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Summary: Learn some tips on how to tune a guitar with an electric tuner in this free video clip on music theory lessons and musical instruments.

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Rick Tobey Rick Tobey has been playing guitar for over 30 years. He plays professionally as a solo blues artist and in his band. His blues band won the 2007 Cape Fear Bl... read more

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How to Tune a Guitar with a Tuner

RICK TOBEY: Hello. I'm Rick Tobey and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach some blues guitar techniques. Now, another way to tune your guitar rather than by tuning by ear is to use an electronic or digital tuner such as this one. Now, there are different kinds of digital tuners. Some of them are like a foot pedal. And if you have an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar with a pickup inside, you can plug a cord into the guitar, plug that into the tuner on the floor, and get it in tune that way. If you don't have an electric guitar, you can use a tuner like this, and this clips on the end of the guitar and it picks up the pitch of the string. I prefer using a digital or electronic tuner rather than tuning by ear; it's much more accurate and it's a lot faster. For example, if this string was out of tune, you see how that doesn't sound very good. I have to the find the E on this string, and I'm still out of tune [INDISCERNIBLE]. However, with this little gadget here, I just hit the string, and it shows me that the string was a little bit flat so then I just tune it up. And if you're sitting there in front of your computer with your guitar, you can be tuning up along with me as I go through with this electronic tuner. Of course, if you have electronic tuner of your own, then you can just go ahead and tune up. Now, see how easy that was? That's the electronic tuner. It works great.

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