A guitar tuner is an amazing help to guitarists of all stages of expertise. Every guitarist should learn how to use a tuner early in his career. They are small and compact and will come to your aid when your ear is too tired and emotional to tune your guitar with any accuracy. For many of us, tuning the guitar is more difficult than playing it, and a lot of time is wasted at gigs and during lessons trying to tune up by ear.
The notes on the open strings of your instrument are E A D G B E. Guitar tuners come in several different forms and make the work of tuning easier to varying degrees.
Although a guitar player tuning his axe by ear might look cool, the fact is that nobody’s ear is as good as a decent electronic tuner. You could forget all about trying to train your ear altogether and just make sure your tuner goes everywhere that you and your guitar go.
An electronic tuner tells the guitarist if the note he is playing on each open string of his instrument is at the correct frequency. Electronic guitar tuning gizmos can vary greatly in price but the most expensive is not necessarily the best. Some tuners are just LEDs you can carry on stage with you if you are worried about your instrument’s capacity to stay in tune, and some are sophisticated enough to be able to tune many different instruments.
