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How to Tune an Acoustic Guitar (Lesson 9 of 19)
Lesson 9: How to Tune a Guitar
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It’s a fact that if your guitar isn’t in tune, it won’t sound nearly as good as if it were in tune. That’s why Thomas will teach you how to successfully tune your guitar in standard tuning with only the use of your ears!
How to Tune a Guitar
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The key to tuning your guitar properly is first understanding when a string is sharp and when a string is flat. Take the A string for example:
* Using your low E string (6th string) as a reference pitch, play the 5th fret on the E string and the open A string. If the A string sounds higher than the 5th fret of the E string, the A string is sharp and therefore needs to be lowered. To do this, take your right hand (left if you’re left handed) and reach over to the machine head for the A string and turn it counter clockwise to lower the pitch. If the A string sounds lower than the 5th fret of the E string, the A string is flat and therefore needs to be raised. To do this, turn the machine head for the A string clockwise to raise the pitch.
Now, apply these same concepts to the rest of the strings:
* Play the 5th fret on the A string and adjust the open D string
* Play the 5th fret on the D string and adjust the open G string
* Play the 4th fret on the G string and adjust the open B string
* * This is the only case where you tune a string to the 4th fret. Use the 5th fret for all other strings.
* Play the 5th fret on the B string and adjust the open E string (1st string)
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How to Tune a Guitar (Lesson 9 of 19)
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Those tightly (or loosely) wired strings can easily get out of tune. Use this video to learn how to tune your acoustic guitar. Match your acoustic guitar string pitches with the ones in this video, and soon you’ll be on the road to rock stardom.
Previous Lesson
How to Play on the Guitar Frets (Lesson 8 of 19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-GlC57_3Y
Next Lesson
How to Play the Chromatic Scale on Guitar (Lesson 10 of 19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmpCdsBz52c
Learn more guitar with these playlists:
Mahalo Beginner Guitar Course: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C75172A9F8455751
Learn All Mahalo Guitar Songs: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BDDDFBE8D167A0E5
Classic Rock Guitar Lessons with Sharon: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=355DE97944EA5049
Classic Rock Guitar Lessons with Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0D0DFB9E9D9CD282
Pop and Rock Guitar Lessons with Jen Trani: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6676D19E8D8BE777
Pop and Rock Guitar Lessons with Julie Meyers: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F0AE03D704BBD062
Rock Guitar Lessons with Kip Haynes: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BDC24D607204CBFB
Continue your guitar beginner course at these Mahalo pages:
Welcome to Mahalo’s Beginner Guitar Course!: http://www.mahalo.com/welcome-to-mahalos-beginner-guitar-course
Parts of an Acoustic Guitar : http://www.mahalo.com/parts-of-an-acoustic-guitar
Parts of an Electric Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/parts-of-an-electric-guitar
How to Hold the Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-hold-the-guitar
How to Hold a Guitar Pick: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-hold-a-guitar-pick
How to Pick a Guitar String: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-pick-a-guitar-string
Names of the Guitar Strings: http://www.mahalo.com/names-of-the-guitar-strings
What Are “Frets” on a Guitar?: http://www.mahalo.com/what-are-frets-on-a-guitar
How to Play on the Frets: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-on-the-frets
How to Tune an electric guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-tune-an-electric-guitar
How to Tune an Acoustic Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-tune-an-acoustic-guitar
How to Play the Chromatic Scale on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-the-chromatic-scale-on-guitar
Whole Steps and Half Steps: http://www.mahalo.com/whole-steps-and-half-steps
How to Read Chord Charts: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-read-chord-charts
Strumming 101: http://www.mahalo.com/strumming-101
Learn Your First Chords: G: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-g
Learn Your First Chords: C: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-c
Learn Your First Chords: D: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-d
Chord Tips and Tricks: http://www.mahalo.com/chord-tips-and-tricks
How to Play “Wild Thing” by the Troggs on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-wild-thing-by-the-troggs-on-guitar
How to Play “Sweet home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-sweet-home-alabama-by-lynyrd-skynyrd-on-guitar
Congratulations! You Completed the Beginner Guitar Course!: http://www.mahalo.com/congratulations-you-completed-the-beginner-guitar-course
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How to Tune a Guitar (Lesson 9)
http://www.mahalo.com/learn-to-play-Guitar-beginner-course/
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-tune-a-guitar
Those tightly (or loosely) wired strings can easily get out of tune. Use this video to learn how to tune your acoustic guitar. Match your acoustic guitar string pitches with the ones in this video, and soon you’ll be on the road to rock stardom.
