Harmonic Tuning - The Last

The last one is at position 2nd string – 5th fret compared to 1st string – 7th fret. These last two strings have the same pattern as the first ones and you might notice that they are not resonating as loud as the other patterns. Well, this is normal and simply because you are plucking the thinnest strings of all. Anyway, just be light with your fingers and release as quick as possible after plucking when tuning these strings. These are natural harmonic B-notes also, by the way.

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2nd to the last Harmonics

For the natural harmonic B-notes, some guitar players use a combination of a natural harmonic and a normal note at the position 6th string – 7th fret and 2nd string – open fret. But the said combination does not really resonate with each other resulting to some difficulty in hearing it. It might work well with electric guitars with effects, though. What I recommend is on the position 6th string – 7th fret with the far 2nd string – 12th fret, which are both natural harmonics and this combination resonates well. Please remember that you have to pick the second string as immediate as possible so that you can clearly hear the resonating sound. Try it out!

Still on Natural Harmonics

As everybody used to say, practice makes perfect so just repeat that first step again and again and when you get the hang of it, it will be easy for you. The next position in this section is at 5th string – 5th fret and 4th string – 7th fret. This is actually the same pattern as the first. And these are the natural harmonic A-notes.

Still with the same pattern, go to 4th string – 5th fret and 3rd string – 7th fret. These are your natural harmonic D-notes.

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The Natural Harmonic Style

This type is, for me, the most accurate of all the manual types of tuning aguitar. It is best used in electric guitars especially with some distortion effects. But it is sure applicable also for an acoustic guitar. It uses the resonance effect of the two strings that have the same pitch that vibrate at the same time. Well, you have to go back a little in your school days learning about Physics to understand this thoroughly. But don’t you worry, it’s really easy! Please loosen up your fingers for a while for a natural harmonic to play a good sound you don’t need to press the string on the fretboard. All you’ve got to do is touch your finger just above the string on a specific position where a natural harmonic sounds and release your finger immediately.

In this case, for our first step, it is located at the 6th string – 5th fret (some point near the 5th metal fret, that is. All of our natural harmonic notes will always fall near or on the metal fret position). The string that should be plucked almost immediately after that one is at 5th string – 7th metal fret position. These are the E-notes in natural harmonic.

Now, as these two strings vibrate, a sound can be heard either in a slow or fast rate. A slow rate means that you are near or almost near to the exact same tune of the two strings while a fast rate means the opposite. Your tune is far or moving away from the exact note. Also, you will hear a low pitch fast rate sound if you are moving below the note and a high pitch fast rate sound if you are moving above the note. Please try this in actual thing so that you can fully understand what I am saying and just go back to this procedure from time to time.

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The E-note Method

As the word implies, this method uses the note of E and its octave notes to tune the guitar. Basically, we will be identifying the E-notes for each string and have them tuned on the said note. So, the first thing to do is compare the positions of 6th string – open fret and 5th string – 7th fret. They should have octave sounds of an E-note.

Then the same 6th string – open fret compared to 4th string – 2nd fret.

Next would be the 5th string – 7th fret with the 3rd string – 9th fret.

Don’t take your hands off now and just use your comfortable finger on this one because you’ll be using the same 3rd string – 9th fret with 1st string – open fret.

Finally, just continue to pick on the 1st string – open fret and transfer your left hand to 2nd string – 5th fret.

All of those E-notes should have the same octave sound with each other. So, adjust accordingly, slowly and perfectly to get the correct tune.

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My Second Method

1) I also call this an old farmer’s method because modern guitar players seldom use this style in tuning. Because we will be starting the strings from down going up, it is advisable to tune the high E string to a reference pitch note. So, here it goes…start with the lowest string; 1st string – 3rd fret and 3rd string – open fret. This is the G-note (this is actually a high G-note and a low G-note, which is actually what we mean by an octave note. They should have the same sound with one, an octave higher or lower whichever is your reference).

2) Next is the same pattern as the first but we go up one string so this should be done at 2nd string – 3rd fret and 4th string – open fret. These are the high D-note and low D-note, one octave difference also.

3) This time, 3rd string – 2nd fret and 5th string – open fret will be the A-notes. The pattern is just one fret lower off-set to the previous pattern.

4) Last but not the least is the E-notes. This is done at the 4th string – 2nd fret and 6th string – open fret.

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My First Method in Guitar Tuning

Here is one of the methods I personally use that I believe would work very well. For our training, we will be using nth string – nth fret format that would mean the number of string from 1~6 being 1 as the lower string (high E-note or the thinnest string) and 6 as the upper string (low E-note or the thickest string) with the nth number of fret where it is to be pressed and the open string will be at the open fret. Also, we will be assigning 1~5 for the left hand fingers with 1 as the little finger going to 5 as the thumb. For tuning, you can freely use the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th finger for pressing. It is assumed that for every position given, you pluck the string preferably in a downward stroke first and as you go to the next note you can use an upward or a downward stroke.

1) The Conventional Way

a) Start with the 6th string – 5th fret. This position should be the same note, as well as sound, with the 5th string – open fret. Adjust the 5th string by turning the corresponding tuning key clockwise or counterclockwise. This is the A-note.

b) The next step is actually the same pattern with that of the 1st procedure above. But this time you will be doing it at the 5th string – 5th fret and 4th string – open fret. This is the D-note.

c) We still have the same pattern again. You can do this with the 4th string – 5th fret and 3rd string – open fret. This is the G-note.

d) This time, we are going to have a different pattern where the position is at 3rd string – 4th fret and 2nd string – open fret. This is the B-note.

e) Last but not the least, the final tuning will be done at 2nd string – 5th fret and 1st string – open fret, copying the same pattern with the first 3 steps. This is the high E-note.

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