Is my acoustic guitar tuned right?

[jesper.olsen]

Hi!

I've just started playing the guitar for about 2 months now, started off by buying my freinds old electric guitar for 10 bucks with amp and all the stuff, CHEAP for a strat! Guess im just lucky.. And i tried out by tuning with fork, and digital accuracy and stuff, it all turned out well, and learned 12 chords to play, 3 songs, and some how, i just think that my electric guitar sounds too light to me, i guess im more to the acoutic warm deep reverb sounds. Well, i ended up buying an acoustic guitar for 40 bucks by my uncle an old washburn, god i love it! Now's the thing, i just tuned my guitar like i did with my electric, is that the right thing to to?? Well recorded it, so if there's some tuning freaks out there, please listen to this, and tell if i tuned i right, will ya?

Thanks for taking your time :)

[jesper.olsen]

oh forgot to post the file..

Ummm... Ran into some trouble here, cant find a way to get the file on the internet, can u guys help me out??

Urgh, haven't thougt about that ;)

Or another option is, that u can add my msn, and then i send the file to you its:

jmo@hihi.dk

[Willdridge]

The standard tuning for all guitars is EADGBe (E being the 6th, or lowest, string whilst e is the 1st or thinest string).

If you're tuned to this, then you're tuned the way most (or at least a significant number of) people play guitar.

That being said, there are many other ways you can tune a guitar (both acoustic and/or electric); some of these include DADGAD, DADGBe (or dropped D), open C, (which I can't remember the actually tuning for at the moment).

Have a browse around the site, sure there's been some lessons on tuning, but hopefully that's answered your question.

Check out the 'Listening Post' section, you'll be able to find some host-sites other people use, (as well as hearing some pretty nifty tracks), that's probably the best way to get your stuff on the internet.

[magicninja]

Soundclick.com is good for starters :)

[rockonn91]

electrics and acoustics sound different....but the tunings are typically the same even though, as willdridge has said, you can use different tunings.

electics typically sound higher, have that more light sound...especially with a strat. acoustics usually have a more full sound with a good mix of treble, mids and bass.

you can give your electric a fuller sound by experimenting with the settings on your amp.

try putting your treble on 6, mid on 4, bass on 5 or 6. and try putting your pickup selector on your guitar in the middle or all the way up (for your neck pup)

hope that helps. and soundclick is a great site to upload your music FOR FREE.

[R. Shackleferd]

Jon (the allmighty site creator) is supposed to be working on adding an online tuner here. But meanwhile there's also other tuners available online.

guitarshredshow (http://www.guitarshredshow.com/) has one in the lesson and jam section, and it's quite cool to play around with the licks while you're there too.

...open C, (which I can't remember the actually tuning for at the moment).
Not to add to any confusion, but this is one of my fav's...CGCGCE, with that E being flexible for going down a step or two (Eb or D) to change the overall open chord.

[Willdridge]

Not to add to any confusion, but this is one of my fav's...CGCGCE, with that E being flexible for going down a step or two (Eb or D) to change the overall open chord.

Thanks man - been a while since I've played open C!

It's always worth (I feel at least) trying out different tunings as they open whole new avenue's of playing and creativity. Saying that though, it's all down to what you want to be playing - if all the songs you want to learn to play are in standard tuning, don't worry about it, it's no crime at all.

Hope we're not confusing you and getting too far away from your original quesiton.

[jesper.olsen]

Thanks for all the useful answers!

It really helped me, THANKS guys!

Now both my guitars are tuned to EADGBe, and im not in doubt that it sounds right, i can just hear it, before it was like.. ahhh is it really tuned?? now its like... WOW its really tuned right :eek:

It's really fun to play, cuz the songs im playing now sounds like i wanted them :rolleyes:

THANKS AGAIN!!

l8t3r!

[hendryk]

just a question from a non english speaker:
when you say scale you mean like CDEFGABC? or what do you mean? :confused:

[Willdridge]

just a question from a non english speaker:
when you say scale you mean like CDEFGABC? or what do you mean? :confused:

C D E G F G A B is the C Major scale. There are many other scales, for example G Major, (G A B C D E F#), Bb Minor, (Bb C Db E F Gb Ab) and many, many others I won't bored you with.

So, to answer your actually question, "Scale" means the order notes are played in based on a particular "Key".

Hope that's of some use.

Regards,
Willdridge