Lesson 2

Tuning Your Guitar

It is very important to tune your guitar. You need to tune your guitar on a regular basis if you
want it to sound good and make practice enjoyable. At first tuning a guitar will be difficult but
this will change over time. It is advisable that if you know someone that is a guitar player, you
can have them tune your guitar for you. You can also simply learn to do it yourself. It just takes
practice and patience
.
There are different methods of tuning a guitar. All of the different methods are appropriate but
some are more convenient than others. This is especially important if you are just beginning to
learn the guitar.

A starting guitarist who is practicing by themselves, easy and convenient tuning methods are
best.

Beginning guitar players may want to purchase an inexpensive electric “guitar tuner”. This is a
great choice for beginning guitar players. Electronic tuners can pick up the sound of a string and
let you know through a display that the note is either too low (flat) or too high (sharp). Beginning
guitar player have difficulty telling when a string is not in tune by just listening so buying an
electric tuner can assist in making tuning faster and more precise.

Now , come to the point. As beginners has no ear skill of scale , they should tune guitar from experts. Another way is to use use laptop or desktop computer to tune the guitar. Here is the Article I posted earlier about tuning guitar by software .

Preparing your Fingers 

How to read Tabs 

Its essential to prepare your fingers for playing guitar comfortably .

 First of all you have to know how to read tabs... bcoz um gonna give you tabs to practice .

Take look

>>>

       E__________________________________________ String #1–High String
       B__________________________________________
T    G _________________________________________
A    D_________________________________________
B    A _________________________________________
       E__________________________________________ String #6-LOW String
*REMEMBER: The Top line is the highest sounding string that is
closest to the floor when playing the guitar. The Bottom line is the
LOW (thickest) String on the guitar.*

OK. To start I want you to look at your guitar and you will clearly see that it has six strings going from thickest to thinniest. On a TAB diagram, the thinnest string, (or 1st string as its most commonly called) is at the top - The thickest (or 6th string) is at the bottom. This is clearly demonstrated in the 1st example below.

The following diagram shows you how tablature relates to the guitar fret board:
Some of you may notice that this guitar seems upside down in relation to how you play. This
is simply the way that guitar music is generally written. Now if you transfer this same model to a written format you will get TAB, which can be seen below.

So the lines above indicate the strings on a guitar. The top line of the TAB being the thinnest string of the guitar, and the bottom line on the TAB chart indicating the thickest string of the guitar. Now if you look at your guitar you will see metal bars that raise up from the neck of the guitar called frets. TAB uses numbers to show you which one of these frets to press down and play.

For example, look at the tab diagram to the right and you can see that the 1st string (thinnest string) is being played. The number refers to the fret that you should press down. In this case the numberzero is displayed. This means that you shouldn’t press down anything.

So if you were to play the above piece of TAB on your guitar, you would pick the thinnest string once with your plucking hand and do nothing with your fret hand.

Now let's see if we can start pushing down some strings. Look at the next example below and try and play the note that the TAB chart displays.

If you pressed down the thickest string at the 3rd fret then you played the exercise correctly. If you are still unsure whether you are doing the right thing or not, refer to the video below.

Let's try another one. Play the following piece of TAB:

This TAB diagram above indicates the 2nd string (second thinnest) and you should be pressing down on the first fret.

Now , let's get to some practice >>>

Repeat 12 times at once with metronome on 120 bpm

e|———————————————————— —3–4–5–6—

B|—————————————————3–4–5–6—————

G|—————————————3–4–5–6—————————

D|—————————3–4–5–6————————————–

A|—————3–4–5–6—————————————————

E|–3–4–5–6——————————————————————

First you may start from 40 bpm... then try to reach upto 120 bpm.. practice minimum 40 minutes everyday
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