You might use a recorded tack that you know starts with an E note or power chord as your reference point. Then you can fifth fret or harmonic tune the rest of your strings.
At 01:58, it won't necessarily be "out of tune" if it is simply tuned relatively. It wil be tuned to a lower register or higher register. If you consider that only a 41.2Hz E-6th string is acceptable, then it is probably out of tune.
This is five times the time needed to explain such simple ideas. I have taught many people how to tune by 5th (plus one at 4th) fret method in 30 seconds.
There’s 4 methods. The 4th, or for me, the first method, is to tune the guitar by ear. That is tune by hearing each string from memory. I don’t use a tuner or any form of tuning device. It is easy though it took me a few years of practice to become 99.9-100 percent on the money. Im here searching for a video about what I am talking about tuning wise. No luck so far. I’ll have to make my own video 🎸
Hi John, as you probably know, you can use another string on the guitar as a reference string such as the D string for example. However that does rely on still having a least one string on the guitar in tune. For me, I still personally use a tuner like the Snark Sn1 clip-on tuner, but being able to use the 5th Fret Method to tune those strings that have gone out of tune does come in handy.
How about without an amp and without a tuner??? I have an electric guitar but with no amp and no tuner, all the "how to" videos are with one or the other.
"...another guitar as a reference point." You can do that if you plan to play together or if you know the other guitar is tuned perfectly. Otherwise, you need an instrument that has fixed tones. I use an electric piano, which may not be perfect, but I'm sure it is always the same.
I bought a second hand guitar but how do I know if the E string is correctly tuned? This is impossible to do people just buy a tuner for 10 euro and ur good I believe!
Watched 10 different videos titled "how to tune a guitar by ear" and all of them use some sort of reference - other instrument, or 1 string is pretuned... Still can't find what i'm really looking for - a method to memorize 1 sound perfectly and being able to tune that 1 string to use it as reference afterwards... I'm hopeless.
I would have liked to have watched this but the orange banner at the bottom blocked the view of the guitar neck. Bailed at 1:44... Hope you moved lots of those ebooks...
SaoriGameOver I'm aware of that but why should I have to? Click the x, then click at the left edge of the timeline to start over. And how do I know if more banners won't pop up and I have to click more x's? These banners are really starting to be a huge nuisance. As soon as I see them, I'm gone. There are plenty of other videos without banners that demonstrate how to tune a guitar by ear.
ryan ross Customers are spooked by the least little thing. I will click off one banner, and if I really like the content, two. But any more than two and I'm gone. Back when the internet first started, website designers liked things that flashed or blinked. It didn't take long for them to catch a clue that blinking stuff turned people off. The three most important things to consider when making a UA-cam video are, 1. Content 2. Content 3. Content If you have good content, viewers will subscribe. If you don't, they won't. This ain't rocket surgery; it's just common sense. If you have good content, why shoot yourself in the foot by plastering plastering the screen with attention-diverting banners? You are sending two messages at once and the second is detracting from the first. And if you're expecting me to lift a finger to my Logitech rollerball to clean up your dirty screen, you gotta another think coming. Give me a clean screen or fugiddaboutit...
+Leon Davis Just rewatched my own video and the annotation is even annoying me, and it's my own video. haha. i've moved it to the top of the video and it goes way after like 30 seconds. I still want to give people the opportunity to get some guitar goodies, but don't want to annoy them in the process which is what it was doing.
6:24 - Your face when you realise you can't sing a simple full tone. How can this guy make videos about tuning a guitar by ear if his own ear doesn't allow him to sing a single accurate interval?
First, the rest of the World starts with the highest string. Second, they take it from a piano. The rest tunes up to it in order opposite to yours, high to low. Too much bullshit.
All of this foul language in the comments is ticking me off. I understand that people swear because of insecurities, but c'mon people, you are masked by the internet and your computer, so you don't need to act "cool" with swear words. Thumbs up on this comment if you agree. #idiots
Potato Bob I see that you have THREE followers. If you stop using the foul language, you might make it to 10 or 12 someday. ...why don't people follow you on Google+ ?
This advice is, to put it nicely, sub-standard. I would never concede that my ear is wrong to a tuner. I have always tuned with my ear. The only time i ever used a tuner, it was wrong and further fine-tuning was required. For this reason, i never trust guitar tuners. Furthermore, this technique is not foolproof because indentation can slightly alter the pitch of the string so when you play both strings open it won't be a perfect fourth as it should be. Also, if the other strings are detuned and you have the bottom E tuned via a reference first, what happens as you tune the other strings up is the tension in the neck alters the pitch of the originally-tuned bottom-E. So in actual fact, this is terrible advice by a well-meaning person who doesn't know any better. ALWAYS TRUST YOUR EAR!!!
Hi Otiswhite777 . While I certainly do agree with you, I also believe that when starting out and learning anything new, it's better to try and get close enough instead of worrying about being perfect. I've just seen so many people get worried about needing to have everything perfect that they either think it's all to hard, or worse give up and quit. Once they're comfortable with the 'close enough is good enough' phase, then I recommend going for the perfection, which should be easier as they're already most of the way there. Just my thoughts and the way I like to teach. Doesn't resonate with everyone, but that's OK.
some years ago I used to tune my guitar by eyes.
