When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Drop-tuning with a set of standard-gauge guitar strings tends to lead to unstable tuning and ...

Just about the first thing you learn when you start playing guitar is how to tune your instrument, but unless you’re a musical prodigy with perfect pitch, chances are you’ll need some assistance in ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...

OK, we’re still on tuning by ear. Last week, we talked about the fifth-fret method. This week, we’ll talk about the octave method; then we’ll talk about the harmonics method. The most important thing ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

The days of needing to buy a guitar tuner or download an app are long gone now that Google Search has launched its very own built-in tuner. The new feature was added this week, according to Android ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...