this might sound weird...but you must first knw im quite a newbie
i just bought a tuner. and went home..tried to tune it..and i proably make the strings too tight it broke..the 2nd and 3 rd string. i read the instruction and it says if i pluck the 6th string which is E. there are 2 things.the red light must appear at the 6E/1E (which means the 6th string or 1st string E) and the other light must be green. if the light is not green...say its indicating the #(sharp) i have to tighten and if its b(flat) i gotta tighten...mine was b(flat) and i tighten...i check..still b....io check...still b...tighten till broke...wth man...or dont tell me its the other way round? b to loosen and # to tighten?
btw...im from singaporean and can any singaporeans tell me if penisular's guitar shopping area sell cheap strings?

With the high E string, it should sound the same as the 5th fret on the B string. Regarding the loosening and tightening, you must have tightened it a lot to break it :P .

If it is sharp you'd want to be loosening it since sharp is always higher pitched than flat. Bb which means B flat is note. If you're tuning say the B string and it says its flatter that means you want to tighten the tuning peg.

You'll just need to hear what pitch the strings are on a tuned guitar to give you the general idea whether you need to tune the strings up or down in pitch. Usually after you've tuned a guitar and haven't played it for a few days, the strings usually go flat so you just need to tweak them up in pitch very slightly.

Strings are always cheap no matter where you go. Less than $5 usually.

Just go to the store and grab the single high E string, then go online looking for re-stringing instructions. Best of luck. :)

Beginners should really tune from a sound source rather than using only a electronic tuner. Because your ears aren't tuned to what each string sounds like. With an electronic tuner, you have nothing to compare to if it is out of the electronic tuner's range.

wow Huan your guitar tuner sounds really complicated!

the easiet way to tune (i think) is to use a tuning fork which gives you an A and then tuning al other strings according to the A(5th) string

breaking strings while tuning is really common with people that don't have as much experience doing it mostly because they turn the wrong tuning peg ...however...it may be because your tuner thing is messed up or the notes of your strings were out of the tuner's range

new strings shouldn't cost much at any music store unless you go for really nice ones

good luck with your tuning!

haha! i sooo did that to my school guitar XD

everyone messes around with other ppl's guitars at school and someone untuned mine for fun...when i tried tuning it back i kept turning the wrong peg and couldnt realize that the sound was never changing until the string snapped, thats when i found out i was reaching for the wrong peg and broke a string below the one i was trying to tune XD man, what a silly mistake XD

and yeah, that tuner sounds really complicated, i have one where the letters EADGBe are at the top and when u play a string a box appears around the string letter (or whichever is closest to its sound) and a meter comes up. you keep playing the string and turning the pegs until the meter reaches the middle of the tuner. its pretty easy to use for a beginer.

you dont need to know your sharps and flats yet to tune your guitar, just go for the right sound for now =)

I think the description was more complicated than it really is. Its probably a standard electronic tuner, tune up or down depending on how sharp or flat the note is.

Wow... thats like seriously bad luck. Hahaha, good luck trying to find a replacement string and retuning. Haha. Maybe you could go to a friend or somthing and ask for them to tune it for you. Haha

this is so sad.

Its just a broken string, no big deal :P XD

broken strings aren't sad!

it's actually kind of nice that you've experience breaking strings and changing strings already because you'll have to get used to it soon :lol:

at one point i had to change my guitar strings like...once a week whether they were broken or not because of exams and performances...THAT was sad...

just put a couple new strings on and you'll be good to go :)

dun use guitar tuner la.. learn to tune by ear.. tuner waste alot of time.. juz go online and download a sample of a low E note.. then use that note to tune the whole guitar using the 5th fret 4th fret trick.