A great video for beginners like myself. You explained everything clearly and concisely and it was easy to understand. Well done!!! I always look forward to your videos.
I have played an out of tune guitar but never played a over cooked cheese burger 🍔 I was just thinking earlier today about how you pronounce your last name. Thanks Michael. I have used tuning forks, I have E and A, harmonicas, I have a briefcase full and my phone. My battery is always dead in my clip-on. Actually I usually watch one of your videos. Now I need to see what you have to sell.
Thanks John. Ive played some out of tune guitars my self, no fun. I keep a pack of those little flat batteries for the clip on tuners, they don't last very long. You'll know when the batteries are going low, it starts tuning your guitar all wacky lol
Easy, simple, too the point and informative. Most want to spend 15 minutes on intonation but if you have an unmarked bridge and a beginner at restringing this is the video. Thank you.
Well Michael, How these tuners have progressed over the years, so easy these days. Another very informative, Rewarding, Enjoyable video, Many Thanks Michael & God Bless you all.
Very informative video Michael. I would like to add that you sometimes can’t always trust them. As a new builder/player I was getting very frustrated and convinced I was doing something wrong with my builds because when I tuned them they sounded terrible. I got a local recording artist to come over and he tried tuning with the tuner and took it off and through it away and tuned it by ear, what a difference. It was an ENO ET-33 off Amazon, baaaddddd. I then downloaded one from an app and it is very good, it is InsTuner. I was then in the local music store and thought I would get one they recommended so I got a Silver Snark and it is not any good either. So long story short make sure you get a good one or maybe 2 for double checking and it also wouldn’t hurt to have an ear like yours.
Thanks Bob, Very true, not everything works as it should. Most things are made pretty poorly and cheap these days. Yes, it is good to have a couple different ways of tuning, so you can double check it. A good ear does help :) M~
Nice to see the basics, one thing I see you doing is tuning up to the final position where if you over shoot and it is sharp over top of the green zone you then tune down below the green zone into the flat territory and then tighten back up again until you hit it dead on and get the green.
I have a few different Fender tuners, they're great. Try a Snark sometime. Very affordable and tough. I left mine in my jacket pocket and washed my jacket. I realized this 🤪 error before I threw it in the dryer. That little tuner works as good as it did when I first used it right out of the box 😂
I've always intonated by making sure the open string was in tune of course, but to intonate I was taught to fret the note and check, then strike an open harmonic on the same string, then adjust around the fretted note and the harmonic. You ever tried it that way? I use strobe tuners though, including a vintage CONN ST which actually works great.
Thanks Mario, I usually try to stay at around 5mm at the 12th fret, the first fret will vary some. I have made quite a few fret less guitars. I haven't made one in a while, maybe its time to build one. I like playing fret less with a slide, always fun. M~
Hey Mike, is it normal for the lower frets(1-5 or so) to be a little sharp? My guitars, including a factory made telecaster, all have this problem. Open and 12th are tuned, but goes sharp towards the nut.
Hi Jack, I don't think its normal, could be hard to pin point, lot of factors involved. Fret spacing, nut height, string gauge, intonation. Weird that its doing it on multiple guitars though.
Once again,brilliantly explained, God blessings
Thank you, John. M~
A great video for beginners like myself. You explained everything clearly and concisely and it was easy to understand. Well done!!! I always look forward to your videos.
Thank you very much, Brett. I appreciate that. M~
Yes I agree.
I have played an out of tune guitar but never played a over cooked cheese burger 🍔
I was just thinking earlier today about how you pronounce your last name. Thanks Michael.
I have used tuning forks, I have E and A, harmonicas, I have a briefcase full and my phone. My battery is always dead in my clip-on. Actually I usually watch one of your videos.
Now I need to see what you have to sell.
Thanks John. Ive played some out of tune guitars my self, no fun. I keep a pack of those little flat batteries for the clip on tuners, they don't last very long. You'll know when the batteries are going low, it starts tuning your guitar all wacky lol
I have 2 of the clip on tuners, and I love them. I also have a tuner app on my phone.
Thanks Eric, me too. I removed the one on my phone, but I need to get me another one. :) M~
Very solid information. Experienced quite a fair few of those tuning devices you show here, except the last neck type thing,
Thank you, my friend. Yeah, those clip on tuners are very accurate and pretty easy to use. M~
Easy, simple, too the point and informative. Most want to spend 15 minutes on intonation but if you have an unmarked bridge and a beginner at restringing this is the video. Thank you.
