

To tune perfectly to the 5 th and 7 th harmonics on your guitar will mean, strictly speaking, that your guitar will be out of tune. it follows the tempered tuning, rather than the diatonic tuning. The reason for this is that your guitar is designed and built as a tempered instrument, i.e. I wonder how many guitarists are there in E2 reading this and asking "ay! What's wrong with this way, it's how I tune up!" The vast majority of people don't know that this will not really work. This is when one compares the 5 th and 7 th harmonics on adjacent strings, and tweaks the tuning pegs until the beat cancel disappears. The second popular method, which is actually what I hear most people doing, is another example of how not to tune your guitar.
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Even when you use this method and have gotten each adjacent strings as in-tune as your ear can resolve, when you strum a full Emaj chord I bet you can tell it still doesn't sound just right. You won't ever tune two strings to exactly the same frequency, so by the time you've gotten to the last string it probably won't be well in tune with the string you started at. This is because all errors you make in the tuning process will be compounded, just ask an experimental physicist. What you shouldn't do is tune the guitar by comparing open strings with the adjacent and lower pitched string fretted at the 5 th position through the strings. But after reading fricto's node, I might now say it is because they have been taught.
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If you asked me yesterday why beginners are often out of tune, I would say it is because they have not been taught how to correctly tune a guitar. Ack! No matter how well you're playing, you just can't sound good if your guitar isn't tuned properly. I have given a few lessons to novice guitarists and one thing I have noticed is this: when I hear a beginner pull out his/her beautiful new guitar and play, (s)he is almost always out of tune. Umm.okay, here's the thing, this is not how to properly tune a guitar. You are done! Use this procedure with different frets to achieve alternative tunings Tune the high E string open to the same pitch as the fifth fret on the B string open.Tune the B string open to the same pitch as the FOURTH fret on the G string open.Tune the G string open to the same pitch as the fifth fret on the D string open.Tune the D string open to the same pitch as the fifth fret on the A string using the above procedure.When the wabble stops, then you've got it. As the wabble decreases in speed, the pitches are getting closer together. When they are close, the sounds of the two strings will wabble. Alter the tuning of the E string until they do. Fret the string on the fifth fret, and pluck it and the A string open. Next, tune the low E string (the thickest one, the one on top).

You can also use an electronic device (called chromatic tuners or automatic tuners.)

Use another instrument, tuning fork or pitch pipe.
