How to Tune Your Guitar to a C Chord
- 1). Attach the tuner to your instrument via a instrument cable--or, if your tuner does not have an instrument jack, lay it on your knee in front of the guitar.
- 2). Pluck the sixth, or E string, with a pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone of the string reflected on the tuner drops from E to C. This will usually take four or five turns.
- 3). Pluck the fifth, or A string, with a pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone of the string reflected on the tuner drops from A to G. This will usually take two or three turns.
- 4). Pluck the fourth, or D, string with the pick and turn the tuning peg so that the tone decreases from D to C. Again, this usually takes two or three turns.
- 5). Pluck the second, or B, string with the pick and turn the tuning peg so that its tone increases from B to C. This will require fewer turns of the peg, as B to C is only a semitone difference, instead of a full tone.
- 6). Leave the fourth and sixth strings tuned as they are. Your strings are now tuned, from low to high: C, G, C, G, C and E.
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