Now You Know

[Session 5]

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Ive kinda done this to my guitar.Ive always run the B string a tad flat and run the rest just under A440 pitch.With a compensated wrap around tailpiece you learn to tune your guitar by both with my Pederson Strobe tuner and with your ear.When notes are to far off they quiver,the higher the gain the more you hear it. Ya hes pretty technical.

 

[PLX]

Learned this from my buddy Allen Garber (garbeaj) on the forums, many years ago when he was researching the Van Halen tunings off all the VH records.

RWTD:

1st string: Eb +17.0 cents
2nd string: Bb +29.0 cents
3rd string: F# +35.0 cents
4th string: C# +35.0 cents
5th string: Ab +35.0 cents
6th string: Eb +29.0 cents


YRGM:

High E: +25.5 cents from Eb
.....B: +23.0 cents from Bb
.....G: +23.0 cents from F#
.....D: +25.5 cents from Db
.....A: +25.5 cents from Ab
-Low E: +23.0 cents from Eb


"Panama"

1st string: Eb +38.0 cents
2nd string: Bb +33.0 cents
3rd string: F# +29.0 cents
4th string: C# +39.0 cents
5th string: Ab +30.0 cents
6th string: Eb +32.0 cents


Hear About It Later:

1st String: -34.0 Cents
2nd String: -34.0 Cents
3rd String: -22.0 Cents
4th String: -22.0 Cents
5th String: -22.0 Cents
6th String: -34.0 Cents (Drop Db Tuning)

Got a Peterson Strobo-Tuner and use my own "weird" tuning, to this day.

 

[gball]

I tune to concert pitch using a tuner, then "sweeten" by ear. We didn't know nothin' 'bout this stuff back in the day but we learned to do it by playing along with records and always seeming to be a few cents off here and there. Luckily can do it by ear now, and only very occasionally do I use an alternate tuning (and when I do it's most often going to be drop d, so easy peasy).

 

[iblive]

I tune to concert pitch using a tuner, then "sweeten" by ear. We didn't know nothin' 'bout this stuff back in the day but we learned to do it by playing along with records and always seeming to be a few cents off here and there. Luckily can do it by ear now, and only very occasionally do I use an alternate tuning (and when I do it's most often going to be drop d, so easy peasy).

sometimes I find myself tuning both the B and G just a touch flat. Someone told the human ear can detect slightly sharp but not slightly flat. Come in handy when one tens to go a little sharp when fretting a note.