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OK, let's talk about tuning your guitar.

This is obviously a very important part of playing the instrument.

I recommend using an electronic tuner.

I use this little called tune.

I hear you can also use, you know, an app on your phone.

There's plenty of free guitar tuner apps on a smartphone these days.

The the notes on the guitar are.

A.

De.

G.

B.

And E!

So with your tuna, you'll try to get the note to be, you know, dead center.

You don't want it to be sharp, you don't have to be flat.

And if you've just put on a new set of strings or if you haven't played your guitar in a while, a good

practice is to stretch the strings a little bit, just like that.

So you just kind of pull them off the fingerboard a little bit.

Not too much.

You want to break the string, but just give them a quick little stretch and you'll find that they stay

in tune better.

If they've been stretched a little bit, so after stretching, I'll reach you in my strings and it's

good to tune up to the note.

Rather than shooting down from the note, if you go too far and you make the notes shop.

Then a great thing to do is to bring it all the way back down and then tune back up to the No.

And so I'm just getting that little tuning dial to be right in the middle where it has a green light.

So there you go, my strings in tune, my strings pretty much in tune.

You know, stretch the deal tomorrow and see if it goes out of tune.

There is a little bit flat, so.

You generally want to tune your guitar every time you play.

In fact, I'm a little OCD with tuning.

I'm always tuning the guitar, especially when I'm filming a chorus or, you know, in a recording session

or something like that.

But having a guitar in tune is is really, really important.

The most important part of being a musician is listening.

And you always want to be listening to the sound of your instrument, listening to the tone you're hearing,

listening to your timing and and feel listening to your body to make sure you're not, you know, tense

or, you know.

Straightening it all and you want to listen to the pitch, the tuning of your instrument, it's very

important.

So those are the notes of the strings, e, a, d, g, b, e, it's important to to remember those.

And an electronic tuner is your friend when learning the tune, because it's not like the 60s where

everyone's tuning by ear.

You know, I remember playing along to two records that were taught before electronic tuners were popular

and maybe, you know, not in concert pitch.

So we live in a wonderful time where these electronic tuners are very cheap and a very good thing to

keep in your guitar case.