How to Tune a Guitar by EarEver wondered how to tune a guitar by ear? Well, here’s a cool trick that I use to tune my guitar by ear.

Wherever possible, you should try to get a reference note. If you can hit a note on a piano, or from another guitar, or whatever, that’s great. Just try to make sure the note you work off of is in tune. You can even get a tuning fork and use this method with that.

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If there’s nothing around, that’s cool, don’t worry about it. At least your guitar can be in tune with itself. Knowing how to tune a guitar by ear can really benefit you if you’re playing at a campfire gig out in the boonies!

I use this method when I don’t have a guitar tuner handy, or when I’ve just recently tuned and there’s one string that’s going on the fritz. I can then adjust that string back into tune with the others really quick using the harmonics you’ll see in the video.

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You might also want to check out a related lesson I did on How To Use A Guitar Tuner.

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