More on Tuning a Guitar by Ear After Restringing

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Hi, I'm Bryan Billhimer, and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to restring and tune a guitar. So once you got your first string in tune, now you can tune the rest of your strings to that string. So the first thing you want to do is now you got your A. Your A is in tune. So we have to find an A on the low E string. I know that that's on the fifth fret. So I'm going to fret the fifth string. Or I'm sorry, I'm going to fret the fifth fret on the low E string. I'm going to hit that, and I'm going to hit my A string. As you can see, they're not even close. So I'm going to tighten this up until I get it close to the A. The other thing you can listen for too, a little trick I learned, is when two notes are out of tune you'll hear like a, it's called a beat. It's like you can hear the sound wave beating back and forth. Now that sound wave will be faster the more out of tune it is. So you can listen for that sound wave to kind of spread out and get slower and that means you're getting closer into tune. I can hear that that wave is kind of going like this right now. And when you don't hear that wade, that wave, the beating against the two notes, then that means you're in tune. So now we're in tune.

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