![]() To do this you must use your ear to match pitches, just as when you learned how to tune a guitar with the reference pitches above. Then you tune all the other strings to that string. The relative tuning technique requires that one string is already in tune. When you need a portable digital guitar tuner, there are products like the PitchBoy mini tuner that can fit on a keyring. Those guitar tools are also available as a standalone product for Mac and Windows as the eMedia Guitar Toolkit ($4.95). ![]() A digital guitar tuner is the most popular option, as they detect the pitch and show you visually to tune up or down to get in tune with a high degree of accuracy. Note that eMedia’s intermediate and beginning guitar lesson software includes a wonderful digital guitar tuner, metronome, chord dictionary and audio recorder. Next, you might want to try one of the other types of guitar tuners. You’ve learned how to tune your guitar with our reference online guitar tuner. To learn more about how strings should be wound see the how to string a guitar videos. The pictures to the left illustrate how the string should be wound for steel-string and nylon-string guitars. These instructions assume that your strings are wound around the tuning pegs in the standard direction. Turn the tuning key away from yourself to raise the pitch. To adjust the pitch of a string lower, simply turn the tuning key for that string towards yourself. Make sure you know how to tune a guitar string higher or lower in pitch. This helps keep the string from getting caught in the nut and going out of tune as you play. It’s best to start with the pitch a bit lower and tune the string up to the reference pitch.
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