Learn Electric Guitar

While it’s certainly possible to tune your guitar by ear, most guitarists will find having an electronic tuner to be convenient and helpful.  Compared to tuning by ear, using an electronic tuner is a much simpler process.  It won’t do anything to develop your ear, so you should still learn to tune without one, but [...]

Electronic tuners are cheap, accurate and readily available.  Even people with a very good ear will probably be able to tune faster with a tuner than by ear.  You can even get pedal tuners, that you can step on to tune quickly and silently, before stepping on them again and being ready to play straight [...]

An electric guitar really does sound a lot better when it’s in tune.  Even the nicest, priciest, most gorgeous fourteen thousand dollar special edition Les Paul will sound terrible if the tuning is out.  If you’re not sure exactly what you should tune to, here’s a guide. What tunings are out there? Standard tuning on [...]