Hey there again, I'm going to give you some tips on how to tune your instrument. And the tuning device that I'm using is just a spare phone that I have. And I'm using an app called g strings is a free app for Samsung devices, Android devices. So with that being said, I'm just going to be looking down at this device, so you won't see me looking into the camera. But what I want to show you for this trick is a lot of people find it uncomfortable to tune at the beginning and they find themselves trying to hold the instrument and tune it while they pluck a note. But won't when we tune we're really going to want to try to use our bow when we tune to have a good sustained long note.

When we pluck when we tune we have A couple different tones that go on click. And I'll give you an example. can see that flash, it only read registers for a short period of time. And if for some devices that you're trying to use, it won't be a long enough signal or a long enough tone for to get an accurate reading. So we're going to want to use our bow. And when we use our bow, what's going to happen is you want to be able to access these fine tuners.

So at this point, we're assuming that you have it close to being in tune by using your tuning pegs. And now we're at that final spot where we want to use the spine tuners. So when I'm playing with my bow, I'm going to reach underneath so you can see that my arm is underneath this boat, right. So I'm going to turn my Hello my hand face towards my face. So if it were a mirror I knew looking at it and see myself and a reflection. And then I'm going to reach up and be able to turn these fine tuners as my bow is going on underneath my, my hand is underneath my bow.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get all of these attitudes a little bit, and I'm going to tune them up for you while looking down and using my tuner. So there's a couple things that you saw there. One is that when I was tuning, if I saw that I was really far away from a tone that I wanted to get to, I use these tuners and I moved them really fast. Because they're fine tuners, they only tuned so much. And if that's the case, I can tune them quite a bit and get the job of tuning done faster, rather than just turning it just a little bit at a time. And then when I finally get close to the note the nice slow down and I finally I use that fine tune as it's aptly named Finally, so I get it just just in tune.

The other thing that you saw me do This is after I went through and tuned all of the notes. I went back in tune them again. And the reason for that is these strings have tension on this neck that you see here. And in a lot of guitars or other instruments, there's this metal truss rod that's in there. And in violin specifically, or fiddles, they don't have that trust trust, you're just relying on the strength of this wooden neck and the power or the joist here of your heel. And it's likely that what you've done a great job on tuning one of your strings on will pull the other one or multiple strings out of tune at the same time.

So to counteract that effect, I go through the strings and I tuned them one by one, and then I go back and I tune them again. And if it's Still pretty far off on going to them again, or even a fourth time. So there's some tricks Korea some tips and tricks and help you get your violin in tune. If you have any other questions about getting your violin in tune. There's multiple ways of doing it. But this is going to be the most effective way and reach the largest audience for their delineation of how most people will tune their instruments.

And we'll see in the next lesson.