11 different tunings, including standard, half step down, full step down, and nearly every open chord tuning available Looped notes for users to tune by ear Three distinct guitar tones tailored to ...

One of the oldest uses for smartphones was using the microphone to tune your guitar. Granted, it wasn’t all that great but it did work in a pinch. These days, guitar tuner apps are far better than ...

I took my custom champagne-sparkle Telecaster electric guitar to a party last weekend full of local musicians. I’m used to people ogling the paint job, but this time they were ogling the back of the ...

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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, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Like other guitar tuning apps, the effectiveness of Google’s tuner seems to depend a lot on the hardware you’re ...

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Back in the stone age when I was learning to play guitar, there were only two ways to tune an instrument. By pitch pipe, or by ear. I wasn’t good at either method and was always frustrated that my ...

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, ...