how do you tune a guitar?
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to tune a guitar as correctly as possible, i would suggest using a guitar tuner and tune the strings from lowest to highest as "E, A, D, G, B, E".  If you dont have a tuner, u can also find these notes by ear if you know where they are on a piano\n\nIf you dont have a guitar tuner or a key board, there are a couple of alternitives, some better than others.  You can go to google.com and type in guitar tuner and find an interactive tuner, where you can click on each string individually and listen to how each one sounds.  \n\nIf you dont have a computer for whatever odd reason, then your best bet is to tune the guitar to itself, which can be done by playing the one string open and the string right next to that that is higher, you press down on the 5th fret.  The open note on the one string and the 5th fretted note on the other string should match.  This process works for every string combination except for the 2nd highest string, which you have to fret at the 4th fret and match it with the open instead of the 5th.
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You should change strings after every 50 hours of playing or every 2 months, whichever comes first.\n\nIf you break a string I always recommend that you replace the whole set...they cost less than $10.
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Firstly, you need to be able to play your instruments well.\nSecondly, to get that sound, one need only apply some\ntype of sound changing device. A common way to change a \nguitar sound is using a stomp box. There are different kinds.\nDistortion pedal is used to dirty up the sound. Compression\nis used to add "punch" to your guitar so it can be heard \nthrough the mix of other instruments. Delay devices can \nadd "shimmer" or "echo" type effects. These can also be\ndone by computer programs. And who can resist the "wah"\nsound of a pedal? I don't know exactly what they use, but\nthis is a good guess perhaps.
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If you're gonna do it, do it right. take lessons, learn to read music. take your time and learn as much as you can.\nI'm a guitar player, but never learned to read music. I wish i would have done it differently.
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Bends or alternate tunings.\n\nGuitarists routinely bend the string to get different sounds.  It would be difficult to hit microtones accurately (you'd have to have a great ear, I guess).\n\nYou could also use alternate tuning/stringing techniques to produce microtones across strings.\n\nOtherwise, the guitar is really setup specifically to hit semitones.
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Vibration of strings.\n\nOn an acoustic guitar, the body of the guitar is built so that it acts as a resonating chamber to greatly amplify the sound of the strings.\n\nOn an electric guitar, the pickups utilize a magnet with a coil around it. The vibrating strings interfere with the magnetic flux, and the coil picks this up as a small electrical current analogous to the vibrations. The current is then sent to an amplifier which amplifies this sound and sends that to a speaker, which reproduces the sound at a much greater sound pressure level.\n\nSome guitars, both electric and acoustic, as well as amplified violins and other stringed instruments utilize a piezo-electret element, which changes the vibrations into varying pressures, which then turn into electrical impulses, get amplied, etc. as above.\n\nThe length, diameter, composition and tightness of the string determines its pitch. The standard tuning for a guitar is (from lowest to highest strings) E, A, D, G, B, E.\n\nYou'll then note that each string can then be increased in pitch by 1/2 step for every fret you raise it from the open position.\n\nHope this helps.
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just like any other electric guitar.\nsee some guitars, follow the link\n:>peace
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yes go to drop tuning which usually youll go drop d and anything lower then that and you may want to get yourself a bass guitar.  but if you dont know how to go to drop just get a tuner and wait until your reading for the 6 string comes out as a 3d and that would be drop d tuning
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You get lower notes that way...tune your low E down to a D or even a C...you get a nice drone going that way (especially if what you're playing is in D, E, F, G or C)
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start off by just going through a scale you know. just pick the root, 3rd and 5th. the trick is timing. start on the low E string, and pick the root note, but dont stop the picking motion until your pick is resting on the next string. then, make sure you kill the note you just hit at the same time you push the pick past the next string. you're not really picking again, you're just continuing the motion you've already got going. they'll sound super clean if you start slow and make sure that you're only letting one ring at a time. gradually as it feels more natural, you can go a little faster.\n\nwhen you get that down, change directions. eventually you can add in some slides, hammer-ons, etc.
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while holding the guitar, walk over and face the amp. turn it on realy loud. instant feedback
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I am great at this! You simply rest the side of your picking hand (pinky side) against the strings to keep the guitar strings from sustaining and it kinda deadens the sound a bit but it takes practice to do it right!
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Actually,you could do like Hendrix did with his right handed Stratocaster guitar and just flip your guitar around like you hold it (which would technically be upside down),and restring the strings so that your fat "E" is on top ! EADGB  This may work ,till you can get a lefty .Your knobs may be at the top of guitar now ,but you should still be able to jam ! :o)
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try guitartabuniverse.com
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The most common key is C, but that shouldn't matter when you're tuning a guitar. I would reccommend just tuning to a piano, if you have one.
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Make sure you're fretting in the middle.  Also, there could be a small burr in the neck of your guitar, or even a problem with the string.
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guitar center....get some extra light strings....and keeping playing.............like dont stop...everyday...they wont hurt anymore.......GOOD LUCK WITH THAT :)