Thank you, Jeff. M~
Well Michael, How these tuners have progressed over the years, so easy these days. Another very informative, Rewarding, Enjoyable video, Many Thanks Michael & God Bless you all.
Thanks Peter. Yes they have, pretty easy to use. God Bless.
Great info, thanks so much
Your welcome Neil. Thanks for watching. M~
Thanks for keeping it simple. I agree about the cheeseburger.
Your welcome, Dean, Thanks for checking it out. A good cheeseburger is med rare lol
Love your skills an methods pick up choices.
I like the humbuckers.And p90
Thank you, Freddy. I like both of those too. M~
Great walkthrough bro!
Thank you, my friend. M~
Very informative video Michael. I would like to add that you sometimes can’t always trust them. As a new builder/player I was getting very frustrated and convinced I was doing something wrong with my builds because when I tuned them they sounded terrible. I got a local recording artist to come over and he tried tuning with the tuner and took it off and through it away and tuned it by ear, what a difference. It was an ENO ET-33 off Amazon, baaaddddd. I then downloaded one from an app and it is very good, it is InsTuner. I was then in the local music store and thought I would get one they recommended so I got a Silver Snark and it is not any good either. So long story short make sure you get a good one or maybe 2 for double checking and it also wouldn’t hurt to have an ear like yours.
Thanks Bob, Very true, not everything works as it should. Most things are made pretty poorly and cheap these days. Yes, it is good to have a couple different ways of tuning, so you can double check it. A good ear does help :) M~
you cracked me up saying how fun those pitch tuners were to use lol. i'm glad i started playing when the plug in style were around.
Thanks zip zip. I liked the old plug in tuners lol
@@SouthernFireGuitars me too...I usually just use my phone now though.
@@zipzip8239 I have one of those too, on my phone.
Thanks 👍
Welcome 👍
Nice to see the basics, one thing I see you doing is tuning up to the final position where if you over shoot and it is sharp over top of the green zone you then tune down below the green zone into the flat territory and then tighten back up again until you hit it dead on and get the green.
Thanks Hobby, I did realize I should have mentioned that bit of info, after I uploaded the video lol
I have a few different Fender tuners, they're great. Try a Snark sometime. Very affordable and tough. I left mine in my jacket pocket and washed my jacket. I realized this 🤪 error before I threw it in the dryer. That little tuner works as good as it did when I first used it right out of the box 😂
Thanks, I will have to try the Snark. :)
Stop playing an out of tune guitar. Beginner Lesson - Tune and set the intonation on your CBG with a Clip on Tuner.
Fine tune it again using the fretted note and harmonic at the 19th fret
@@Grumpy_CBG Thanks brad, will give it a shot. M~
I've always intonated by making sure the open string was in tune of course, but to intonate I was taught to fret the note and check, then strike an open harmonic on the same string, then adjust around the fretted note and the harmonic. You ever tried it that way? I use strobe tuners though, including a vintage CONN ST which actually works great.
Thanks for the info, I'll have to give that a try, Ive never used a strobe tuner before.
And like the home made flat humbuckers lucky13
MGB
Thanks Freddy
Hey Michael How high is your string above the first fret and the 12e fret
and do you also make fretless guitars
I realy learned a lot of your video''s
Thanks Mario, I usually try to stay at around 5mm at the 12th fret, the first fret will vary some. I have made quite a few fret less guitars. I haven't made one in a while, maybe its time to build one. I like playing fret less with a slide, always fun. M~
Where is the B for badassery
Thanks Frank. Here's the B lol
Where is the B for bass
Thanks Frank, I believe you use the G guitar for bass tuning. :)
Hey Mike, is it normal for the lower frets(1-5 or so) to be a little sharp? My guitars, including a factory made telecaster, all have this problem. Open and 12th are tuned, but goes sharp towards the nut.
Hi Jack, I don't think its normal, could be hard to pin point, lot of factors involved. Fret spacing, nut height, string gauge, intonation. Weird that its doing it on multiple guitars though.
@@SouthernFireGuitars Yeah, it's weird. Did you check every string at every fret? Was it spot on everywhere?
@@DavidAndersoniiVI I did not check every fret.
@@SouthernFireGuitars how will I know if it's normal then?
@@DavidAndersoniiVI I don't think all guitars are going to be perfect. I just checked my Tele and my Dean and they weren't dead on, on every fret.