Hello All!
Yes I really am from Asbury Park, but unfortunately none of our 2nd son's (Bruuuuuuce) musical ability has rubbed of on me. :lol:
I'm an old fart, who after years of wishing that I could play geetar have finally decided to put some actions behind that desire. I have been looking around at various sites, and at some You Tube videos trying to figure out what end is up on this instrument (slight exaggeration), and have been having some fun playing with the different chords. After all this playing around however some of the strings occasionally need to be tuned, and there is what is at the heart of my dissonance!
Sometimes with the help of a electronic cheap tuner, I am able to tune the strings successfully, other times :BOING:, broken strings! I was wondering...and hoping that someone could provide me with a list of progressions (if that is the right word)?
For example, if I am trying to tune the G string and the tuner says it is B#, do I need to go up the scale or down?
I am not really that stupid...... I just play the part on TV! :oops:
Thanks in advance!
Ed
Welcome aboard Ed! 8)
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What a nice place, Ed, with or without the Boss, but I'll take it with the Bossman, Bruce Springsteen, another butterscotch Tele player :lol: , and the Stone Pony night club (baseball training too)... and I'll bet it's even cooler with you there, so welcome aboard! 8)
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It sounds to me like you're trying to tune the guitar too high. A tuner knows what "A" is, but not which octave it's in, so it will tell you that you have an "A", whether it's at 110Hz, 220Hz, 440Hz, 880Hz, etc.. So, trying to tune the A string to 220Hz ("G" string, 2nd fret) as opposed to 110Hz will be a continued source of frustration and broken strings.
I did a lesson on tuning (here) that may help you.
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I'm an old fart, who after years of wishing that I could play geetar have finally decided to put some actions behind that desire.
Well, you're in the right place then - there are literally HUNDREDS of us here who decided to take up guitar in our mid-to-late forties. Including me....I'd noodled about with 3 or 4 chords for about 20 years or so before I joined GN...since then I've learned a lot of new songs, but more importantly, learned a lot of theory - why you should use a 7th chord here, why you should use a minor chord here, etc etc etc.....
So start with the lessons, is my advice - they're not only well written, and give you a full song to learn at a time, but also tell you WHY you should be playing a certain chord here or there....
Enjoy the site, and if you see Bruce (the Boss) tell him from me, "thanks for all the great music!" - and, as an added bonus, there are a few songs of his in the Easy Song Database.
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Vic
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