All right now we're going to be talking about tuning. Tuning is very important because when you play the guitar, you want it to sound, how it should, right? If it's out of tune, it's not going to sound how it should. So we want to make sure to be able to learn how to tune the guitar in order to do this. So let's get started. Some very, very fundamental music theory would be to understand that music is or music is named from the first seven letters of the alphabet, A through G, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. So you're gonna hear things like e chords, or like F chord or a minor chord or something like that.

And it's important to know that that's just coming from the first seven letters of the alphabet, right. So that being said, the strings are going to be named after the first seven letters are coming from one of those letters. And that's going to help us keep the guitar in tune. For example, this string is an Eastern that needs to stay in a string, if we want to be able to play the guitar and have it sound the way it should, right. So that's what tuning is. Let's do that.

So in order to learn the names of the strings, I'm going to teach you a sentence or an acronym. That's a little goofy, but it'll help. Alright, so I'll tell you the I'll tell you the string names first, and then teach you the acronym and then go from there work on tuning. So we have our low E here. I call it low E, because it's the lowest string on the guitar, it's low. Then we have a, a string, D string, then G, then B.

And then E. I call the high E string. So we have a low E string, high E string. Okay, II, A, D, G, B, E, acronym you could use is Eddie ate dynamite. Good bye, Eddie. I know it's a little silly, but it might help you to remember the names of the strings. Okay, I've seen my students use that, you know, just you can tell when they're thinking of the string names or like, and then you know, it's, it's kind of funny sometimes, but it helps it works, so why not?

Alright, so now that we have that down, and we want to tune the strings, so that they stay true to the names, their names, for example, the low E string or the eastern the Eastern, we need that to stay an E string not somehow morph into like an A or something like that. And you'll see you'll see what I mean. You'll see what I mean. Alright, so that's our goal. We're going to be tuning this low E string to start with the help of virtuosity tuner, which hopefully you've picked up already. If not, I would highly recommend doing it.

Really need to in order to build Tune, I recommend this snark tuner Eclipse on, it's just really convenient and easy to use. So let's start with the low E string. Now in order to tune it, we're going to be using what's called the tuning knob and turning it in a, you know, whichever direction we need in order to line up the string sound with that note. Now, I already have it in tune here, but I'll show you what it looks like if it's not in tune. So you can see how it's green and lined up right in the middle. Now, if it's not in tune, it looks it'll look something like this.

Okay, where it's not lined up in the middle, so we need to get to that point. Okay, now sometimes if it's really not in tune, it's even going to show a different letter name. Can we really want to get it back to the proper letter at that point. So here, I'm going to just tune in I'm gonna turn the knob. Now I'm gonna, I'm right now I'm what's called tighten the string to get it to go back up to the middle here where we need to be in tune. Okay, I'm tightening the string and turning it this way, you can see how the string connects to the tuning knob here, and it coils around this way.

So if I want to tighten it, I'm turning it this way. And that will, that will just happen, you'll learn, you know which way to turn it with practice and so on just by tuning into a bunch. So now if I'm too high, you can see how you can see how it goes really high actually, because it's even going up to an F which is nice. So you see I was going this way, so I need to go back down to where it's at the green. Go, go back down. Okay, back in the middle.

Now if you really want to do it right, a lot of times You just go a little below and then you tighten it back up to the middle. Okay. And when I was going back down, I was actually loosening the string. Okay, so I know this process is really tedious, I know, but it's just something you have to spend time doing so that the guitar is gonna sound like it should, right. Okay, so once you got that, we got my E string in tune, you go to the next string, what's the next string? Eddie ate dynamite.

Good bye, Eddie. So, Eddie hate. So hey, that's the A string, you'll start to memorize them too. Now I have it in tune, let's just say it's too is too high, like if the string is too tight, which means the pitch is too high, or the sound is too high and we need to get a bit lower. So we need to what's called loosening the string as I mentioned before, to get it back down to the middle here. As I'm loosening the string by turning it as needed, now you'll you'll just by, you know, turning the knobs and just working through this you'll figure out which goes up which goes down, which tightens at which loosens, it can go down so it went a little too low, and go back up, tighten the string, tighten the string back up to where it should be.

Now we're there where the, you know, the line or sometimes the tuners have an arrow is right in the middle there as best you can, as long as it generally stays there. So I'm just playing the string and then adjusting it a bit, playing the string and adjusting it and so on. Okay. And then you'd go through and do that for each string. So that's the general idea behind it. And it's good to try and do that each time you practice just in order to practice tuning, but also so that the guitar sounds how it should be when you go to play the guitar.

Okay. And that's it for this lesson.