Acoustic Guitar Standard Tuning

1 string e 4 the thinnest 2 string b 3 3 string g 3 4 string d 3 5 string a 2 6 string e 2 how to tune a guitar.

Acoustic guitar standard tuning.

Strings two three and four stay the same. A few words about tuning in general. Free online guitar tuner from fender. Alternatively use these markers below.

Quick and easy youtube guitar tuner don t own a tuner. Standard guitar string notes. Your device will ask for permission to record sound from a microphone allow recording. Separation of the first high e and second b.

This lesson is excerpted from acoustic blues guitar basics available at the acoustic guitar store. Recorded in high quality with a fender telecaster electric guitar. Let s start by getting into open g d g d g b d from standard tuning. The guitar is a transposing instrument music for it is notated one octave higher than actual pitch to reduce the need for ledger lines in music written for the instrument and simplify reading.

A standard guitar tuner for tuning acoustic guitar use the buttons at the right side of the video to play the strings. Select standard or alternate tunings or customize your own tune for your acoustic guitar. Sick of those guitar tuning videos with distorted sound and or only play the note 2 or 3 times which doesn t give you enough time to properly tune each note. Tune your acoustic guitar with fender s free guitar tuner.

Standard tuning provides reasonably simple fingering left hand movement for playing standard scales and basic chords in all major and minor keys. Always use an electronic guitar tuner for any foray into an alternate tuning and for getting back to standard tuning but first make an effort to tune by ear tuning the strings to each other using reference pitches which may be fretted notes open strings or any available natural harmonics at the 12th.