EPTOn May 18 2011 12:14 emythrel wrote:
I teach guitar, and have been a professional musician for 12 years.... I know what im talking about... i doubt you do. I own a tuning fork that i use about once a year and have a guitar tuner on my phone (that took 10 secs to download and bout another 5 to load up) that is perfectly accurate for when im feeling lazy or have just completely restrung a guitar.
Any guitar tutor worth their money would tell you to get a tuning fork and learn to do it by ear. Once you can tune by ear, then get lazy..... its all about technique with guitar, saying to a beginner to use a tuner is like telling them that not fingering properly is ok....... simply wrong.
I also garantee I can get a guitar in perfect E without any tuner, its very easy with practice, the only time its hard is with a new set of strings because they stretch and the tone is different to a used string and I tune using harmonics, which is far more accurate than the 5/5/5/4/5 method
I teach guitar, and have been a professional musician for 12 years.... I know what im talking about... i doubt you do. I own a tuning fork that i use about once a year and have a guitar tuner on my phone (that took 10 secs to download and bout another 5 to load up) that is perfectly accurate for when im feeling lazy or have just completely restrung a guitar.
Any guitar tutor worth their money would tell you to get a tuning fork and learn to do it by ear. Once you can tune by ear, then get lazy..... its all about technique with guitar, saying to a beginner to use a tuner is like telling them that not fingering properly is ok....... simply wrong.
I also garantee I can get a guitar in perfect E without any tuner, its very easy with practice, the only time its hard is with a new set of strings because they stretch and the tone is different to a used string and I tune using harmonics, which is far more accurate than the 5/5/5/4/5 method
Yeah, it's easy, just sing the first line from Lola by the Kinks and tune to that note
lul
