From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V1 #94 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Wednesday, December 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: SEC: guitar chords/tuning [James McGarry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 01:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: SEC: guitar chords/tuning On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 Songbird22@aol.com wrote: > the easist way to tune your guitar is w/t a guitar tuner. (or if you have a > piano . . .) No, no, Jess, the _easiest_ way to tune your guitar is to have your guitar tech run on stage, give you the spare and tune it backstage ;-) :-) (Read Dave Bidini's book _A_Long_Cold_Road_ to get a good sense of how silly my comment is - JM). > the cheapest ones will run you $10/15 and if you're looking for something more > they make more expensive/better ones, but the cheaper/standard one is probably > the best bet for a beginner. Even more basic for beginners is a single tuning fork, then using a string by string tuning. This also helps you familiarize yourself with the fret board and how scales work on the guitar. Its also cheaper than the better electric tuners. I've found some of the cheaper tuners waiver a bit on tone when the battery is low. and their 440 is an annoying buzz. The tuning fork you want is an A=440. This is the, um, fifth string. Tune this one first. Here are a few sites that explain some of this in detail, we'll much better than I could. I hand mine to my roommate/guitar tech and say in a happy, cheery voice, "Is this in tune?" :-) Actually I usually use Jess' method. http://www.afn.org/~guitarra/tune.html http://www.learn2.com/08/0853/0853.html http://www.primenet.com/~shara/tune/strings.htm Alternate Tunings (this is a good reference for the more experienced geetar player) http://shell.rmi.net/~sws/tune.html it mentions songs that were played with this tuning (no, unfortunately nothing by Emm... ...yet!) James. P.S. Yeah, I know like 8 chords and none of them fun! :-P I'm really a Brass Boy. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V1 #94 **********************************