Tuning the Classical Guitar - How to Tune by Ear or with a Tuner

How to tune a classical guitar by ear or with an electronic tuner.

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Times and Topics
0:00 Intro
0:52 Tune your open string to mine
1:58 Importance of tuning by ear
2:37 Different Stages for Beginners to Advanced
3:54 Electronic Tuners or Apps
5:04 String to String Tuning
8:12 Tuning to a Piano or Tuning Fork
9:14 Tuning to One Reference String
12:21 Tuning with Harmonics
15:32 Checking Chords and Key References
17:18 How I Tune MY Guitar
19:26 Conclusion and Final Advice

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Practice Tuning Every Day – Learning to tune accurately is a skill that must be developed and practiced daily. I highly recommend you tune by ear every time you play the guitar but beginners can also have an electronic tuner around for accuracy after they try tuning by ear. It’s important to develop skills but I don’t my students playing way out of tune all week.

Tips: Always listen to the sound when tuning, never turn the tuning peg without the sound ringing if possible. You want to hear the sound go into tune. I recommend always tuning up into the correct pitch. If you have trouble zeroing in on the tuning, start from a much lower pitch and tune up into the correct one. I find this is much easier than doing micro adjustments up and down.

Stages/Levels – Because beginner guitarists don’t know the guitar fretboard very well they usually learn to tune in different ways at different stages of their development.

Stage 1 – Tune by ear using a piano or tuning fork, the string-to-string method, but also have an electric tuner or app around for help and as a time saver.

Stage 2 – Tune as above and check the tuning with chords and some of the key you’re playing in.

Stage 3 – Tune referencing all notes to one string, checking with chords and the key of the piece you’re about to play. Also know how to use harmonics to tune.

Stage 4 – Use a combination of ways for efficiency and precision.

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