This document provides instructions on how to tune a guitar using three main methods: with a guitar tuner, using a piano or keyboard as a reference, or tuning the guitar strings relative to each other. It explains that each string is tuned to a specific note, and gives steps to tune each string by fretting and matching it to the note of an adjacent string. Electronic tuners make the process more accurate, but tuning can also be done by matching string pitches to a piano or tuning strings relative to each other using octave intervals.

1. How To Tune Your Guitar
- Biswarup Majumder

2.  If you want to be a guitar god, you need to have a properly tuned guitar.
 Tuning your guitar properly can make a huge difference on the impact of
your music.
 A nicely tuned instrument can send chills of musical ecstasy down your
audiences' spines, while a guitar with a poor tuning job might make the
audience cringe and you might be peeling tomato pulp off your face after
the show.
 Here I show you many methods on how to tune a guitar. So let’s start ….

3. Two Things To Remember
1) Know which note is assigned to each string on the guitar :

4. 2) Know the correct tuning pegs for each string :

5. 3 Ways To Tune A Guitar
1. By using a guitar tuner
2. By using a piano
3. By using octaves and reference notes

6. Tuning with a guitar tuner

7. Required Tools
Electronic Guitar Tuner Guitar Tuner for Android

8.  An electronic tuner reads the pitch of a sound and tells you
whether or not the pitch is correct.
 I have two physical tuners but most of the time I find myself
using an app called GuitarTuna for android phones. You can
use any app that you like as long as you make sure that it has a
strong user base, high rating and nice reviews.
 Until your ear is well trained in hearing pitches, this can be much
more accurate way to tune.

9. Tuning to a keyboard

10.  If you have a piano or electric keyboard nearby, play the correct
key (see diagram) and slowly turn the corresponding tuning key
until the sound of the string matches the sound of the keyboard.

11. Tuning the guitar to itself
[Relative Tuning]

12.  Tune the 6th string to E on the piano (or some other fixed pitch instrument). You
can also use an electronic guitar tuner.
 Depress the 6th string at the 5th fret. Play it and you will hear the note A, which is
the same note as the 5th string open. Turn the 5th string tuning key until the
pitch of the 5th string matches that of the 6th string.
 Depress the 5th string at the 5th fret. Play it and you will hear the note D, which is
the same note as the 4th string open. Turn the 4th string tuning key until the
pitch of the 4th string matches that of the 5th string.

13.  Depress the 4th string at the 5th fret. Play it and you will hear the note G, which is
the same note as the 3rd string open. Turn the 3rd string tuning key until the pitch
of the 3rd string matches that of the 4th string.
 Depress the 3rd string at the 4th fret. Play it and you will hear the note B, which is
the same note as the 2nd string open. Turn the 2nd string tuning key until the
pitch of the 2nd string matches that of the 3rd string.
 Depress the 2nd string at the 5th fret. Play it and you will hear the note E, which is
the same note as the 1st string open. Turn the 1st string tuning key until the pitch
of the 1st string matches that of the 2nd string.

15. Thank You
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