Guitar Tuning Basics

Before you learn how to do that fancy guitar stuff that you have been yapping about these past few weeks. You should first learn a basic, a fundamental skill that is not that difficult but as important as anything else. What I am talking about right now is no other than “Tuning”. You heard it right. Tuning the guitar is as important as anything else. How can you suppose to produce a quality tone when your guitar is out of tune? See the weight of importance there? Common sense would tell you in the head that to learn guitar, must learn tuning.

Guitar Tuning Basics – How to do it

Basically, there are two major ways to do it. One is to base the notes on an electric piano (it never goes out of tune) or you could also use an electric tuner.  We will not fuzz about the tuning pipes and stuff because this is the digital age baby. So how to do it?

Using an Electronic Piano – all you have to do is to base the 6 strings to the following notes: 6^th – Low E, 5^th – A, 4^th – D, 3^rd – G, 2^nd – B, and 1^st – high E. notice the numbers; these are the strings and the letters are the notes.

Guitar Tuning Basics – how to do it on an electronic tuner?

All you have to do is to plug it directly to the tuner if you are using an electric guitar and wind the tuning pegs until the indicator tells you that it is tuned. You will know it when the dial is on the middle or sometimes other tuners have different methods of telling you so. But usually, it’s a dial that points to the middle which indicates that your string is already tuned. That’s guitar tuning basics.

Guitar Techniques

If you really want to improve your guitar playing, you must learn how to improve your guitar techniques. These are skills or methods of creating dynamics or variations of the usual tone of the guitar. They give color to the notes that you produce with the guitar. Imagine plucking a single note, its plain and boring, right? Nothing, monotonous. But when you apply vibrato to that single note that would be a different things. All of a sudden, that single note would be different, as if you have breathed life into it. That is the main purpose of these techniques.

Guitar Techniques – Hammer On and Pull offs

Now, let me share to you some guitar techniques that you would find very useful, especially in your guitar soloing skills. Now, before you get all jumpy on the mere mention of the words “guitar solo”, listen to me first. These two techniques are guaranteed to make every note you pluck much more colorful. A hammer on is done by plucking a single note and hammering the next one with your finger; that would be the finger that you aren’t using at the moment. It produces a different tone compared to the usual boring plucked note.

Guitar Techniques – Continuation

The pull – off is the reversed version of the hammer on. You make the note by pulling off your finger. Try to do this on several notes on an A Major scale. Experiment on it. You will see that it produces various results that would surely make you feel and sound good. See the effect? By just applying a couple of guitar techniques, you can see, feel and hear your guitar playing improve a little bit. What more if you know all the guitar techniques known to man? Conclusion: Guitar Techniques for Epic Guitar Playing.

They say, “Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”  If you have a musical instrument like a guitar for example in your place, don’t just let it rot in the corner.  If you love music, take a chance in learning the guitar. The great thing about guitars is that it is portable you can easily just bring it with you unlike the piano. It is much more affordable, and the most number of great musicians are also a guitarist at the same time. It’s never too late to learn new thing right? If you have nothing to do with your life, just wasting your time in nonsensical things, then why don’t you help yourself improve? I know there are a lot of struggling musicians out there. In poor places, kids who have real talent, it’s just sad knowing they can’t even buy their own guitar while you have one there letting it dust in your attic.  It doesn’t matter what age you are right now. Learning never stops in life. You will never know how music will change your life; how it will affect your relationships you have right now.