How to set up a guitar for a beginner
If you just bought a guitar and only recentlythey began to study music, then the tuning of the instrument will cause some difficulties, since your relative hearing is still rather weakly developed, and the concept of intervals may not yet be familiar. In this article, how to set up a guitar for a beginner and what additional devices are useful for this.
First of all, it is necessary to say that the guitar can be tuned in different ways. The standard system is considered to be EBGDAE (from the first string to the sixth). There are also lowered options, such as DAFCGD or DAFCG. We will only consider the case when it is necessary to tune the guitar to the beginner in the standard system, or, as they say, "in mi."
The surest way is to buy musical instruments in the store electronic tuner, which works from ordinary fingerbatteries. Today there are quite a few models of such a device, and the cost of them can be very different, but in any case it will always be possible to find an affordable option. The principle of the tuner is very simple. You turn on the device and pull each string, in turn, the name of the note will be displayed on the screen, and a special arrow will show, stretch or lower the string to achieve the correct note sound.
However, if you do not have a tuner, but you still need to adjust the guitar to a beginner, we recommend using some reference sound, the note of which you know for sure. For example, a tone in the handset of fixed telephones gives a "A", as well as any tuning fork (5th fret firststrings on an ordinary six-string guitar with a standard string). So we set up the first string. Then we hold the second string on the fifth fret (note "mi") and pull it, it should sound in unison with the first open string. As soon as we have achieved the correct sound of the second string, we proceed to the third one. It must be clamped already on the fourth fret (note "si") and to ensure that at this fret it sounds the same as the open second. For the fourth, fifth and sixth strings, the adjustment procedure is the same, all of them are tuned to the fifth fret.
It is also worth noting that a person better distinguishes high notes than low ones, so the guitar can be tuned with the help of flashers, which in the slang of musicians are still known as"Flags". Thanks to this extraction of sound, even on thick strings, it is possible to play high notes. The flashers are taken on the fifth fret of the sixth string and on the seventh fret of the fifth string, at the same time they should sound in unison, but the dissonance should be completely absent. In the same way, you can pair the fifth and fourth string, the fourth and third strings, and also the second and the first. The exception is only the third and the second, because they are flags give different notes.
In addition, to tune a guitar to a beginner, You can use octaves. For example, an open fifth string, second modethe third and fifth modes of the first give the same note "la" in different octaves. In turn, for an open sixth string, the second fret of the fourth and fifth fret of the second one will be one note "mi".
Train yourself to customize your instrument, in due course you will choose the most convenient method and learn how to adjust the tension of the strings according to the sound of chords and intervals.
Finally it is worth noting: if you want the guitar to properly build along the lines and keep the system long, you need correctly adjust the scale (the working length of each string), string height above the neck, as well as its deflection. To do this, we recommend that you contact a professional tuner for the instruments and do not try to adjust anything yourself in the guitar, so this can cause a breakdown.
