Saturday, March 28, 2009

Easiest way to Tune Guitar

well,first of all I must admit that I am naive guitar player.Tuning Guitar is always a big problem for me. I went through net and It was always hard for me to tune guitar with the help of sounds.

There are two types of tuning guitar
1. Absolute : where,frequency of each string is fixed and for tuning guitar you need help of synthesizer or ready made frequency MP3s available.This approach is followed in Western Music Culture
2. Relative : In this type,the frequency of strings are set with refence to the 1st string (E string ).
I am following this approach because there is no harm in doing so.. :)

well, I think,when you play the guitar in unison, you need to follow the first way otherwise It is better to tune it relatively

Here we go ...

I believe you people are very much aware of chromatic scale
Heres is the chart
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th fret Number
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
B|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
G|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|--5-|----|----|----|----|

now,play above tab.play A open and E with placing the finger on the 5th fret at a time.if guitar is tuned then you will get single sound otherwise you will able to listen two different sounds.If you get two sounds then strings are not tuned.slide finger to sixth fret and repeat the process. or it is better try from first fret.then then go on finding the fret where you get unison.
say,you get unison at 7th fret then adjust A string and you will get the effect of sliding unison sound.adjust the tension in the string 'A' such that you get unison at 5th

similarly follow the same procedure for other strings
A string

E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
B|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
G|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|--5-|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

D string

E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
B|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
G|----|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|--5-|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

G string

E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
B|----|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|
G|----|----|--5-|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

B string

E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
B|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|----|
G|----|--4-|----|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

E string

E|----|----|--0-|----|----|----|----|
B|----|----|--5-|----|----|----|----|
G|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
D|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
A|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
E|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

This works on the sonometer experiment...

Why I am here

Sometimes you may not wanted to be but your fate force you to be part of the unwanted things and here is destiny. Same happened with me.It was unintentional for me to be blogger..
One of my friend Nitesh Jadhav had created blog of his poems.I must say, he is gem of person.Poems I generally not into,but this guy the Poet, let me read his poems that are not only rhythmic but also topical and sensetive to the surroundings and worth reading..

read his blog : http://niteshjadhav.blogspot.com/
its worth reading...