Tuning by Ear

[Neemo]

I'm so proud of myself ....after 12 years of playing i can finally tune the guitar without the use of a tuner!!!!

[CheapJon]

that's kinda bad


but congrats and i'm so happy for ya

[Neemo]

haha 

yeah well i never bothered to try and do it cuz i've always had a tuner with me...but my buddy has a guitar and he took it out for me to play with when i go there...but he doesnt havea tuner and it was really badly out of tune....so i put it back but i couldnt sit there and jsut look at it so i tried to tune it by ear and i surprised myself


then before the SB a different buddy had his guitar out and it was terrible too he was showing me what he learned how to play and i was like "ouch" so i took it and tuned his too...anyway i was all excited.


I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

[mrlee]

haha 

yeah well i never bothered to try and do it cuz i've always had a tuner with me...but my buddy has a guitar and he took it out for me to play with when i go there...but he doesnt havea tuner and it was really badly out of tune....so i put it back but i couldnt sit there and jsut look at it so i tried to tune it by ear and i surprised myself


then before the SB a different buddy had his guitar out and it was terrible too he was showing me what he learned how to play and i was like "ouch" so i took it and tuned his too...anyway i was all excited.


I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

i can only harmonic tune mainly, if its totally out i get rather lost.

[Neemo]

^ well i gotta really loosen the one string then bring it back...otherwise i cant hear the differences in resonation....its prolly not a standard tuning or anything but good enough that the strings are all in tune with each other.

i do the 5th fret above and open below way of tuning...havent tried the harmonics way yet...sounds like fun though, maybe i'll try that next time

(i'm assuming its done at the 12fret? )

[mrlee]

^ well i gotta really loosen the one string then bring it back...otherwise i cant hear the differences in resonation....its prolly not a standard tuning or anything but good enough that the strings are all in tune with each other.

i do the 5th fret above and open below way of tuning...havent tried the harmonics way yet...sounds like fun though, maybe i'll try that next time

(i'm assuming its done at the 12fret? )

i do it on 5th fret, as a bass player.

basically you lightly touch the string, and then pick it, get a good ring on the 7th fret below the string your tuning, then while its ringing, quickly do the same to the 5th fret on the string you are tuning, listen to the sound waves go in and out, the faster they are, the more out of tune it is, keep making them slower till they do it no more.

[Robman?]

I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

after 12 years?

But yeah, I'm pretty much at that point now, after playing for 14 months now. I just gotta memorize those damn modes 

[mrlee]

I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

after 12 years?

But yeah, I'm pretty much at that point now, after playing for 14 months now. I just gotta memorize those damn modes 

im currently doing modes n scales right now...its hard to remember lol!

[Robman?]

I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

after 12 years?

But yeah, I'm pretty much at that point now, after playing for 14 months now. I just gotta memorize those damn modes 

im currently doing modes n scales right now...its hard to remember lol!

yeah, the i memorized like all the notes in each key, but now i have to memorize which notes make up which mode.  so damn difficult

[Neemo]

I'm at a point now where things are just coming to me, on guitar so its just fun to play right now for me

after 12 years?

But yeah, I'm pretty much at that point now, after playing for 14 months now. I just gotta memorize those damn modes?

no i played for a while then put it up cuz i plateaued. then i pick it up every once in a while to mess around then put it down...then pick it up and improve by leaps and bounds,,,the taper off again...etc etc

this is one of those times where everythign just constantly seems to fall into place for me....i can learns songs in a couple hours...i can sing and play at the same time (even if i cant sing worth a shit) i finally managed to be able to tune by ear...it just goes on

also i didnt start playing until i was 19 so its been a bit slower process for me than for a younger person...hard to teach old dogs new tricks or so they say

i know a few scales but mostly i just learn tunes that i like...so i barely touched scales and modes...one of those things i wanna do at some point.

[greendog]

when you hold the 5th fret, pluck it, if it is in tune, the string below will vibrate on its own because it is the same note.