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The most important part of a guitar is its tuning.Here i am only gonna teach you about standard tuning.It is very important for a person to learn how to tune his guitar.For example say you are at your friends party, and someone hands you a guitar and asks you to play, if you can not tune it you can not play it even though you might be a great guitarist.There are two tools you can use when tuning your guitar. One is an electronic tuner, the other is your ear.Remember you wont have your electronic tuner all the time.Also tunning by ear helps devolup your ear, you start to understand different pitches.

Here is the pattern you must follow to get your guitar in standard tuning(E A D G B E) starting from 6th string(thick one).

6th string, 5th fret and 5th string open
5th string, 5th fret and 4th string open
4th string, 5th fret and 3rd string open
3rd string, 4th fret and 2nd string open
2nd string, 5th fret and 1st string open

Now as you will notice that the note is A when i say 5th fret of 6th string, hence when you make this note and your 5th string sound same you tune your 5th string.Be careful when you do this as if even one string is not tuned properly then all the following strings will also not be tuned.

Another way to tune is by octaves. An octave is the interval between two notes with the same name. If you played the C major scale: C D E F G A B C, the two C’s are one octave apart. You can tune with octaves as follows:

6th string open and 5th string, 7th fret
5th string open and 4th string, 7th fret
4th string open and 3rd string, 7th fret
3rd string open and 2nd string, 8th fret
2nd string open and 1st string, 7th fret

With all said you have your guitar tuned.One question that arises is “How do i tune my 6th string?”.Since if your 6th string is not in tune then u wont be able to tune the rest of them as well.When you tune the rest of the strings from the 6th, it’s called “Relative Tuning.” To tune your 6th string you will need another intrument like a piano. As without this you will be in tune with yourself but not with other instruments. Also playing chords and scales can help you decide what is the tuning(ie after you can identify there sound).

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