Persuasive Essay On How To Playing A Guitar

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So you’ve decided to start to play the guitar. But before you start to play you have to first make sure that the guitar is tuned up right, otherwise you’ll sound pretty bad. There are 6 strings on the guitar and many ways to tune them. There are three normal ways to tune a guitar,either you can use a piano to help you tune, you can use a handheld tuner,or tune it by using your ears and listening to the pitch of the guitar itself . You can trust me in this because I was the best guitarist in my school and received a few awards, played in multiple places such as funerals,concerts,talent shows and more.
So, if you happen to have a piano with you, go up to it and find the higher pitched E note on the piano. Press it, then look down at your …show more content…

That is either a phone,or a tuner specifically made to tune a guitar. Personally I prefer a phone. For one thing it’s more accurate than the handheld tuner, and it’s easier. If you have a phone download an app called guitartuna, it is really easy to tune your guitar that way. What you do is you click on the little circle icon at the bottom of the screen, this will be the tuning section. Next click on one of the letters that are there, these are the guitar strings in order. Now set the phone on your guitar (your guitar must be in a flat position). Finally play the single string that you want tuned. The app has this arrow/pointer that tells you whether the guitar is to high of a pitch,to low of a pitch,or just right. Your goal to get the guitar tuned just right is to have the pointer be green and/or be pointing straight down the middle. When you play the note that you want if the tuner’s pointer points to the left than it is to high. If the pointer is pointing to the right than it is to low. This is all true with all tuners for guitar, except the older ones which honestly, I wouldn’t use because they are both inaccurate and super confusing. You do this to every string on the guitar until the tuner says they are all in perfect …show more content…

In this way you are going to be using your ears,and striking two notes at once. First, assume that the string closest to your face is in tune, E string, put your fingers on the 5th fret of that same string, put your finger on it and hold it down. Next play that note and the string below it,the A string, you don’t have to do it at the same time, you should play the one closer to your face first then play the one below that one. Now if they sound exactly the same then that means they are both in tune. If the A string is a bit higher/ lower than it is out of tune. What you do if this is the case you go to the knob of the A string( if you don’t know which that one is follow the string to it) and twist it according to the tune, lower twist left if it’s higher twist right. Next you have to do the same process over, put your finger on the fifth fret of the A string, then tune the one below it(D string). Do the same with the D string. Now that your at the G string, which is just a bit different, instead of putting your finger on the fifth fret you put it on the fourth instead. For the next two strings you put on the fifth

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