- Tune your guitar every time you pick it up to play, guitars
can go out of tune sooner then you think.
- Avoid leaving your guitar in areas with extreme temperature
changes, this will definitely mess up the tuning. Dropping or bumping
the guitar will also make it go out of tune. Carry your guitar in a
case as any damage to it could effect how well it tunes up.
- In a noisy environment you will definitely want to use a
guitar tuner. You should purchase a quality tuner. You don’t need to
spend a lot. An inexpensive tuner or tuning fork is definitely good
enough to start out. Always bring it to gigs and jam sessions. But,
remember try to develop your ear by using the traditional guitar
tuning method when you can. In the long run you will be just that
much better of a musician. Only use a guitar tuner to tune the Low E
string and then tune the rest by ear. This will help develop your ear
as a musician.
- Learn to attach the strings to the machine heads properly.
- ALWAYS TUNE UP! When you tune a guitar string,
always start below the desired note and tune up to pitch not down to
pitch. This will help prevent the string from going flat during play.
Even if the note is too high you can stretch the string to give it
some slack then tighten it.
- Tuning heads have a certain amount of “play” in them so make
a couple of deep bends and then fine tune the string.
- Before tuning a suspect string, check it against both
adjacent strings to determine which string is actually out of tune.
The string you suspect may not even be the culprit.
- Play a chord that you know well to test the tuning, if it
sounds odd or out a bit it probably is, remember always trust you
ear.