Cool
LMAOO
@@user-jj9re7pw6x 1.5 years ago I became able to tune my bass by ear - just watched a good video explaining what to hear.
@@harryshmuttle2975 wait this wasn't a joke??
@@user-jj9re7pw6x yes, this is not a joke.
He talks to freaking much just get to the point
Fr
True but like as soon as you get his point just look at the description and get the frets for next string
Back in the 90's, the phone dial tone in the US was an F natural. There was always a phone around. An old school tuner !
Finally a tuning video worth watching
Glad you liked it Connor DenBleyker
You might use a recorded tack that you know starts with an E note or power chord as your reference point. Then you can fifth fret or harmonic tune the rest of your strings.
At 01:58, it won't necessarily be "out of tune" if it is simply tuned relatively. It wil be tuned to a lower register or higher register. If you consider that only a 41.2Hz E-6th string is acceptable, then it is probably out of tune.
This is five times the time needed to explain such simple ideas. I have taught many people how to tune by 5th (plus one at 4th) fret method in 30 seconds.
Without a tuner?
Never seen someone that waffles on so long should have only took 2 mins. i feel sorry for his local shop owner
GRYEJWH LMAOO
Rude man
this is the beast method to toning I always use this method. and u can do it from down to up. and ton 5 other strings with 1st one.
There’s 4 methods. The 4th, or for me, the first method, is to tune the guitar by ear. That is tune by hearing each string from memory.
I don’t use a tuner or any form of tuning device.
It is easy though it took me a few years of practice to become 99.9-100 percent on the money.
Im here searching for a video about what I am talking about tuning wise. No luck so far.
I’ll have to make my own video 🎸
Hi Paul I have the same tuner how do You like yours?
I need ur coherence, ur speaking skills in my ilets exam
Hi John, as you probably know, you can use another string on the guitar as a reference string such as the D string for example. However that does rely on still having a least one string on the guitar in tune. For me, I still personally use a tuner like the Snark Sn1 clip-on tuner, but being able to use the 5th Fret Method to tune those strings that have gone out of tune does come in handy.
thanks so much easy peasy
THANK YOU !
How about without an amp and without a tuner??? I have an electric guitar but with no amp and no tuner, all the "how to" videos are with one or the other.
thanks paul!
thank you very much
I was trying this, then just downloaded an app on my phone, it was perfect too like im so happy haha!
Great video man I really got what you were saying and understood how to tune it up thanks
"...another guitar as a reference point." You can do that if you plan to play together or if you know the other guitar is tuned perfectly. Otherwise, you need an instrument that has fixed tones. I use an electric piano, which may not be perfect, but I'm sure it is always the same.
I bought a second hand guitar but how do I know if the E string is correctly tuned? This is impossible to do people just buy a tuner for 10 euro and ur good I believe!
Thanks alot
man none of these youtube videos work and im too broke to get a teacher 😔😭😭 now my guitars just gonna have to be a decoration
Does this work for all tunings? If I wanted to tune to drop d for example, would I just get the top string to drop d then the other ones to match?
+John B he talked no fucking sense nothink worked! u might aswell buy a fucking tuner!
Watched 10 different videos titled "how to tune a guitar by ear" and all of them use some sort of reference - other instrument, or 1 string is pretuned... Still can't find what i'm really looking for - a method to memorize 1 sound perfectly and being able to tune that 1 string to use it as reference afterwards... I'm hopeless.
Nice guitar
im watchin a video on how to tune so why would i know whether or not my guitar is in tune to tune the rest of my strings
I suck. I don't have a tuner my strings are close but my bottom 2 sound horrible when I play a G chord. I can't find the tuning for them.
I would have liked to have watched this but the orange banner at the bottom blocked the view of the guitar neck.
Bailed at 1:44...
Hope you moved lots of those ebooks...
+Leon Davis You can remove it by pressing the x at the top right of that banner.
SaoriGameOver I'm aware of that but why should I have to? Click the x, then click at the left edge of the timeline to start over. And how do I know if more banners won't pop up and I have to click more x's?
These banners are really starting to be a huge nuisance. As soon as I see them, I'm gone.
There are plenty of other videos without banners that demonstrate how to tune a guitar by ear.
+Leon Davis I personally find it a bit ridiculous that you refuse to watch videos because of the annotations. You can literally just turn them off.
ryan ross Customers are spooked by the least little thing. I will click off one banner, and if I really like the content, two. But any more than two and I'm gone.
Back when the internet first started, website designers liked things that flashed or blinked. It didn't take long for them to catch a clue that blinking stuff turned people off.
The three most important things to consider when making a UA-cam video are,
1. Content
2. Content
3. Content
If you have good content, viewers will subscribe. If you don't, they won't. This ain't rocket surgery; it's just common sense.
If you have good content, why shoot yourself in the foot by plastering plastering the screen with attention-diverting banners? You are sending two messages at once and the second is detracting from the first.
