Piano Tuning

One of the fundamentals of guitar, besides actually learning how to play, is learning how to tune the guitar. It is an inevitably challenging task at first, but like changing the strings on a guitar, it is something that becomes easier over time and is important if your guitar isn t tuned right, you won t sound good no matter how well you play.

Fortunately for beginners, the current electronic tuners make tuning a breeze. It is still worth learning, however, to tune a guitar the good old fashioned way using a piano or other reference. In this lesson, we ll go over both methods of tuning.

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There are several reasons why piano and keyboard players choose digital pianos over their acoustic counterparts.

Let’s talk about some of the main reasons.

1. There is no need for tuning.

Acoustic pianos have to be tuned once or twice a year. However, since the sounds of digital pianos are in digital format, they never go out of tune. Forget about paying a tuner all the time and save.

2. They are portable.

A regular upright piano could weigh over 500 lbs. A grand piano weighs a lot more. Compare this to digital pianos that weigh less than 100 lbs. You could easily carry one under your arm from gig to gig. Transportation is easy. The fact that many of them could be

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Tuning a guitar is defined as this: Altering the tuning pegs of a guitar so that each string sounds at the right note and / or pitch. In the guitar world, there are three types of tuning: relative tuning, electronic tuning and reference tuning. In this article I will talk about all three types of tuning.

There are many different kinds of notes that a guitar can tune to. Finger stylists and blues guitarists are known to use altered tunings. For all guitar tunings, there is a basic standard tuning and it is something all guitar players should adhere too, whether new or experienced. This tuning is generally defined as this: low to high, E, A, D, G, B and

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Piano playing is an art with unlimited possibilites. Pippi Longstocking made a remark in a film that can be used when you try to learn to play piano.

Pippi Longstocking is a nine-year-old Swedish girl in a series of children’s books. Pippi has red braids and is very unconventional, assertive, extraordinarily strong, and rich. She lives alone with a monkey and a horse in an old funny house. Her friends Tommy and Annika accompany her on her wild adventures.

One Christmas when she was alone in the house looking out through the window feeling lonesome her lyoung friends and the children from town came in a procession to her house surprising her with a Christmas present.

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Make your life enjoyable, buy a decent chromatic tuner. Don t try to tune your guitar by ear or by using a pitch pipe. If you are new to the instrument use a tuner. For example a Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner

Using a chromatic tuner is quite easy. Plug the guitar into the tuner using a standard guitar cord as if you were going to plug into an amp. Turn the tuner on.

Starting with the Low E (thickest string on the guitar) strike the string and adjust the tightness of the string with the tuning peg until the green light shines. If the red arrow is pointing to the right the string is SHARP and needs to be loosen, and if

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