Tuning A Guitar

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The tuning of a guitar is absolutely important. Even one or two strings slightly out of tune makes the whole thing sound bad. If you are playing for hours each day, you would want to make sure that the guitar is properly tuned on a daily basis. Otherwise once a week or every few days should be fine.

You can pick up a decent guitar tuner for only about $20 from a music store, and make sure it has a visual display. Tuning each string at a time, it takes only about 10 – 30 seconds to do the whole thing. If you are ever without a guitar tuner for what ever reason, you can still do it manually.

To tune a guitar manually, you need at least one string initially in correct tune. You can hear sound files of the net to do this. Next you want to make sure that every string is exactly five half notes (frets) apart. To do this for example with the two lowest strings, “E” and “A”, hold the “E” string on the 5th fret and make sure it produces exactly the same sound as the “A” string (assuming “A” is already tuned correctly). This is the case with all strings except for “G” and “B” which are only four half notes (frets) apart.

Once all strings are done, make sure that they are all in harmony with each other (E.g. the “A” is exactly 10 half notes from the “G” string, as they are two strings apart). Do this all the way from the highest to the lowest string.

Also, be sure to replace your strings about every four to six months as they wear out.

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Playing A Guitar Correctly

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As with every other instrument, playing a guitar correctly is crucial to your skill and development. The guitar itself should be rested upon your right leg (everything reversed for left handers), in an upright position.

Your right hand, or playing hand is actually more important that your left (how you control the strings). When picking the strings, with or without a pick, your wrist should be rested on the bridge of the guitar (where the strings are tied off at the base). This way you will easily remember where the strings are. When strumming chords, the timing, speed and power are all very crucial. You really need to work on your strumming pattern and the timing of it as much as you can, as this is what actually produces the sound. You do not rest your wrist on the bridge when strumming.

Your left hand also requires a lot of work. It is important to not get into bad habits of what fingers you use to play particular frets and combinations. The easiest way to avoid this is to quite simply learn as many chords as you can, and generally your fingers will find themselves in the correct positions. A lot of chord sheets and tabs also tell you what fingers need to be where. Another problem commonly facing beginners is the muting of surrounding strings that you are playing. This is annoying at first. But only practice will help you to avoid it altogether. Also when playing, make sure you are putting enough pressure on the strings as well, or this will also cause muting (especially with barre chords).

At first your eyes will be fighting to look at both your left and right hand at the same time. This is ok while you are practicing, but in general your eyes should be focused on your right (playing) hand.

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