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Tuning your Guitar with a Piano

   Tuning your guitar with a Piano or Keyboard is a simple task. It is pretty easy and good for beginners because your only playing open strings on the guitar, so you can have a free hand to turn the pegs while the piano and the guitar are resonating. And you also tune each individual string, instead of getting one reference string and tuning the rest of the strings to it.

Open Strings - Down below I will talk about playing Open Strings. To play an Open String means to play a string without fretting anything. So that's why it's called Open.

tuning a guitar using a Piano


5th Fret Guitar Tuning Method

The picture above shows you each string on the guitar, it's same note on the Piano or Keyboard. Just Follow the picture for each individual string and tune the string utill it matches the Keyboard or Piano. Make sure you use the 'Middle C' on the picture as a reference point so you dont tune your guitar an octave too low, or too high.


Congratulations on tuning your guitar!

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K [08-03-2010 18:13] 

extremely helpful, thank you(:

James [07-03-2010 11:15]E-Mail  

Sir,

This is confusing. In your diagram Tuning a guitar using a Piano Middle C (C4) is shown nest to the upper E, therefore this upper E is E4. In the Electrical Tuner the upper E is shown as E5, i.e. 1 octave higher. Kindly let me know which is correct. TQ

Guest [06-03-2010 23:02] 

I wish I was an oscar mier weiner.

Guest [06-03-2010 23:00] 

My nuts itch, thanx (=

Guest [06-03-2010 22:57] 

My pp itches, but thank's this actually helped(=

Guest [06-03-2010 22:56] 

Viva la Pancho!!!!! Victoria Texas!!

Guest [28-02-2010 15:16]E-Mail  

ok i have a keybored and a guitar but i cant tune it by ear,i have one of the tuners on the site but it doesnt work good...is there any way i can plug my guitar into my keyboard and tune it on the keyboard?

rosie [21-02-2010 23:39] 

thanks so much. Used this easily

Gibson G. [29-01-2010 20:38]E-Mail  

ok i have a keybored and a guitar but i cant tune it by ear,i have one of the tuners on the site but it doesnt work good...is there any way i can plug my guitar into my keyboard and tune it on the keyboard?

Guest [29-01-2010 19:23] 

how do u know which way to tune it. like if its too sharp or too flat.

Guest [23-01-2010 09:33] 

Thanks, dude!
I've been waiting a month for my guitar, i thought it was a little out of tune, and i couldnt use my piano to tune it
now i know :)

Guest [09-01-2010 12:24] 

dude!!! SAME HERE!! I just got the guitar i've been wanting for months for christmas, but I kno nothing about music and had no idea how to tune it. thanx!

Guest [04-01-2010 16:22] 

awsome i just got one for xmas and i didnt no how 2 tune it this is awsome i can finally learn to play with my new book

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