Alright, now that we have a couple of the basic first steps out of the way, we want to be able to play together. But in order to do that, we need to tune our instrument. And when we tune our instrument, there's a couple ways to do that. Typically, we have some sort of electronic tuner. Some of us use an app on our phone. And there's so many different apps to be able to download for free.

There are some paid ones with the free ones are just fine generally have an advertisement along with them. Some use electronic tuners and you have to be really aware of the different type of types of tuners that are out there. Some are called chromatic tuners. And really, those are the ones that we're looking for when we're looking for a violin tuner. And instead of a guitar tuner, even though they have some of the same strings, some of The frequencies of frequencies that they use are one octave above or below where we're using our violin tones at so they become not reliable. So, definitely if you're going to use a mechanical tuner, we're going to want to use a chromatic tuner.

Some brands that I like our Korg Intel a touch and intelli tuners. There's a lot of other great ones like Sabine. And Peterson makes a wonderful, wonderful tuner, although they're much more expensive. So this is going to be more on the lines of what's the mechanics of my violin and how do I actually tune it and I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on how to get in tune with either the app on your phone that you download or mechanical tuner. So these are our tuning pegs and some inexpensive violins have on camber tuners and what that means is on this side, they're not flared out to keep it in a better snug fit, where there's just board out with the peg fitting in there with a friction fit. And some more expensive violence have camber tuners which are easier to tune with your tuning pegs and then some of us have these fine tuners.

And what you can see here as it is a couple parts that we have here is the MPEG one which was really mentioned before it gets tied in by these little nylon pieces sometimes gut that this is nylon And then it gets to the tail piece. And in my particular violin that I have, the fine tuners are these little knob things are built right into the tail piece. Okay? And some of them are not on the tail piece, but they're just little extensions that go fit right on the tuner on the strings themselves, and they get right about there. This little thing that you see here is called a mute, but that's not a tuner. So please don't think of this as a tuner because it kind of looks wonderful way back here.

But it's these little knobby things that we're looking at. So the idea is that if I use these to tune the tuning pegs, if I turn them they change the pitch quite a lot. They weren't were around so that changes it. For varying degrees, and if I use it, I'm going to want to make sure that I use it correctly. Because these next on violins don't have steel trusses in them like guitars do. And because it is a friction fit, we're going to require ourselves to hold the other side of the neck as we as we tune.

So me facing you, what I would do is I was I would actually put my hand on the on the neck, and then push in and turn to tighten it up. And if I'm loosening it, I'm just going to relax my hand and not push in and then let it let it relax as a unto itself. When I say to tune opportun down, this peg is going to go clockwise to tune it up. So clockwise may look differently on your screen, but trust me it's clockwise. right and if I don't push on it hard enough to fall back in a spot so that's why I need to put pressure inwards, inwards in on the peg so that it stays now you can kind of hear the tone without it dropping. Want to do that again, I'm just gonna put pressure on and I'm put if I push too hard, you're gonna have to learn a little bit how hard to push because if he pushed you hard, he can actually split the peg box but it's pretty unlikely to put that much pressure on it that you'd actually split the peg.

Okay, now even though this is an opportune quite yet, we're not going to worry about quite yet for this video, because we're going to show you how these work and Typically, these like I said, these these tuning pegs use a lot of distance between the low note and the high. And these guys down here, these fine tuners are aptly named because they tune them finally. So if I have this note, I can turn this a little bit and it barely you can barely hear it the tone but you can hear it coming up and pitch a little bit. And I'm going to turn this now fast. So I turned it quite a bit. And the intonation changed a small amount, but when I use the the tuning pegs themselves, they change the pitch quite a lot.

So the generally the key is, is you're going to get the tone, just under the pitch. So this is the E I would get it right underneath and eat and you're going to use your tuner, whatever tuner that you have, and you're going to get under the pitch. So if this is he it'll actually say little he up there he, right. And then that tuner that this is going to have this bar that we use. So this would be flat, and then it's going to come up just a bit underneath the tone that you want. And then you you fine tune it from there.

Some common problems that we that we use when we use our tuning pegs inner inner fine tuners is that these screws is really what they are, they have limits to them. So if I turn this all the way I can run out of limit now I can't. We're gonna have a hard time seeing this, where it is. But hopefully you can see that it In all the way, so I can't turn it anymore if I did, I don't want to force it. Because I can strip that screws just like any other screw screw the, the, the kinds of the screw could be stripped. So what I want to do in that case, if I can't get it all the way up to a tee and I just have a little bit left to go, I want to back it off all the way.

So turn it clockwise clockwise, is to tighten it counterclockwise is to loosen. So I'm turning it counterclockwise to loosen all the way. And now you can see how much higher that screw is then the rest because I've loosened it all the way. Now I'm ready to use my tuning peg to tune it up closer to where I want it to be. And then I can find you know the rest of the way now now that I have a little extra room to go. Now I'm a little bit What I need to do, but that's okay for right now.

So however you choose to tune your instrument, if you don't have a smartphone to be able to download an app. Or if you don't have enough money to buy a mechanical tuner, you can use a pitch pipe, you can use a keyboard, some sort of a tone generator, some people have other instruments that they can play these notes on. And the notes that we're using on the violin, or the littlest string is he the second string, or is an A, the third string is a D, and the fourth string is a G. So we have E, A, D, and G. Or I can use numbers and that's fine too. 1234 in the next Next video, I'll be giving you an audio representation of your E, A D and G string for a really long time that you can get your violin and pitch in just in case you don't know how to use a mechanical Tuner app on your phone.

And I'll be giving you some tips and tricks on how to get closer to the tone that I'm generating for you. So see you in the next lesson.