I have a guitar and i have been meaning to play it for a long time since i got it 2 years ago and i just got new strings on it and all and i am wondering how to tune it up cause i want to be in the music career since i play other insturments.
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Well many will say buy a tuner but really don't. We tend to forget how there are many apps on a mobile device that will help you to tune your guitar. I tuned my guitar tuner app called "GuitarTuna" which basically checks the sound of a guitar string you play on your guitar and lets you know whether it's exactly the sound it should be or if its simply a too high pitch or too low. I have tested to correctness of this app and it is bang on almost 100% accurate.
I have been playing guitar for roughly 1.5 years and I'm pretty good and absolutely love it. I tune my guitar with a tuner, preferebly a clamp on tuner called the SNARK. I picked mine up at a rather expensive place for about $15, so at a place like guitar center you could probably expect to pay around $7-$8 for it. It is absolutely awesome though, and I haven't replaced the battery in it once yet and I've had it since Christmas of 2013. It tunes wonderfully and I recommend getting one. Like another answer here suggests, you could just download guitar tuna, but its tuning isn't as sharp as the SNARK
There are a few solutions to this.
1. Buy a guitar tuner from a music store.
2. You can buy small pipes that sound the same as the guitar strings when in tune. This is not as easy as a tuner but it will train you ear better.
3. Get an app. My favourite one is GuitarTuna, it's very good and it can also help you learn chords.
Hope this helped!
I've been playing for 51years and back in the 60s it was hard to find out just were to start. E,A,D etc I just got a A tuning fork because I found I could hear A better than the other notes. After that I went the normal 5th freat and all. I found that playing the blues in E and A with the accompanying B help me bring it all together. A 'D' chord tuned the high strings into the E blues arrangement if that makes sense. When a tuner is not around. Can't beat those tuners though.