Saturday, February 5, 2011

Ways To Tune Your 3 4 Acoustic Guitar with an Electronic Tuner

By Courtney Lewinski


Standard-sized guitars are often too huge for young players since there is a hand span required in order to fret specific chords properly. A smaller sized 3 4 acoustic guitar is perfect for young player, since the guitar is scaled down by one fourth. Which means that the distance amongst frets is reduced and chords and tunes are much simpler to play. The ways to tune a 3 4 acoustic guitar is a lot the same as tuning a standard acoustic guitar. The strings are all the same pitch and the method of tuning is no different. Using an electronic tuner is probably the most accurate way to tune a 3/4 acoustic guitar.

Step 1. Plug the tuner into your guitar. With the use of a standardized guitar jack lead, attach the guitar to the tuner's input outlet. The tuner must be powered. You can also choose to use a clip-on tuner instead of using the electronic one, specifically for acoustic guitars. Clip-on tuners operate the same, the (blank) difference is the method by which they are receiving the note. In case you are using a clip-on tuner, be sure that the battery is fully charged then clip it to the headstock of the guitar.

Step 2. Turn on the tuner. Majority of the tuners turn on automatically at the time you connect; others may require you to depress a foot switch or manually press an on/off button. The tuner normally flashes or lights up when activated.

Step 3. Hit the top E string and observe the reading from the tuner. Your tuner will show either a dial or a line of LED lights. Both display methods are similar. It will have a center point on its display which suggests that a note is perfectly tune. Your aim is to have the dial hit the center point and have the center light illuminate by tuning the guitar string. If the top E string is not in tune, the dial points to the right if sharp and points to the left if flat . The distance on each side may differ in proportion to the level by which the string is out of tune.

Step 4. Adjust the tension of the guitar string in accordance with the tuner reading. For sharps, relax the pressure of the string by turning the tuning key. For flat readings increase the tension. Make use of a smooth, light action when turning the key to avoid breaking the string.

Step 5. Keep on doing this method to all the strings. As soon as you have your first string perfectly tuned, jump to the next one down. Some tuners might have to have you select the string by hand for which you are tuning by simply hitting a switch. Other tuners will identify the string you are tuning automatically.

Step 6. Play a basic guitar chord, for example an open E or an open A, and pay attention for any clashing or dissonant notes. At times the tuning process needs a bit of adjusting as guitar strings may slip after being tight them up.




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