Tuning Your Guitar

Go to Lesson

Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style

Excerpt: As you can imagine, tuning is extremely important with the guitar and any other instrument. Every guitarist needs to know how to do it, and how to do it effectively and quickly. There are different ways you can tune your guitar, using many references. You can use an electric tuner, a piano, or other instruments. Most importantly though, you need to be able ...

Media Length: 2:43

Go to Lesson

Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style

Excerpt: (Tuning Chart below) In the video, I show you how to tune your guitar using just your ear. Basically, you can tune your whole guitar using just your Low E string as a starting reference point. So that means that we'd need to make sure the Low E string is in tune before we start tuning the other strings to it. The best way to do this is by tuning it to an e...

Media Length: 4:14

Go to Lesson

Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Drop D tuning is when you make your Low E string go down a whole step to a D note. This tuning is a very popular tuning for 6-string guitarists who want to get a lower end with their guitar. I personally love this tuning and use it often in my songwriting. In order to tune your Low E string to a D note, first play your actual D string (the 4th string) as a ...

Media Length: 1:42