Guides
Short, first-hand guides to tuning: the methods, the hard cases, and what a phone can and cannot hear.
How to tune a guitarHow to tune a guitar to standard E A D G B E: with a tuner app, by ear using the fifth fret, and with harmonics. What the notes are, why strings drift, and how to make tuning stick.How to tune an electric guitar without an ampYes, you can tune an electric guitar unplugged. How a phone tuner hears an unplugged electric, why the low E is the hard string, and what to do when the needle will not settle.How to tune a guitar with your phoneTune a guitar with an iPhone: what a tuner app actually does, how to hold the phone, what the needle and cents mean, and what separates a good tuner app from a nagging one.