Guitar Tuners & Metronomes

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Part of the video series: Choosing a Musical Instrument

Summary: So you want to learn to play music but not sure which of the thousands of instruments is right for you? Here are a few tips on the importance of guitar tuners and metronomes.

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Richard Sheff Richard Sheff he has been playing music since the 50's and he has been teaching guitar for years. He also works in a music store selling wind, string and keyb... read more

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Guitar Tuners & Metronomes

Let's examine a couple of useful accessories for musicians and, in particular, guitar players, with a tuner. This is an electronic tuner. This instrument is very inexpensive and allows you to easily tune a guitar or bass. You can turn it on and select either bass or guitar here, and you can sound the basic pitches to tune the instrument to. After that, the instrument will be playing and this will listen for it and light up a light and move the dial to show you when you're on pitch. This is a metronome, another very useful instrument just for setting tempo to help you learn how to play a constant, uniform time. It's a very useful instrument for people early on in their career until they develop a good sense of timing. This is a metronome.

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