ok. i got restringed by guitar...i dont wanna snap any more of them...and i heard if you can tune guitar by ear...you can tel the volume, which string is being play by hearing..makes you a pro.

i went to websites and they did taught how to tune guitar by ear but too complicating for me. could someone explain?

Tuning by ear needs only 1 information. That is, the correct tune of 1 of the 6 strings. Once you have 1 string tuned correctly you can do the rest.

Lets say you have the 6th string(fattest) tuned. To tune,

5th string- Press on 5th fret of 6th string. That is how your 5th string should sound like. Tune away.

4th string- Press on 5th fret of 5th string. That is how your 4th string should sound like. Tune.

3rd string - Press on 5th fret of 4th string. Same process.

2nd string(Important)- This time press on "4th fret" of 3rd string.

1st string- 5th fret of 2nd string

Phew......... :blink:

wow that'll come in handy oneday soon. Thanks so much! ^^

That is the general way of tunning...


But that also means if none of the strings are tunned correctly... It will mean all the strings will be tunned wrong... Cos our ears are only good at differentiating sounds... If there is nothing to compare... Its kinda hard to tune...

most importantly muz remember the position of the 6th and 1st string. if the tuning start off from the wrong string, the string will jux snap again. so be careful...

i see..but the best way to get is a tuner right? it will tune everything correctly.

Yup. Its always best to use a tuner- they're more accurate. It takes more practise for the majority to know how to tune the guitar properly...its better to tune with the tuner, unless you kind of want to look professional or something.

Over time you should develop a general sense of what an E should sound like. You'll always have to turn the tuner ever so slightly. You keep playing the string and tuning up and down untill the pitch is right.

there is no way to develop a perfect sense of what the notes are though, unless you have perfect pitch which you have to be born with. then you can tune it the way listed above without a tuner. using a tuner for all strings is the easiest thing to do though.

Might I add that I had a topic about this a while ago..haha, not that that matters really. What zenaku said is right, its not very likely you'll be born with a perfect sense of pitch. It'll be best just to get a tuner. They're not too expensive and they're quicker.

I think you should rephrase this.

With practice (such as tuning an instrumental over and over for many many times), you can develop a sense of roughly what a note sounds like. And for pros, it is possible to tune an instrument without a tuner because they did it so many times that they know what each string should sound like.

Our ears are not perfect, but they are good enough that we can match notes/tones without a source of reference (such as pitch fork, pitch pipe, piano, or any reference sound).

Electronic tuners are a lazy way of tuning, I think. A beginner should realize that an electronic tuner is an aid but he/she should not be complete depended on it.

Keep doing it and you'll get it. Like how you learn to play the C chord. This might be like learning an F chord but you know eventually you'll get it.