Learning To Tune A Guitar

It will be more beneficial to you if you don't only learn how to play the guitar but also acquiring the skill how to tune it properly.As for most beginners, your ears aren't well acquainted yet to the guitar standard tune or to the right string harmony. Well, the standard guitar tune goes this way. The first string (which is the thinnest), is on E note, the second is on B, The third is on G, the fourth on D, the fifth on A and the sixth string (which is the thickest and the lowest sounding string) is on E. We can easily memorize those notes from the first to the sixth string by this phrase:"Every Body Gets Dinner At Eight", wherein the capital letters represent the notes from the 1st to 6th strings. Before we go to the tuning lesson, let me discuss some important points. First and foremost, about the metal bars and spaces that lies along the guitar neck or the fretboard. Some guitar lessons points to those metal bars as the "fret" whereas some lessons refers to the spaces as the frets that lies between those bars. In order for you not to get confused, it's much better to consider the spaces as the frets. Fret numbering starts from the first space that lies between the guitar nut and the first metal bar and it is called the "1st fret", the next space that lie between the 1st and 2nd metal bar will be called the "2nd fret" and so on and so forth going to the direction of the sound hole.

      Since you are still a beginner i suggest that you use a new set of strings and adjust it to the guitar standard tune to let you know how your guitar sound in the standard pitch, and to know how new strings sound it well in terms of tone stability and brightness. This will greatly help you in your quest to learn how to tune the guitar because old strings may not give you the right sounding condition and may not help set your tone hearing capability perfectly.

 Guitar Tuners
      There are various ways wherein you can tune your guitar. One is through the piano keyboard (see illustration below)

Second, is through the online guitar tuner 
There are many available guitar tuners online. You can always check there if your guitar still sounds in the right harmony. It's pretty helpful for us if we from time to time hear those standard string tones on guitar tuners in order to sink it deeper in our memory.