Before you start playing those first chords or bashing out your first riff, you need to get your axe in tune. Here´s how! This diagram (right) shows the six strings as they´re laid out on the neck of ...

It’s understandable that professionals hire a stage guitar tech to tune up everything before they play. It’s not a job anyone enjoys. So we thought we’d run through some of the techniques ...

He also offers a custom guitar pickguard-making service called Tiny Tone. Let’s first think about how a string is tuned. It’s held at a very particular pitch, so when you change that tension the pitch ...

Tuning a guitar is one of the most important skills every guitarist should learn. If your guitar is out of tune, even the ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your ...

Some people are going to look at this system with a little contempt. "Why don't you just tune the guitar yourself? What's the matter, are you lazy?" they'll ask. "Don't you know how to tune?" ...

If you don't have a guitar tuner but do have a copy of Metallica's eponymous "black" album handy, you can tune your bottom E string to the first open E note of "Enter Sandman" (track 1).