How do you prefer to tune? Or, which do you find easier and faster?
Tuning with an automatic tuner, chromatic tuner, or tuning from another pitch.
I use a chromatic tuner
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I only recently bought a tuner and well its useful I find given a reference pitch I can tune just as fast by ear. I still use a tuner if one is around so I can get perfect but most of the time I still tune by ear.
I use a chromatic tuner.
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I use a chromatic tuner as well.
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For a while, I've just been using a tuning fork, and I don't think my ear is good enough to tune from another pitch accurately... I think maybe I'll buy a chromatic tuner.
Its good to be able to do it all ways, in case you find your self somewhere without a tuner, but chromatic is the easiest i think.
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When I started out, I used the high-tech device available (a pitch pipe)... moved to using records (the opening D in Sweet Home Alabama was especially convenient), then using a piano when I got one, and now I use an electronic tuner. Tuning by relative pitch can leave you far enough off - I've seen guitars off by a minor third or even more - to affect the way a guitar plays.
I recommend all my students get electronic tuners, and I show them how to use them. A few still show up for lessons out of tune; I just tune them to my guitar by ear because it's faster (though less accurate) than using a tuner. I figure it's a better use of their money to be off a couple cents on any one string than to wait another minute and be in perfect tune.
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Have you seen the new strobe pick?
Have you seen the new strobe pick?
Yes, I have - it looks good for standard tuning, reasonable price, too.
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I'd think that an electronic tuner would be a lot more accurate, since you can plug right into it.
Chromatic tuner.
If you're sitting right next to a keyboard, though, that can be handy.
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Chromatic tuner, quick and easy
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The best reason to get an electronic tuner is that you can tune while everyone else is making noise around you.
When I'm playing in a smaller acoustic group, I'll tune my bass to one of the other guitars, as I know they may have a different reference, and then I use the harmonics to make sure I'm in tune with myself.
-Laz
Have you seen the new strobe pick?
What is it? A pick or a tuning device or all in one? Never heard of it.
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