And if you're expecting me to lift a finger to my Logitech rollerball to clean up your dirty screen, you gotta another think coming.
Give me a clean screen or fugiddaboutit...
+Leon Davis Just rewatched my own video and the annotation is even annoying me, and it's my own video. haha.
i've moved it to the top of the video and it goes way after like 30 seconds.
I still want to give people the opportunity to get some guitar goodies, but don't want to annoy them in the process which is what it was doing.
thanks this video really helped... i have a tuner already but... its too far away! lol.... I'm soo
lazy
how can i know if my low E string is flat or not in?
what if the low E is out ?
thank you I finally tuned my guitar
thanks man my guitar sounds awesome now
This is a great video for insomnia.....ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz......
How did you wawa do that wawa?
nice
thanksssss alot!! xD
you are close enough to rock n roll=)
gezsus how much do u talk
aswell*
7:01 I mean being a little high isn't that bad, at least your not stoned.
how can you tune with a swinging string, it is mmm, out of tune.sqeeses my ears.
Take a shot everytime he says "tune your guitar by ear"
It dose not work
nvm got it
im soo MADD!!! I did what u said AND THE STRING SNAPPED NOW I NEED A NEE GUITAR :(
no u dont just get a new string
@@vloggingvlogger2498 6 years ago m8 xd
get new strings
I have always tuned by ear. I thought every person who ever picked up a guitar would learn to tune by ear.
6:24 - Your face when you realise you can't sing a simple full tone. How can this guy make videos about tuning a guitar by ear if his own ear doesn't allow him to sing a single accurate interval?
Too much talking
Great instruction, too much explaination on something so simple. Taught me good though. Thx.
you talk a lot for someone that stutters like a machine gun-
I'm so mad I have that same guitar and no Floyd rose!!!
First, the rest of the World starts with the highest string. Second, they take it from a piano. The rest tunes up to it in order opposite to yours, high to low. Too much bullshit.
appstore has tuner just so you guys know
or you can just have perfect pitch like some of my friends and ACTUALLY tune by ear.
Didn't understand slow down
i might aswell and buy a fucking tuner
Hard to understand.
misleading title....
J. A. S. Explain how it is
thought you had perfect pitch and could show us how to tune the guitar on a true E
i agree. by ear i think of you just changed strings and tune them to pitch with no help. not use a piano or tuning fork or harmonics...
All of this foul language in the comments is ticking me off. I understand that people swear because of insecurities, but c'mon people, you are masked by the internet and your computer, so you don't need to act "cool" with swear words. Thumbs up on this comment if you agree.
#idiots
Fuck
Sammy Bones So you're going to call people idiots because you don't like certain words? I have some advice. Fuck off. Happy?
I love watching people prove how they are idiots. ...who will eventually get themselves banned. People will not tolerate it for long.
Potato Bob I see that you have THREE followers. If you stop using the foul language, you might make it to 10 or 12 someday. ...why don't people follow you on Google+ ?
Great Nonsense!!!!!!!!
teadyyyy
i though that spider was on my screen ._.
Deaf not death
would be better if you just came to the point right away...
To0 much talking... =)
buy a tuner , simple as that
you're saying too much - that's 3minutes and 8 seconds
i smell too much bullshit
Haha
This advice is, to put it nicely, sub-standard. I would never concede that my ear is wrong to a tuner. I have always tuned with my ear. The only time i ever used a tuner, it was wrong and further fine-tuning was required. For this reason, i never trust guitar tuners. Furthermore, this technique is not foolproof because indentation can slightly alter the pitch of the string so when you play both strings open it won't be a perfect fourth as it should be. Also, if the other strings are detuned and you have the bottom E tuned via a reference first, what happens as you tune the other strings up is the tension in the neck alters the pitch of the originally-tuned bottom-E. So in actual fact, this is terrible advice by a well-meaning person who doesn't know any better. ALWAYS TRUST YOUR EAR!!!
Lol
why would tone deaf people play guitar?
Just tune the guitar i clicked on the video to learn how to tune not listen to you talk!!!!!!!!!!!
Loooooong winded. Says the simplistic things over and over, then says the same simple thing again a different way, then a third way.
You talk to much
Don’t do it. Get a tuner.
Dont talk so much just tune
Extreme is not my cup of tea... So, I don't like your video. Try a Gentle Giant shirt.
Please stop talking so much !!! AHhhhhhhhh !!!!
Just do it
stop talking so much
This guy is not in tune. Theres no good enough. Youre in tune or you're not.
Hi Otiswhite777 . While I certainly do agree with you, I also believe that when starting out and learning anything new, it's better to try and get close enough instead of worrying about being perfect.
I've just seen so many people get worried about needing to have everything perfect that they either think it's all to hard, or worse give up and quit.
Once they're comfortable with the 'close enough is good enough' phase, then I recommend going for the perfection, which should be easier as they're already most of the way there.
Just my thoughts and the way I like to teach. Doesn't resonate with everyone, but that's OK.
you're saying too much - that's 3minutes and 8 seconds