Learn Your Basic Guitar Chords after You Learn How to Tune Your Guitar

I know you’re very eager to learn the basic guitar chords so you can impress the girl of your dreams. Play the theme song of you and your long time partner on your anniversary. Captivate girls with your voice while playing your favourite guitar. Play in the Battle of the Bands of your university and hope to be crowned the new champion. Or you simply just wanted to know how to play the guitar for your personal amusement.

But before you can begin to learn the basic guitar chords, you should know that the guitar you are playing is in the right tune. The reason for this is because if you played the basic guitar chords in a wrong tuned guitar, it will sound differently. The benefit of knowing how to tune your guitar is if you are already familiar with the standard tune of the guitar, you can easily recognize off tune strings and tune it by yourself.

So just like any other guitar player would know, you too should know how to tune your own guitar.

Tuning Your Guitar with a Keyboard

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Using the keyboard is one of the easiest ways for tuning your guitar fast and correctly. There certain keys on the keyboard that corresponds to every string on the guitar for the proper tuning. The illustration below shows the correct key to be pushed for the proper tuning of every guitar string.

The “middle C” drawn below serves only as a basis for you to know exactly where the other keys are located on the keyboard.


Note: Tuning the guitar and piano is done by ear, so listen carefully and tune it right.

Another way of tuning your guitar with a keyboard 

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• The first thing you need is to tune the 6th string (thickest string) on the keyboard. 

• Place your finger on the 6th string in the 5th fret, then tune the 6th (with your finger on the 5th fret) and 5th strings (open string). 

• After tuning the 5th string, place your finger on the 5th fret of the 5th string. Then tune the 5th and the 4th string. 

• Next is to tune the 3rd string. Place your finger in the 5th fret of the 4th string. Then tune the 4th and 3rd strings. 

• For tuning the 2nd string, place your finger in the 4th fret of the 3rd string. Tune the 3rd and 2nd strings. 

• Place your finger on the 2nd string in the 5th fret, then tune 2nd and 1st strings. 

Other ways Of Tuning Your Guitar

We are now living in the world where everything you need is the internet. Just ask it and it will have the answers. If you don’t have a keyboard to help you with the proper tuning of your guitar, you can go to YouTube and search for “Standard Tuning of a Guitar.”

Or you can buy a “gadget tuner” where you can just clip it in the head of your guitar and all you have to do is to pluck each string and turn the tuning keys. This gadget will tell you how far you are from the right tuning of the string.

Practice tuning your guitar more and eventually you will master tuning your own guitar without the aid of tuning material/gadgets. Then you can start learning the basic guitar chords.