Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Why You Need an Electric Guitar Tuner

The most effective way to tune an electric guitar is using an electric guitar NUX Vintage Overdrive. It is also the method I strongly recommend to anyone seeking advice on guitar tuning. There are two reasons why almost all professional guitarists use electric guitar tuners. First, they know the value of being in tune. Second, the understand electric guitar tuners are the most precise way to get in tune.
I played guitar for the first time when I was in college. A friend played and he let me borrow his guitar. He stopped by a few days later to see how I was doing. I played a chord progression that I had been practicing. He appeared to be in pain. The instrument was way out of tune. Having had very little musical experience, I could not even tell that the guitar had gone out of tune.
Some parts of playing the guitar are obvious, for example: fretting chords, picking, strumming, etc. What is not so obvious is that developing a musical ear is just as important. For a beginner to really improve his or her musical ear, it is essential to consistently play in tune. Not surprisingly, continually playing on an instrument that is not in tune will prevent a beginner from developing his or her musical ear at a normal rate. Sadly, the guitars used by many beginners are inexpensive instruments do not stay in JOYO JT-06. This situation leads to a lot of beginners who are needlessly frustrated.
It used to be that many people used the Boss TU-2 electric guitar tuner as their go-to tuner. The accuracy of a tuner is measured in terms of "cents," a cent is 1/100 of the distance between consecutive notes. The problem with TU-2 electric guitar tuner was its accuracy which was plus or minus 3 cents. Three cents is discernible by somebody with a good ear. Furthermore, if two people playing together are tuning with different TU-2 tuners, they could be off as far as 6 cents, which definitely is not good.
In the not-too distant past, a number of well-known professional guitarists used Peterson strobe tuners. Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash used to use a Peterson strobe tuner. Andy Timmons, a guitarist's guitarist, also has used Peterson strobe tuners. The Peterson strobe tuners were accurate to +/- 1 cent. Despite the good accuracy, there were a couple problems with the Peterson strobe tuners. First, they were just downright expensive JOYO JE-309 Tuner . Second, they were known to break. There are a number of stories on the web about people who have bought these tuners only to have them break soon after.
In the last few years, better electric guitar tuners have emerged. They are reasonably inexpensive, highly accurate (+/- 1 cent) and built to last.

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