Guitar newbies tips #2 - Tuning your guitar's

Tuning your own guitar's is a first lesson to become a guitarist. With the help of electronic tuner, tuning nowadays become very easy and much more precise. In this post, i will share some of the tips on tuning your guitar.

Basically, there are 3 types of tuning: (read first from thickest to thinest strings):

1. Standard tuning: E-A-D-G-B-e (used on most guitar chord)

• Example of song for standard tuning: The Redjumpsuit Apperatus - Your Guardian Angel

2. 1/2 or Half step tuning (Drop D#): D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D# (# is also pronounce as sharp)
    1/2 or Half step tuning (Drop C#): C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D# (just change the starting D# with C#)

• Example of song for 1/2 step tuning: Chris Daughtry - Over You
• It's depend on the chord writer's him/herself whether to use drop D or C. But usually, most of the chord use drop D.

3. 1 or full step tuning (Drop D): D-G-C-F-A-D
    1 or full step tuning (Drop C): C-G-C-F-A-D

• Example of song for 1 step tuning: Bullet For My Valentine - Road To Nowhere

Guitarist tune their guitars to 1/2 or to full step down to create a deeper and heavier sound. Usually it is for rock and metal music. With the help of electronic tuner, this should be an easy job. But let say that u didn't have an electronic tuner.There are few things u can do to get urself a tuner. first u can go to youtube and type keyword "guitar tuner". You can even try to google to find the tuner software. The main idea is to find video or software that produce the sound needed so that u can hear and synchronize the sound of your guitar with the sound produced from the video/software.

• here is an online software to produce standard tuning (EADGBe) sound: Standard Tuning Tuner Application
• from youtube: Half Step Down Guitar Tuner
• from youtube: Full Step Down Guitar Tuner

Hope this helps, good luck and happy strumming =)