Beginner’s Guide to Tuning Your Guitar: Easy Tips for Perfect Sound

[@MartyMusic]

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[@matthewlaw8268]

Didn’t work for me against the micro tuner

[@AshleyDavidson-j8y]

guess what I got my les paul epiphone special for CHISTMAS!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Lekkah666]

Hahaha 😂 nice!!

[@KB24toogood]

Nice! I got a Fender American Telecaster Pro 😃

[@AngryPickless]

Omg same!!!!

[@ThatGuy-w4t]

I got an epiphone sg standard lol

[@crushsatan]

The exciting music in the background really helps! It makes the video more exciting!!!

[@kinicky6460]

Marty I love your channel you pretty much taught me to play guitar. I would live if you did more bass lessons in your style of video. Hope you have a happy new year!

[@mikejagersma6553]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

[@JoshuaStephens-o7z]

Merry Christmas!

[@CoverdTulip]

Merry Christmas

[@harveybc]

I bought one of those expense box tuners you had to plug in back in the early 80's. Cost over a hundred and was hard enough to use. It had a switch you'd choose which string you were tuning and then have to interpret a row of flashing light. I'd usually just use to to tune the high E, then tune the rest from it, finally checking my tuning. Life is so much easier now.

[@MartyMusic]

Me too

[@johntiger5]

60 years ago I used my ear but I was a little flat.( Kinda like Hendrix) Then I used a tuning fork .(440) Then tuned the rest of the strings to the "tuned" string. Love the Snark now. Still can tune by ear. But, the Snark is spot on. Plus I just play un-electrified acoustic now. Happy Holidays Marty. You are a cool cat.

[@greenleaves6924]

A piece of advice, my son used Marty since age 6, he is now 10, set a time every night to play guitar, zero distractions, once a song is completed reward them, you don’t work for free why should they… then move to next song * don’t purchase cheap music equipment, you get cheap results

[@MartyMusic]

I agree, it’s important to invest in good quality equipment.

[@traviesoarcefan3063]

​@@MartyMusicEspecially tuning pegs. My new Epiphone SG Custom came with Grovers and a Graphtec nut. It's a nice starting point. 😃👍🏻

[@prezdentraygun8790]

Thanks for teaching the kids. Best lesson you can get on Christmas.

[@MartyMusic]

Thanks, glad you found it helpful!

[@kdm_entertainment]

I see the tactic here. A lot of people got guitars for christmas so this is the perfect go to video

[@lorddarkness403]

Merry Christmas and happy new year marty!

[@joshnorko5586]

Good stuff Marty! Merry Christmas!!🎄🎁

[@MartyMusic]

Happy holidays!

[@TommySG1]

Merry Christmas Marty!~

[@herondiaz7937]

Merry Christmas Marty 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎉🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

[@sulupeacecharles1397]

Thanks

[@MartyMusic]

No problem

[@saucerjock]

Hey Marty, when I first started playing electric, somewhere between Hey Jude and Enagoddadavida, was inspired by Saw you Standing and Jumping Jack. I found that the band needs a keyboard. Somewhere between rattling strings and breaking strings there was the 5th fret tuning. There was also a thing called the pitch pipe. Lots of spit came out of that thing. For cost there was also the tuning fork. Some people that really knew what they were doing used harmonics and 7th fret tuning. The real old timey musicians just picked up the guitar and twittled the keys a little and played some really good rock like it was nothing. Me I found a harmonica worked pretty good. Back to band, you need a keyboard. Also no drums, no band. Then there's lead vocals and chorus. A good penatonic won't get you very far. And if you really know your music theory, a horn section. Marty you have been playing 30 years and sound way better than I do. But then again I'm way better looking and fit within my weight category, studied nutricion. With a new guitar you should teach not only tuning, but their first song. Crank up the amp to the extreme and show how to do the 1 string Smoke on the Water. Cheers.

[@jogmas12]

Thanks Marty

[@dariusdarden9670]

Thanks 👍

[@MartyMusic]

No problem 👍

[@waynegram8907]

MARTY, make a video lesson about "Sweetened Tuning". EVH and others would use Sweetened Tuning and some Tuners pedals have Sweetened Tuning Options. Its used for open tunings for acoustic guitars to EVH using Triads on the D-G-E strings to tune to the intervals so they don't cause beating weaving problems in the tuning. EVH also calls this offset tuning

[@BriceSlappo-x3z]

Merry Christmas

[@saraharrison1330]

Can you please do a lesson on “take it easy” by the eagles. My dad has been begging me to learn it! I’ve been watching you for 4 years and I love your content❤ If you can could you please do a lesson on take it easy! Thank you, and Merry Christmas 🎄

[@markhinds]

I'm not sure Frey or Henley will allow that

[@duckman12569]

I'm not a beginner, just here to make sure my fundamentals are solid.

