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Location: Keller, TX | Can anyone explain to me how to tune by harmonics? I can tune by the 5th fret procedure, but would like to learn the tuning by harmonics procedure. I know how to make a string ?harmonize? by lightly touching the string and plucking it and listening to the harmonic pulses, but on which frets on which strings? |
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Location: So. Cal. | 6th string 5th fret -> 5th string 7th fret
5th string 5th fret -> 4th string 7th fret
4th string 5th fret -> 3rd string 7th fret
2nd string 5th fret -> 1st string 7th fret |
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| Couple of points - tuning to 5ths can be misleading on anything less than a very good guitar. And 5th fret harmonics are notoriously dodgy on cheaper guitars. The closer you get back to the nut the more important the position and the cut of the nut becomes.
And a guitar tuned perfectly to harmonics can reveal some horrible home truths about the accuracy of the fret installation. Sometimes relative tuning is the best you can get. ;) |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | The higher the action on the guitar, the more 'off' the harmonic tuning is. |
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Location: Florida | 6th string 12th fret -> 5th string 7th fret
5th string 12th fret -> 4th string 7th fret
4th string 12th fret -> 3rd string 7th fret
2nd string 12th fret -> 1st string 7th fret
B on the A string to open B string....
Actually, I do open E's and E on the D string all octaves too. |
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Tuning by harmonics
