the fingertips.