Andy Culpepper -> RE: Tuning our guitars (Feb. 9 2019 12:59:15)
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I appreciate this guy's approach, but in practice, tuning is just not that exact of a science. Like you said, things start to drift as soon as you start playing, and if you're performing on a stage with hot lights, etc. then forget about it. All good guitarists will continually tune on the fly by ear during a performance, and some will even tune slightly differently depending on what key they're going to play in. Personally I always tune my guitar the same way: -first tune the A string using a tuner, fork, tone, whatever I have, then tune the rest of the guitar to that by ear. -I tune the 6th string by matching the A at the 5th fret. -Then the 4th string by fretting it at the second fret and matching it to an octave above the low E. -Then the 3rd string by fretting it at the second fret and matching it to an octave above the A -Then the 2nd string by fretting the 5th at the second fret, and matching the open B to that -Then the 1st string by matching it to the open 6th. This pretty much lets all the most common 1st position chords sound nicely in tune with the octaves in the right places. But every system of tuning is a bit of a compromise, between certain intervals, chords or open strings. Unless maybe you have one of those guitars with the weird squiggly frets, a perfectly intonated nut and saddle, tune every string down to the cent, etc. and even then you have issues...
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