How to Tune Your Electric Guitar | Guitar Tuner Standard Tuning E A D G B e

Use this Guitar Tuner in standard tuning for how to tune your electric guitar, or your acoustic guitar. It's easy to tune your guitar by ear, all you need to do is play along to tune your guitar strings to sound the same as in the video. Yes, this will also work for tuning an acoustic guitar, simply play along and match the sound that is in the video! Standard tuning on guitar is E A D G B e - this tuning is the same for electric and acoustic guitars.

[richardparker]

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[Undeadharibo]

I can tuning better my electric guitar with this video, than with my phone tuner program :|

[bigpapa]

This is the only video that has helped me properly tune my guitar🤘🏽

[marthakonadu]

this is gonna be really hard to learn cuz I'm used to the piano 😅

[angelaguinaldo]

It’s my first time having an electric guitar and I’m scared to touch the strings I think I’m gonna break it:(

[wanlongsanmarboh]

I cried listening to this. My girl cheated on me. I'm gonna send her this song.

[winglessfairy]

This was so useful for beginners thank you

[ImNotEd]

Exact video I needed, thank you for your help bro :)

[starxy]

im too scared to break the strings 😅
update because i saw that someone liked my comment: i tuned it without breaking it, i used guitar tuner (it’s a blue/purple timer looking thingy) and then i went over this video making sure it’s right and it’s right! didn’t break a string yet, and i’m still practicing guitar lol
also i recommend youdician if you like never touched a string instrument

[ironfire]

So do I just turn the silver knobs at the top of the guitar till each string sounds like that?

[airbrushgoddess]

Omg I bought a guitar off marketplace and the guy played it for me and it sounded good....let me say I don't know what or how he tuned it but it was so wrong after watching it tuned correctly 🤣🤣🤣 now maybe I can get the hang of this

[fruitbasketsz]

Easiest tutorial ever, took me a months to learn how to tune my electric guitar because my mind doesn’t really understand things quickly. (I also can’t focus with background noises, like someone talking.) But this was really simple and straight forward. Thank you!

[mistakenquan]

This is actually the only video on yt that actually helped Lmao, ty

[daveleary]

I watched another tuning video and they did C# F# B E G# c#. Why the difference?

[purlytpg]

Thanks i was about to die in mysic class because i have not clue how to tune an electric guitar- or any guitar for that matter im only good at piano

[ratbitch]

Just got an electric guitar today and it’s a very new experience since I’ve been only ukulele for 3 years

[clampy]

I recently got an electric and I'm really used to the acoustic. Do the notes on the acoustic similar to the electric because if so I can easily copy that onto my electric

[Fogertian]

Do you know how to intonate your electric/acoustic guitar with a deformation degree concept applied ?
Well, you are already near than you think.

Firstly, let's be clear with this wrong idea that is in our heads always: "My guitar now is in tune. I got the best tuner in the market !!!". Wrong!.
Even piano makers know the intonation is NOT perfect.

 Some notes need to be more sharp (or flat) than others in order to get a "perfect" piano tuned.
The fact is that the real world tuning that makes sense is made by a perfect "out of tune" system. Some notes are near to the pure note by fractions than others.

One fine example is given at the first frets of any guitar. There's too much tension applied at this point because strings are near to the nut and the action is too high (ex. acoustic guitar). Have you heard a perfect Am chord .... but you get a sour Em chord on the first frets?.

Tension is even greater with wounded strings at this point. Try to play for 3 or 5 minutes an F Major chord. Your strength in your fingers decreases and that chord start to sound like is not a complete F Maj chord anymore. Some strings ring and others are muted.

The concept of deformation degree applied on a string is related to it's gauge. The greater is the gauge, the greater is the tension at the first frets.
It's harder to track the strenght you apply on wounded strings.

Check your guitar is in tune with your electronic tuner. Now play a G note on the 6th string/3rd fret.
Check on your tuner how this G note goes sharp as you play soft or hard.
Apply little pressure until you hit a perfect G note. It's noticeable !!!!

Knowing this lead us to the conclusion that open strings notes are not good for tuning because these notes have ZERO deformation degree applied.
The best way to keep tension lower in a practical manner when you are tuning your instrument is to "relocate" the nut to get a low deformation degree at the wounded strings.

It' s a logic step you need to be aware of:

-Tune every string as usual at the 12th fret harmonics, then fret notes at the 12 fret, and check open string notes.
-Execute some wide bends slowly at the 12 fret and the 7 fret on every string jumping from one string to another for about 3 minutes.
-Now, at the 7th fret/6th string, tune to B slowly.
-Next, 7th fret/5th string, tune to E slowly.
-Shift to 6th fret/4rth string, tune to Ab slowly.
-6th fret/3rd string, tune to C# slowly.
-Shift again to 5th fret/ 2nd string, tune to E slowly.
-5th fret/1rst string, tune to A slowly.
-Repeat wide bends and tune again the same way until you don't need to tune after bends. This way you got the perfect balance, tension vs.  string gauge/lenght in every string. Your guitar NOW is "out of tune/in tune" by fractional notes at the right point on the fretboard with the lowest deformation degree when You fret notes.

Want to check how open notes are "in tune/out of tune" making chords sound sweet ?
Play a cowboy G Maj chord an pay attention on the G note on the 3rd fret/6th string.
Every note now is in a relocated harmonized-pitch due to the tension applied/wounded strings (Gauge)  relationship.

Ask the pros about it. Check Earvana nut, Buzz Feiten System, Guitars with fan fretboard.

This relocated spot tuning procedure [Virtual Nut With Balanced Gauge/Tension Tuning] works wonders on cheap acoustic guitars.

One final word: Have you noticed how hard is to record an acoustic guitar that You think is in tune?
And what about when you use a wide capo?.
Goes Sharp enough to make things worse?
"Devil is on details", said the guy that showed me to tune my acoustic guitar to the song's key .... every time I record a song. (?!?!).

Well, all that hell of "learning to deal with an acoustic guitar" is now .... in the past !

You're welcome !

Cheers.

[Drippy-Bob]

A guy who gets straight to the point I like this

[shanefartburger]

thanks for the video. ive been going through alot of live bs and i thought that it was about time i actually learned how to play the guitar collecting dust in my closet. get my mind off of things ya know