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Tuning

How to Tune your Guitar

10 minute video on guitar tuning

In this section, we'll be learning how to tune your guitar and change to different tunings.

*Note that when I say, "The pitch changes because of the string length increasing/decreasing" I meant to say, "that it was because of the tension increasing/decreasing in the string".

• E (First string or thickest string)

• A

• D

• G

• B

• E (Last string or thinnest string)

Vocabulary in Section

Tunings

Standard Tuning

Drop-D Tuning

• D (First string or

• thickest string)

• A

• D

• G

• B

• E (Last string or thinnest string)

Acronym For Standard:

Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie

Acronym For Drop-D:

Drop-D tuning only changes the first string E to D