FREE Online Guitar Tuner
FREE Online Guitar Tuner
In this web site you will find the best free online guitar tuner available. Tune your guitar with the most popular tunings and with a little luck, you are going to learn to tune by ear (if you don’t know it yet).
There are two ways for tuning a guitar. The first one is using an electronic tuner (you can find inexpensive tuner units in any guitar shop) The second one is learning to tune by ear.
If you are planning to tune your guitar by ear, we have programmed this online tuner for each one of the tunings found on the website. Use the online guitar tuner like a reference for the notes´ pitch. This information is necessary to adjust strings strength and obtain the desired note.
What is an online guitar tuner ? - a flash animation that shows the first two frets of the guitar. When hitting a selected string, it will sound the correct note. This way, you will be able to emulate (copying by ear) the sounds you hear from your computer speakers and reproduce them on the guitar.
Using the online tuner is easy, only click the note(s) that you need to tune up and then hit it. If they sound different, it means that that string is not in tuned. Look what happens:
If the sound of the string is a bit low* than the online guitar tuner, you have to strength the string tension.
If it is a bit high*, diminish the tension.
It can take only a few minutes to get both sounds alike.
Just then, repeat the process for the others strings.
Finally test with harmonics. Requires having all the strings tuned up together. If something sounds bad, test again each string until finding the “out-of- tune” one.
* The idea of “high” or “low” is subjective and hard to understand at the beginning. Only keep in mind that a "higher" sound is more similar to the thinnest strings/frets. (E.g. the highest sound of a guitar is the one produced picking first string at the 24th fret), and the "lower" sounds are those that seem to be emitted by the thicker strings. (E.g. the lowest sound would be the one produce by the 6th - or last - string played open). With the help of this free online guitar tuner and some practice, you can master this art. Also, it could be a good idea to train your ear or to get an electronic tuner. Good luck!