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Now here is something that didn’t exist a few years ago - an online guitar tuner! Back in the days when I first picked up a guitar, tuning your guitar seemed like black magic. I certainly couldn’t comprehend it. But now you can just fire up your web browser and use an online guitar tuner.

These online guitar tuner things are so brain dead simple it is almost funny. You go find one on the web, and click the button to hear the right note - bingo, you have a true E. Then you tune your E string to the sound coming out of your computer speakers - you do this by comparing the sound coming out of your computer speakers (from the online guitar tuner) with the sound of your computer speakers.

Of course, you are trusting the web site to really have a true EADGBE… and you are dependent on your computer speakers to deliver a true sound. AND you are dependent 0n ears doing a good job of matching the sound of your guitar string with the sound of the online guitar tuner.

In other words, this is NOT a perfect system. But for someone just starting out, this is a quick and dirty way to get your guitar in tune. Or, if your electronic tuner went on the fritz or your batteries ran out and you have access to the Internet (in other words, you are not in the woods sitting around a campfire) and an online guitar tuner - then you are all set.

A better alternative is to just buy an electronic tuner. These things are suprisingly inexpensive, and they work GREAT. It is my firm opinion that EVERY guitar player should have one of these tuners. You can find a really good selection at this link.