Journey with the Kaiserlautern as the take you on a musical travelogue of North America! Our first stop is Broadway, with the first of two Gershwin overtures. Other stops include a hop down to Cuba, courtesy of Aaron Copland, the foothills of Kentucky with Arthur Benjamin and a generous helping of favorites from Oklahoma! Special treats on this enjoyable disc are a pair of ragtime dances from Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha, Garcia's spicy Huapango and rare performance of music from Livingston's Mr. Christopher Columbus!The goal of tuning is to put your strings in tune with each other. Remember to tune up by increasing the string tension. If you tune too far give the string a lot of slack and start the process again. Match the pitch of each string as closely as you can. Once you have that first note you proceed in an orderly manner tuning one string after another. Once you have tuned all six strings, go back and check them again.
Tuning your guitar is probably the most basic, but most important thing you should do before playing your guitar. Making sure your guitar is in tune is something that you should do as soon as you pick it up. This is all part of the process when you are learning how to play the guitar. The first thing you need to do when tuning your guitar is get a reference pitch. This is a process that takes time to learn, but gets easier with practice. One of the most reliable ways of tuning your guitar is by tuning each string to the one below it.
Useful Tips When Tuning Your Guitar
As a beginner you may find that tuning is very difficult and very frustrating. You can tune your guitar with an electronic tuner, which is pretty straight forward, and will save you time initially. Just make sure that when you are more confident to tune your guitar yourself, you try to move on to relative tuning methods, otherwise you will not develop a musical ear. Do not neglect learning the skill of tuning for yourself, as it is great for developing your ear. New guitarists tend to break a lot strings by tuning too far.