[@maxandwilfred6483]

You are the most inspiring KZbinr I’ve ever watched. You help me so much on my guitar journey I really want to learn this from you the song is I am all of me from shadow, the hedgehog

[@andrewmuelleranantababaji8073]

This made me just buy Petersen strobe tune with case clip on with case from my fav sweeerwater

[@splashesin8]

Good to know about the Eclipse tuner. It sounds like it could be the easiest to get a friend or stranger to look at and tell me what they see. Every place I would end up playing with or for other people is going to be inundated with masking bass sounds at pretty much 11, onstage, plus outside in any parked vehicle, and that's all. I know not to trust folks who can see, about when to cross a road, but something has to give when you "can still hear the music from the restroom." Having them look at a tuner onstage, is not life threatening. I mean there is, chicken wire. This reminds me I still need some of those hollowed out earplugs that let you still hear, enough, but sort of filter out some of the more painful decibels. I don't remember what those were called, (I don't mean a whole "in ears" system.) I'm guessing you probably know what I mean. At home I can tune by ear, and then use the little fender app tuner, on my old phone to make that "clink" sound when it's spot on, and then kind of check it against strings and frets all over the fretboard. The journey to, any venue is always going to be bumpy and like a simulation of a mechanical bull, bus depot, and busy highway right next to me. That, ...or a simulation of Roseanne Barr and Roseannadanna, in an SUV. 😊So it will need to be tuned again after I take it anywhere else.

[@williamb2612]

Merry Christmas! I tell you what, I cannot seem to find a good guitar lesson for Default (Wasting my Time). Would be awesome for you to give a brief tutorial for acoustic!

[@gloggare]

i remember back in the day you picked up your land line and the tone from that was G i think

[@MartyMusic]

A

[@4everapatriot298]

Can you do a video on how to play; Days of the new / touch, peel, and stand? Please and thank you.

[@Notmyname35]

Please teach us Morning Glory by Oasis!!!!!!

[@mckayclark7962]

please teach us “she danced her way (into my heart) by restless heart

[@penfold7800]

You forgot fine tuning by the fret method listening to the string vibrating after youve muted the one you fretted. I often use this method after using a tuner just to perfect it cos some of the cheaper tuners dont measure in such fine increments.

[@vintageswiss9096]

Saw the headstock in the thumbnail and thought we were getting a Les Paul tribute video...

[@scrubadubgrub]

could you do a tutorial on evil by interpol? merry christmas!

[@KylerJenkins-b4t]

Can you do 23 by Chayce Beckham. The intro is super cool

[@ThatGuy-w4t]

Please do a cherry pie by warrant tutorial

[@kashlitton3463]

we neeeed be quiet and drive-deftones

[@Tony-m9r4j]

Hey Martyyyy, you’ve taught me almost everything I know. But I have a song request. If you could do, bartender rehab. If you do it then the gutair gods shall bless you…..

[@mylogify]

It would be so funny if you said you're screwed unless you have robotuners, it's the only way to keep the guitar in tune, otherwise it'd be so hard, and it'd take months to tune up a guitar, it's the best invention ever made for guitar etc etc. for 15 minutes :D. Haha Cheers Marty!!

[@derekblair7]

Super Beginners. What if your Uber super super uber beginginner 😂 that’s me!

[@MartyMusic]

YOU CAN DO IT

[@ImogenScott-mw9ht]

are tuning apps good?

[@MartyMusic]

Pretty good if you’re in a pinch

[@bernardlaus9996]

Wonderful, it works even with a 6€ widget ❤

[@MartyMusic]

Yes it does!

[@sebastian20315]

please do a guide to changing your action cause i got a new harley benton acoustic for Christmas and it has a pretty high action that i can't play so i need a BETTER tutorial cause im dumb on how to change it please marty

[@ChiefVerdugo]

Hey Marty could and would you please do a video on south of heaven by slayer the whole song please

[@VernonTate-y1i]

You can also use elephants and donkeys grow big ears

[@xolilemdoko1433]

Hi sir. Is there any tuner for blind people?

[@alexdubey3151]

Even After Dinner Giant Boys Eat