Whatever you do, don't fall for the 'trick' of comparing harmonics at 5th & 7th frets - mathematically, that can never work. See if you went out at the G on the way down. If you've drifted by the time you reach the bottom, correct the bottom E to the top E, then work your way back up the strings. Sometimes you can correct for that using a second pass, but not necessarily.įor some reason, people find the B - G hardest to do that way. That by the time you reach the last string, even the octave Es no longer match up. If you tune by fretting one string & comparing it to the next open string, there is the chance thatĢ) your precision in making each comparison is sufficient That way any inaccuracy would not be exacerbated as you move down the strings. The method that removes the most drift would be to tune each string to a played note on a piano or against a tuner. It can depend on a couple of factors amongst them, how good your ear is & how accurately the guitar is set up. (It's been a while since I tried the tuner so maybe I imagined it.)įor an unpracticed, or maybe just off-pitch, ear like mine, is it better to tune string by string against each pitch (play E, tune E, then play A, tune A, then play D etc), or better to tune one string then match relatively by playing the 4th or 5th fret of the lower string, or use a tuner? I've been tuning relatively simply because I prefer the strings sound good against each other than trying to tune each to a perfect pitch. Sometimes I outright use a tuner with the gauge, but as much as the device reads correctly, I swear sometimes they just don't feel precise. Sometimes I tune relative by playing the 5th (or 4th) fret of the lower string to match, but then I wonder if the precision drifts as I go from low E to high E. playing two strings and listening for them to match against each other.įor guitar, sometimes I tune string by string, but then the relative pitches don't sound right sometimes. I assumed I just don't have a precise ear, but was just fine tuning using 5ths, i.e. I played viola for 6-7 years and always had this problem to a degree where plucking or playing a string made me feel the pitch was wobbling in a range.
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