Online Guitar Tuner

Click here for the free online guitar tuner (please allow some time to load).

Move your mouse over the strings to hear them sound.  The guitar tuning notes are sampled from an Ibanez super 70's jazz guitar which was tuned with an electronic guitar tuner to reference a=440Hz.

Guitar tuning isn't easy and is one of the problem areas most beginning guitar players struggle with.  Your ears have to be developed to hear the difference in pitch between 2 strings of the guitar.
Ear training is a must for every guitarist that's why it's a good idea to learn guitar tuning by ear.   Tuning your guitar with a piano, another guitar or an online guitar tuner like this one teach your ears to hear the difference between 2 tones.

Playing on a guitar that's out of tune is no fun, so it's also a good idea to buy an electronic guitar tuner.  Guitar tuners come in all kind of shapes and sizes, so as long as you don't have a sitar as your second instrument you'll do with a simple one.

The one I use is the Ibanze MU30 Digital Chromatic Tuner:

This guitar tuner has auto and manual tuning modes, is small in size and has a built in microphone so you can tune acoustic as well as electric guitars.

New and very cool: the very first robotic guitar tuner. This tuner tunes your guitar for you. It has a powerful gear motor that works with any pickup equiped 6-string. It winds or unwinds strings at the push of a button and beeps when your strings are in perfects pitch. How cool is that!?

Some more tips on how to tune a guitar:

• Always tune from flat to sharp, tune your strings up and not the other way round.  So if the pitch of your string is too high first turn the string a bit looser and then turn it up to the right pitch.
• After putting on a new set of strings you need to yank on the strings to stretch them.  You have to keep on pulling and tuning until the string doesn't go flat anymore.
• Sometimes it happens that strings don't glide well enough in the nut (see picture below).  You can fix this by tuning the string down and taking it out of the nut.  Then put some pencil fillings in the grooves of the nut.  You can do this by scratching the point of a pencil with a knife.
  
  
  
  
• Heavier strings stay in tune longer then lighter strings.
• It's impossible to tune old strings.