tuning

Pretty much every time you play it :D Git a guitar tuner :!: --the dog

Don't mean to sound harsh, but tuning your guitar every time you pick it up will make it sound a LOT better and it will make you want to play that much more :D When I started playing ( back in the cave man days) the cheapest tuners cost about $500--If you don't have one , get a $20 tuner :D It will set you free :!: --the dog

yeah i got one....i was just wondering how much i should tune it

yeah i got one....i was just wondering how much i should tune it
I tune every time I pick one of them up and whenever it sounds out of tune.

To quote Nils, but rephrase it a bit:
You tune it when it's out of tune.

I at least make sure I'm in relative tune.

I can hear it as soon as I hit a chord when it's out and it grates on my nerves.

Thats up to you how often to tune. After you've been playing for awhile you'll become familiar with how chords sound. Then when you play a chord it doesn't sound right you'll know its out of tune and it needs to be tuned.

Joe

Youll tune it more and more the longer you play. When I first started playing I would tune it every couple times i sat down to play, now I tune it every time I play and sometimes during the day when im bored Ill go through and tune all 8 of my babies... and polish them... and pet them... and love them... Yeah.

It also depends on how well your guitar stays in tune :D

And how much the strings are stretching - new steels bed in fairly quick, but nylon strings take a week to hold tune properly

A :-)

I had a work mate bring his guitar in to let me see it. He had only been playing a few weeks. It was so far out of tune it would need a passport to get back. When I mentioned that he retorted, " the guy in the shop tuned it before he gave me it". Needless to say my work mate wasn't progressing very quickly.

I had a work mate bring his guitar in to let me see it. He had only been playing a few weeks. It was so far out of tune it would need a passport to get back. When I mentioned that he retorted, " the guy in the shop tuned it before he gave me it". Needless to say my work mate wasn't progressing very quickly.

ROTFLMAO

Watch the guitar player at a show sometime. They often check their tuning every few songs.
But then, they probably put on new strings just before the show, too.

For practice, what I do is tune when I first pick up the guitar, and then after about half an hour, just to make sure nothing has changed.
I'm still learning what "good" sounds like (only been playing 3 months), so it helps to make sure that the guitar is still in tune.

It really sucks trying to learn a new chord, and thinking "is that what it's supposed to sound like", only to find yout that your guitar is out of tune, and the chord sounds a lot different after you correctly tune your guitar.