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I am just cooling off from probably what is a beginner error……i spent nearly 1/2 hour trying to follow some chords on youtube, i am trying to speed up my chord progression, i just couldn’t get it to sound right, thinking maybe i was trapping an adjacent string i kept trying and trying being very careful and watching closely, i played the strings individually and all rang out true, i popped on my guiter tuner and made sure the tuning for each string was good, i readjusted and nope……no different, as a last resort i went online and found an online guitar tuner, my D string was out of tune by about 3/4 of a turn on the adjuster, i corrected it and then everything sounded good, my question then is why have a guitar tuner if you can’t trust it, i bookmarked the online tuner and am now going to use that, another $30 wasted…..Grrrr
Neil.
p.s i wanted to post my experience as it may be useful to others going through the same frustrations.
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It’s a good thing you knew something wasn’t right. When I started out & I’m showing my age here, there were no digital tuners. You tuned one note to a pitch fork or pitch pipe & then tuned the rest of the strings to that. It is good practice to tune one string using a tuner, then tune all the others to that note just using your ear (you can use your fingers to turn the machine head LOL). Check how good you were against the digital tuner.
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There are people who detune each string a half step or more every time they put their guitar away. I guess it helps with wear and tear not keeping it always strung so tight. Temperature changes affect tuning also. If you watch enough you tube videos, you will see players sometimes make a quick adjustment to a string that doesn’t sound quite right. Strings can come out of tune more quickly too if you are practicing bends a lot.
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lol….yes Darby, i took 2 guitar lessons at my local music shop when i first got the guitar so i could learn the proper way to hold the thing, and get the basics on chord work, my teacher told me that each time you pick up the guitar to play, check the tuning as a slight knock or wrong grab could send the guitar out of tune and all i heard was blah blah blah co’s i just wanted to play my fav songs as soon as possible…….now i know different :red:
Neil.
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