Fundamentals of Guitar (page 11) - Tuning the Guitar

[@micahb2627]

These videos are greatly appreciated. Thank you for the effort. M.

[@JamieTaylorvRS]

Great video, thank you very much. Such essential knowledge, yet so rarely discussed!

[@VincentSteenstraToussaint]

Amazing, thanks miles!

[@Justino08]

Man, I loved your book, thanks for sharing. I've been dying to know, what do you think of true temperament fret systems? Have you seen these squiggly fret boards floating around?

[@MichaelCoffin]

Very helpful, thank you. Just ordered your book and am looking forward to better understanding the physics of my guitar! Stay well.

[@milesokazaki]

Great - I hope you dig it!

[@chipstern1]

Than you, Miles. A lot to think about.

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

Just discovered your videos. So much great info. I can't wait to get your book and check it all out!

[@milesokazaki]

Thanks John, Let me know if you have any questions. I certainly do!

[@slinkyphil]

Great video Miles!

[@armsfullofronan]

Hi Miles! This is awesome. Do you tune up this way on gigs, too? When there's potentially house music and other people tuning?

[@DrumminDoc]

hi Miles, at then end when you are making the new adjustments on the A D and G strings, you first get A to 440, then the D to the A, but a bit higher. I get that. When you tune the G, are you tuning to the D's new pitch, (it looks like you are) and if so, are you making the pitch of the G higher than the D's already sharpened pitch? or are you make it sharper to the original standard tuned A that was tuned to 440? And are you tuning the E lower to the standard A, and the B to the newly tuned E string (which is at the lower pitch) and then the high E to the newly tuned E? Would be great to see a little diagram the of the exact steps and string associated with those steps and at what positions on the frets for those strings concerning their harmonics. Great video, I think im almost there.

[@milesokazaki]

I'm tuning the 3rd partial of G to the 4th partial of D, and pushing it about 2 cents. The D is already about 2 cents sharp in relation to the A. Tuning the E, I go the other direction, pull it flat by about 2 cents. Then the B string is another 2 cents flat in relation to the E. The book has this all laid out visually at great length (maybe even too much detail!). The video is only an introduction to what's in the book. Best, Miles

[@stephenwood8010]

If you tune strings to fretted notes rather than partials do you avoid this problem?

[@milesokazaki]

Nope

[@nickcalabrese4829]

@@milesokazaki why is that? When I tune with frets, I can hear that it’s wrong, and so I assume there’s a compounding error in the same way as when tuning with harmonics, but where does the fret error come from? As I understand it, from your video the error from the harmonics is because those are just tempered, while the frets are equal tempered. That makes sense to me. But then if the frets are equal tempered, where is the error introduced when we tune with frets, since we’re now exclusively using equal temperament?