Everybody knows how to tune a guitar and still, everybody struggles to get their instrument perfectly tuned. Learn how to eliminate all intonation and set-up issues of the instrument, understand the pros and cons of different tuning methods and finally be able to perfectly tune your guitar by ear or with a tuner.

This Custom Guitar Video Tutorial is meant to solve 99% of all the tuning issues you will ever run into. I am going to show you which factors influence the ability to perfectly tune a guitar. Many players underrate the importance of regularly changing the strings. The nut of the guitar can cause problems which make you think that the guitar is not in tune, even when it is. If the intonation is not set up right, we will never be able to perfectly tune the instrument. Inexperienced players fret the strings with too much emphasis and cause “out-of-tune” sounds even when the guitar is perfectly in tune. The next challenge is our Western Standard Tuning System. Without understanding the limitations of this system, it is hard to find the perfect compromise which will our ear accept the tuned guitar as “perfect”.

The Custom Guitar Video Tutorial will demonstrate different common tuning methods and show their limitations. You will get the theoretical background knowledge to understand how to overcome the limitations of our western standard 12-tone Equal Temperament tuning system and use it to your advantage.

The differences between "Equal" and "Just" tuning

Guitar tuners are not the perfect solution either. Our ear is at least as precise as a tuner. There are of course situations when the use of a guitar tuner is highly recommended. On stage or a noisy environment make the use of a guitar tuner inevitable. We need to understand that there are different kind of tuners which allow us to be more or less precise. The third part of this tutorial will show you the pros and cons of different models and how to use them to your advantage.

Part one of the Custom Guitar Video Tuning Tutorial deals with the technical issues of a guitar, the fretting problems of inexperienced players and shows the easiest tuning method and its huge disadvantages.

Tuning method suitable for beginners

Tuning problems caused by using this tuning method