LESSON 30 ( Tuning the Guitar )

Tuning the Guitar

       Your guitar will need to be tuned before playing. Tuning involves tightening or loosening the strings to raise or lower the pitch to match a constant pitch. There are three main ways to tune your guitar. 

        You can tune your guitar by using an electronic tuner, or you can tune by “ear” using the other strings of the guitar, or you can tune to a keyboard.

Tuning with an Electric Tuner

         Many electric tuners come with a built in microphone for use with an acoustic guitar.If you are using an electric guitar you can plug your instrument cable directly into the tuner. 

          According to the directions of your specific tuner, it will display whether you need to tighten or loosen the string in order to be in tune. Electric tuners are an easy to use, fast, and accurate way to tune your guitar.

Tuning by Ear 

          You can also tune your guitar by listening carefully to the other strings and tuning each string to the others. Here is the process. 

· Put your finger on the fifth fret of the sixth string. Now, play the sixth string and the open fifth string. Listen to the two pitches. If the open fifth string sounds lower than the sixth string then tighten the fifth string tuning key until the two notes match. If the open fifth string sounds higher than the first note then loosen the fifth string tuning key.You always adjust the tuning keys of the open string, not the string that you are fretting.

· Next, play the fifth fret on the fifth string and the open fourth string underneath it. Listen to the two pitches carefully and adjust the open fourth string accordingly.

· Play the fourth string at the fifth fret. Listen and tune the open third string to it.

· To tune the second string, play the third string at the fourth fret and tune the open second string to it. This is the only string that does not use the fifth fret as the reference.

· Lastly, play the second string fingered back at the fifth fret and tune the open first string to it.

Tuning to a Keyboard

 You can also tune your guitar to a keyboard or piano.The open strings of a guitar correspond to certain notes on a keyboard. 

LESSON 29 ( Starting Off Right )

 The Parts of the Guitar

There are three main types of guitars, 

1- The steel-string acoustic,
2- The nylon string or classical guitar,

3- And the electric guitar.

 

The Names of the Strings  

             The six strings of a guitar are numbered from first to sixth
starting on the thinnest string and counting up to the thickest
string. 

            The strings also have letter names that correspond-to each string. Memorize the names of your strings. 

Proper Right Hand Technique

                Hold the pick between your thumb and first finger. The thumb and pick should form a 90 degree angle. The pick should be sticking out from underneath the thumb a 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch.

                Bracing your hand gives your hand the needed stability to accurately switch between strings. Although there are many different ways to brace, placing your pinky on the soundboard right
below the first string is the most common way. You don't need to press hard.

Proper Left Hand Technique

                  Hold your thumb on the back of the fingerboard on the upper side of the neck. Be careful not to put your thumb on top of the neck. Your wrist should be low with some air space between your palm and the neck of the guitar.

                  Your four fingers should be evenly spaced. Notice how the middle two fingers are coming straight onto the fretboard. Your first and fourth fingers are curved slightly toward the frets.

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LESSON 28 ( How To Be A Master of Guitar )

Always Follow These Steps For Learning

I                  Listen                  I                      Forget

I                  See                       I                      Remember

I                  Practice               I                       Learn

I                  Teach                   I                       Master

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch
the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

                                                                                                                                    ''Jarrar''

Step 5. Adjusting Your Pickup Height

Adjusting Your Pickup Height

              Set too high, pickups can cause a myriad of inexplicable
phenomena. 

Depress all of the strings at the last fret.

Using 6" ruler, measure the distance from the bottom of the 1st and
6th strings to top of the pole piece. 

Adjust the distance with the two outside pickup mounting screws. 

The distance should be greatest at the 6th string - neck pickup position,and closest at the 1st string - bridge pickup position.

The distance will vary according to the amount of magnetic pull of
the pickup.

When you’ve completed the above steps you should be
ready to rock. 

Remember guitars are tempered instruments,
re-tune, play and make further adjustments as needed. 

Most of all, have fun!

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Step 4. Setting Your String Height

Setting Your String Height

              Players with a light touch can get away with lower action,
others need higher action to avoid rattles.

Check tuning.
               Using 6" ruler, measure distance between bottom of strings and top of the 17th fret. 

           Adjust bridge saddles or if your saddles are preset, the bridge height adjustment screws, to approximately 4/64". 

            Experiment with the height until the desired sound and feel is achieved.

Step 3. Adjusting Your Truss Rod

 Adjusting Your Truss Rod

       The purpose of the truss rod is to counteract the tension placed on the neck by the strings. This tension can be affected by movement of the wood from environmental influences like temperature and humidity. 

To adjust your truss rod:

check your tuning, 
then install a capo at the 1st fret, 
depress the 6th string at the last fret.
With your feeler gauge,
check the gap between the bottom of the string and the top of the 8th fret - the measurement should be approximately .010".

Adjustment at headstock (Allen wrench):

If neck is too concave, 
(the guitar in playing position, 
looking up the neck towards the keys) turn the truss-rod 
nut counter clock-wise. Too convex—clockwise.




                  Adjustment at neck joint (Phillips screwdriver): 

If neck is too concave, 
turn the truss-rod nut clock-wise. Too convex—Counter clockwise.
Check your tuning, 
then check the gap again with the feeler gauge. 
In either case, if you meet excessive resistance or need
for adjustment, 
or you’re not comfortable with this adjustment,
take your guitar to your authorized Service Center.

Step 2. Making Bridge Adjustments

Setting Intonation

There are numerous types of bridges, but one basic point that should be remembered; ensure that there is sufficient break angle of the strings over the saddles (at least 30º).

          Much of the remainder of bridge adjustments, as in the case
of setting a floating tremolo, is determined by personal taste.At this point you can per-set the basic intonation of your guitar, by taking your tape measure and measuring from the inside of the nut to the center of the 12th fret (the wire, not the fingerboard).

         
           Double that measurement to find the scale length of your guitar. Adjust the 1st string bridge saddle to this scale length, measuring from the inside of the nut to the center of the bridge
saddle. 

          Then, adjust the distance of the 2nd string saddle back from the 1st saddle, using the gauge of the 2nd string as a measurement (Example: If the 2nd string is.011" you would move the 2nd string back .011" from the 1st saddle). 

    

           Move the 3rd back from the 2nd saddle, using the gauge of the 3rd string as a measurement. The 4th string saddle should be set parallel with the 2nd string saddle.Proceed with the 5th and 6th in the same method used for strings 2, and 3.