Tuning a Guitar

Creating great guitar music requires an instrument that is in tune. Create More Music wants you playing as soon as possible. Each string of the guitar needs to be tuned to a specific note for your guitar playing to sound its best. In standard six string guitar tuning, the notes for each string are E A D G B E from lowest to highest. To properly tune a guitar, you must determine whether each individual string is too low in pitch, too high in pitch or already perfectly in tune. If a string is too low in pitch, turn the tuning machine clockwise until it comes up to pitch. If the string is too high in pitch, turn the tuning machine counter clockwise until it comes down to the proper pitch. To determine how much higher or lower you need the string to go, use one of the following: ​

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