Free Online Guitar Tuner

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Our free online guitar tuner is provided by Don't Fret Productions™ for those guitar players who are new to tuning a guitar, or anyone else that needs a tune-up. Enjoy!

Don't forget to bookmark this page or download this free guitar tuner to your hard drive so you can use it any time!
The notes this tuner plays were recorded from Nick's 1984 Fender Stratocaster which was tuned to perfect A=440 tuning

How to use the Free Online Guitar Tuner

Our free online guitar tuner is a great tool to help you learn how to tune a guitar. Tuning your guitar is one of the most important things for a beginning guitar player to learn and is the first step to successful guitar playing. If your guitar is properly tuned you will always sound better. Your online guitar lessons will sound great with a tuned guitar.

Tuning your guitar is a process that takes time to learn, but gets easier with practice. You have to develop an "ear" for the right tone. If you play a chord, and it just doesn't sound quite right, you may have one or more strings out of tune, and you need to "tune up". You will soon become familiar with the tone of what "sharp" and "flat" sound like, in addition to what "in tune" sounds like. Soon you will know how to tune a guitar by ear.

To use the free online guitar tuner, click E on the left of the tuner (low E). Pluck your 6th (low / thickest) string on your guitar. Adjust the string pitch by tuning the corresponding tuning peg until it sounds the same as the guitar tuner. Next, click the A note. Adjust the tuning peg for the 5th string until it sounds the same as the A note on the tuner. Repeat this procedure with the rest of the strings. That's how easy it is to use the online guitar tuner. Turn up your computer speakers and click a note on the guitar tuner below to play it. Special Note: Some people can actually hear/feel the sound wave vibration that the "in tune" string makes. They know the individual string is in tune when they can't hear/feel the vibration (or oscillation, for the scientific minded) anymore. The wave sine is said to be flat. Some folks use combinations of both techniques!

Using our online guitar tuner, properly tune your guitar. Your guitar strings should be tuned to the following notes (low to high pitch) E, A, D, G, B, E . This is called standard tuning. Sometimes the strings are numbered, from bass to treble, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. There are many other possible tunings, but for the beginner, standard tuning is the best way to tune your guitar.

After tuning your guitar we suggest that you play around with the tuning on one string. Play with one note by raising the pitch slightly and listening to what "sharp" sounds like. Then lower the pitch back to "in tune" to hear what the "natural" note sounds like. Now lower the pitch and listen to what "flat" sounds like. Again, using our online guitar tuner, re-tune back to "in tune". Practice this technique on each string. This will help you learn to tune your guitar by ear.

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