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I'm not really sure on the easiest way to tune my guitar down half a step. I have an electro-acoustic with a built in LCD tuner. So I pluck a string and will show me how out of tune it is to that string. It's brilliant. But I am stumped when it comes to tuning it to anything other than standard. I read somewhere that all you do is put the capo on the first fret and tune to standard? I can't really get that to work. Help? |
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Try using a chromatic tuner. There are ways of doing this with the guitar solely and the capo is one way. Another is training your ear to know what the bottom E string sounds a half-step lower and then tuning the above strings off it. But for the moment I'll tell you about a gadget that does this instead. When I read your comment that the built-in tuner shows 'how far out of tune it is to that string,' I'm inclined to believe it is a standard tuner, which means it's calibrated only for finding EADGBE. When you pick a string with a chromatic tuner hooked up/nearby the guitar, the needle/LCD display will respond by showing you the note you are closest to, regardless of whether or not it is the holy sextuplet of EADGBE. So for example, if you seriously unwound your bottom E string and picked it, the chromatic tuner will start pointing to the frequency it's closest to and stop when it finds it. (It could show "C#" or whatever, just an example, it could be anything). There are a lot of chromatic tuners. I recommend the Korg TM-40. It's cheap. Sam Ash or Guitar Center will have it. Select BestBuy stores with an expanded "Instrument" section now carry them too.
(20 Apr '11, 05:07)
Mike 1
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