Previous Lesson
How to Play on the Guitar Frets (Lesson 
Next Lesson
How to Play the Chromatic Scale on guitar (Lesson 10)
Learn more guitar with these playlists:
Mahalo Beginner Guitar Course: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C75172A9F8455751
Learn All Mahalo Guitar Songs: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BDDDFBE8D167A0E5
Classic Rock Guitar Lessons with Sharon: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=355DE97944EA5049
Classic Rock Guitar Lessons with Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0D0DFB9E9D9CD282
Pop and Rock Guitar Lessons with Jen Trani: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6676D19E8D8BE777
Pop and Rock Guitar Lessons with Julie Meyers: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F0AE03D704BBD062
Rock Guitar Lessons with Kip Haynes: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BDC24D607204CBFB
Continue your guitar beginner course at these Mahalo pages:
Welcome to Mahalo’s Beginner Guitar Course!: http://www.mahalo.com/welcome-to-mahalos-beginner-guitar-course
Parts of an Acoustic Guitar : http://www.mahalo.com/parts-of-an-acoustic-guitar
Parts of an electric guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/parts-of-an-electric-guitar
How to Hold the Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-hold-the-guitar
How to Hold a Guitar Pick: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-hold-a-guitar-pick
How to Pick a Guitar String: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-pick-a-guitar-string
Names of the Guitar Strings: http://www.mahalo.com/names-of-the-guitar-strings
What Are “Frets” on a Guitar?: http://www.mahalo.com/what-are-frets-on-a-guitar
How to Play on the Frets: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-on-the-frets
How to Tune an Electric Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-tune-an-electric-guitar
How to Tune an Acoustic Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-tune-an-acoustic-guitar
How to Play the Chromatic Scale on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-the-chromatic-scale-on-guitar
Whole Steps and Half Steps: http://www.mahalo.com/whole-steps-and-half-steps
How to Read Chord Charts: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-read-chord-charts
Strumming 101: http://www.mahalo.com/strumming-101
Learn Your First Chords: G: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-g
Learn Your First Chords: C: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-c
Learn Your First Chords: D: http://www.mahalo.com/learn-your-first-chords-d
Chord Tips and Tricks: http://www.mahalo.com/chord-tips-and-tricks
How to Play “Wild Thing” by the Troggs on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-wild-thing-by-the-troggs-on-guitar
How to Play “Sweet home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd on Guitar: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-sweet-home-alabama-by-lynyrd-skynyrd-on-guitar
Congratulations! You Completed the Beginner Guitar Course!: http://www.mahalo.com/congratulations-you-completed-the-beginner-guitar-course
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Blues Guitar Lessons – “Sweet Home Chicago” Genealogy
FULL LESSON: http://su.pr/6lIk53
Blues guitar lessons: http://www.truefire.com/join.html
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of teaching at various workshops in the company of some fabulous blues guitarists, including Paul Rishell, Steve James and Duke Robillard, among others. I’ve always soaked up as much as I could from these experiences, realizing early on that as long as no one who was paying me to teach realized just how much I was actually learning myself, I was pretty much sitting on so much velvet. The thing I’ve always envied about these guys is their hands-on connection to the past. Steve’s got stories about backing up Furry Lewis onstage in Memphis in the early ’70s. Duke told me once how he got called up to sit in with Muddy Waters, while Freddie King was already onstage too, and Freddie proceeded to glower at Duke the entire time for messing with his own Muddy moment. “And Freddie was a big guy!” laughed Duke. But the best of all are Paul Rishell’s stories about backing up Howlin’ Wolf in Boston, also in the early ’70s. After one session, one of the other musicians asked Wolf if he had any words of wisdom for a young, up and coming bluesman. Wolf looked the afro’d and dashiki’d guitarist up and down and growled, “Yeah! Throw them pedals in the river on the way to the barber shop!”
So I wish the things I am about to tell you, I learned from hanging with Robert Lockwood Jr., sitting in with Roosevelt Sykes, and catching Magic Sam at his incendiary Ann Arbor Blues Festival appearance in the 1960s. But I didn’t. I learned them on Youtube, and from Wikipedia. Also from Elijah Wald’s fantastic book, Escaping the Delta. More on that in a future post. For now, on to the Robert Johnson tune, “Sweet home Chicago.”
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