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When you attempt to tune your guitar with a piano assuming that they are the same, you may break the guitar strings. Tuning a guitar is done to ensure that you produce the correct note on the proper string.

Guitar strings can vary in size and therefore differ in frequencies. When you start tuning a guitar, you will notice that the sound is almost the same but sounds deeper.

Stringed instruments like the cello, mandolin, and violin are tuned with fifths. Then there’s the guitar, a very popular instrument tuned in a somewhat peculiar sequence of ascending perfect fourths and a single major third.

Here are some easy guidelines that explain guitar tuning. The open strings of the guitar from thickest to thinnest are listed below:

E – the thickest or lowest sounding guitar string is called the 6th string A – is the 5th string D – is the 4th string G – is the 3rd string B – is the 2nd string E – the thinnest or highest string is the 1st string

The most common method for tuning both electric and acoustic guitars – and the one you would use when no other instrument or guitar tuner is available – is the Standard Guitar Tuning Method:

Step 1: The E String Tune the bottom E as accurately as possible. It is usually already in tune since it is the thickest guitar string and less likely to detune compared to the other strings. If you have another musical instrument like a piano (which stays in tune for a long time), you can tune it to the first E below middle C. If you don’t have an instrument, just try to get it as precise as you can. What matters when you’re playing is that the guitar is in tune with itself and with any other instruments you are jamming with.

Step 2: The A String Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the bottom E string. That is an A note. Keep your finger on that fret. Now pluck the fifth and sixth strings one after the other, carefully adjusting the fifth string’s tuning peg until the two notes are identical.

Step 3: The D String Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the A string. That is the D note. Tune the fourth string (the D note) to match this.

Step 4: The G String Position the first finger of your left hand behind the fifth fret on the D string. That is the G note. Tune your G string to match this note.

Step 5: The B String Place the first finger of your left hand behind the fourth fret (note that the B string is the only string that originates from a different position, the fourth fret, while the others are from the fifth fret).

Step 6: Tuning the E String Place the first finger of your left hand behind the fifth fret on the B string. That is the E note.

Music is about sound. Music has a profound impact on people’s lives. For example, playing the guitar creates beautiful music that can soothe anyone’s heart and soul.

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