Tuning your guitar

Now that you know that parts of the guitar, I believe it'd be a good time to learn to tune your guitar. When tuning your guitar, you're adjusting the pitch(highness or lowness of sound) of each string by turning the corresponding tuning keys. Tightening the String raises the pitch and loosening lowers the pitch.

I will refer to most concepts in the simplest form to understand so I'm going to teach you the standard tuning for guitars.


The 1st string is the thinnest string, or the E string.
The 2nd string is the string above the first, the B string.
The 3rd string is above the second, the G string.
The 4th string is above  third, the D string.
The 5th string is above the fourth, the A string.
The 6th string is the top string, also a E string.

1=E
2=B
3=G
4=D
5=A
6=E

A simple way to remember the strings starting from the 6th string down is (E)at (A)  (D)arn  (G)ood (B)reakfast (E)veryday. Eat a darn good breakfast everyday.


If you do not have a tuner available there are other ways to tune a guitar.
You can search the internet for videos playing the notes so you can tune by ear.
You can also try relative tuning if you think you can tune the 6th string to E accurately.
With relative tuning, you tune each string to the previous string.

If the 6th string is tuned to E then you can count frets until you reach A, which would be the pitch for the 5th string. You repeat this process with each string until all have been tuned.


There are many other tuning available and here are a few that you can try for yourself.

Minor Third- C, D#, F#, A, C, D#
Major Third- C, E, G#, C, E, G#

All Fourths- E, A, D, G, C, F
Aug Fourths- C, F#, C, F#, C, F#
Mandoguitar- C, G, D, A,  E, B
Minor Sixth- C, G#, E, C, G#, E
Major Sixth- C, A, F#, D#, C, A