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Title: How Do You Tune Your Guitar?
Post by: funkStrat_97 on September 08, 2007, 11:30:11 AM

Petty simple question.  But there seems to be quite a few variations on the theme and I'm only talking about standard tuning.  Some people just go with what the tuner says, but there are those who tune to specific offsets or other intervals.  Has anyone here found any one method that is better than the other?
 

Title: Re: How Do You Tune Your Guitar?
Post by: gtrdave on September 08, 2007, 10:41:19 PM

I tune with a tuner but I'll check it and tweak it by harmonics if needed.

Harmonics tuning I use is:
tune low/wound E string.
tune A string by matching 5th fret harmonic on E to 7th fret harmonic on A
tune D string by matching 5th fret harmonic on A to 7th fret harmonic on D
tune G string by matching 5th fret harmonic on D to 7th fret harmonic on G
tune B string by matching 7th fret harmonic on low/wound E to open B string
tune E plain string by matching 5th fret harmonic on B to 7th fret harmonic on plain E

Title: Re: How Do You Tune Your Guitar?
Post by: JayP5150 on September 10, 2007, 08:02:27 AM

Honestly, I'm weird about it. I'll use a tuner, but never fully trust it.

I'll get my high E in tune.
Tune the B by fretting at the 5th fret (unison with the E), and also by the E and B open.
Tune the G by fretting the B and E in the 3rd fret and making sure there's nothing ugly there.
Tune the D with the Octave at the B string, 3rd fret.
Tune A with the octave at the G string, 2nd fret.
Tune E string with the octave at the D string, 2nd fret.

My friends used to hat that I do it this way, but I feel like it just gives me a better range of intonation that just using the 5th fret thing, since I'm tuning with parts of chords.

I'll use harmonics, too, especially on the bass.