Play Guitar / Guitar Basics Tutorial - How to Tune a Guitar

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A common way to tune a guitar is illustrated by the graphic at the bottom of this page. However, the most accurate and easiest way to tune is with a store bought electronic tuner or a pitch source such as a pitch pipe, a tuning fork, or piano. If you don't have an available pitch source, or an electronic tuner, you will have to tune your guitar using the method described here: 

1. Tune your low E string close to what you think it should be.
2. Fret the E string at the 5th fret to obtain the A note.
3. Tune your A, or 5th, string to that note.
4. Do not press to hard on the E string at the 5th fret as you will cause the A note to go sharp (higher in pitch).
5. Once the A string has been tuned, fret it at the 5th fret to obtain a D note.
6. Tune your 4th, or D, string to that note.
7. Next, fret the D, or 4th, string at the 5th fret to obtain a G note.
8. Tune your G, or 3rd, string to that note.
9. Here's a change in the pattern. Fret the G, or 3rd, string at the 4th fret to hear a B note.
10. Use that note to tune your B, or 2nd, string.
11. Finally, fret the B, or 2nd, string at the 5th fret to obtain an E note.
12. Use that note to tune your E, or 1st, string