Chords for Bonus Lesson: TUNING - Official James Taylor Guitar Lessons

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70.725 bpm
Chords used:

E

A

D

G

F#m

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Bonus Lesson: TUNING - Official James Taylor Guitar Lessons chords
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[E] [A]
[E] [A] [F#m]
[E] [A] [F#m]
[A] [E] [D]
[G]
Sounds great.
[N] No, it doesn't because it's out of tune.
It's out of tune
And we're going to talk a little bit about tuning now because you need to be in tune and it's it's an easy thing to do
These electronic tuners are fabulous and
and they're they're easy to use but
There are some fine points
to start with an acoustic guitar is is is not a
It's not a precise instrument
it
varies a lot
from guitar to guitar and
From under different playing styles as you play up the neck or whether or not you capo as I do
so
There are also different strings have different tendencies in terms of how they harmonize back and forth
over a period of time I've come up with a
Method of tuning the guitar that that really seems to address some of these conflicts that are part of the instrument
And what I would recommend is buying an electronic tuner that has aside from from a some indicator
That tells you when you're on the note so that you can get up to the right note
Also has this sense feature now a cent is one hundredth of a half step
[C] so it's a it's just a tiny increment of
Sharpness or flatness [E] and if you if you buy a tuner that's got a cent feature
That'll tell you how many cents sharp or flat you are then you can calibrate your tuning
To compensate for some of the vagaries and the inconsistencies in the instrument
so
What are those vagaries and what cause them?
One thing is that that bass strings tend to when you play them hard they ring sharp
so they'll tend to want to be a little bit flatter relatively speaking and
The B string for [F#] some reason [D] needs to be flat needs to be flat relative to what you would think of
As being it's a 440 dead on pitch.
That's just the way the instrument is
So I'm going to show you what we do
The when we tune the high E string we tune it three cents
flat of [E] what would be considered spot-on
Minus three the [B]
B string
We tune it to minus six
It seems like a lot [G] but the G string is minus four
The D string we [D] tune to minus eight
the [E] a string gets
[D] minus ten [A] and
[Fm] the low E string gets a full minus twelve [E] cents and
Now this sort of wide tuning where the bass strings are are as much as twelve
cents of flat [G] and
The high E string is just is almost all the way up to right on it that compensates for
The capo pulling the whole instrument a little bit sharp
It compensates for the bass strings tending to ring [E] sharper than they actually are sometimes for the bass strings
It's best to play a harmonic so that
Can you hit the on button for us again?
This machine has a couple of infuriating things
So
[A]
[D]
[E] [A]
[E] again, that's it minus three for the E string minus six for the B string
minus
four for the G string
Minus eight for the D string minus ten for the a and a full minus twelve for the E string check it out
See how it works for your guitar.
I think you'll like it
Key:  
E
2311
A
1231
D
1321
G
2131
F#m
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E
2311
A
1231
D
1321
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[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Sounds great.
[N] No, it doesn't because it's out of tune.
It's out of tune
And we're going to talk a little bit about tuning now because you need to be in tune and it's it's an easy thing to do
_ These electronic tuners are fabulous and
and they're they're easy to use but
There are some fine points
to start with an acoustic guitar is is is not a
It's not a precise instrument
it
varies a lot
from guitar to guitar and
From under different playing styles as you play up the neck or whether or not you capo as I do
so
There are also different strings have different tendencies in terms of how they harmonize back and forth
_ over a period of time I've come up with a
Method of tuning the guitar that that really seems to address some of these conflicts that are part of the instrument
And what I would recommend is buying an electronic tuner that has aside from from a some indicator
That tells you when you're on the note so that you can get up to the right note
Also has this sense feature now a cent is one hundredth of a half step
[C] so it's a it's just a tiny increment of
Sharpness or flatness [E] and if you if you buy a tuner that's got a cent feature
That'll tell you how many cents sharp or flat you are then you can calibrate your tuning
To compensate for some of the vagaries and the inconsistencies in the instrument
so
What are those vagaries and what cause them?
One thing is that that bass strings tend to when you play them hard they ring sharp
so they'll tend to want to be a little bit flatter relatively speaking and
The B string for [F#] some reason [D] needs to be flat needs to be flat relative to what you would think of
As being it's a 440 dead on pitch.
That's just the way the instrument is
So I'm going to show you what we do
The when we tune the high E string we tune it three cents
flat of [E] what would be considered spot-on _
_ _ _ _ _ Minus three the _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
B string
We tune it to minus six
It seems like a lot [G] but _ _ the G string is minus four
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ D string we [D] tune to minus eight
the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] a string gets
[D] minus ten _ [A] and _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] the low E string gets a full minus twelve [E] cents _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ and
Now this sort of wide tuning where the bass strings are are as much as twelve
cents of flat [G] and
The high E string is just is almost all the way up to right on it that compensates for
The capo pulling the whole instrument a little bit sharp
It compensates for the bass strings tending to ring [E] sharper than they actually are sometimes for the bass strings
It's best to play a harmonic so that
Can you hit the on button for us again? _
This machine has a couple of infuriating things
So _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] again, that's it minus three for the E string minus six for the B string
minus
four for the G string
Minus eight for the D string minus ten for the a and a full minus twelve for the E string check it out
See how it works for your guitar.
I think you'll like it _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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