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Guitar halp (tunings off)

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GILLSKI
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So anyone who is familier with guitars help me out.   So ive been playing a song in open E tuning lately and today I tried to go back to Regular tuning eBGDAE and I have my electric tuner telling my Im tunes to regular tuning perfect.   But it sounds like complete shit?  what up with that?
Mar 23 2011 5:31PM
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Goku
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set the frequency to 440
Mar 23 2011 5:32PM
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GILLSKI
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Already is  Acoustic guitar btw thanks
Mar 23 2011 5:33PM
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Ehh...
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don't use a tuner go on youtube and look up the tuning and play it by ear.
Mar 23 2011 5:35PM
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GILLSKI
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Ive always used a tuner and havnt had a problem untill now
Mar 23 2011 5:37PM
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Winston_Smith
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I can tune my guitar by ear no tuner or reference noise needed, learn to do this
Mar 23 2011 5:39PM
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blah..
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Check the battery of the tuner, sounds stupid. But happened to me and I didn't realize it until much later.
Mar 23 2011 5:39PM
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GILLSKI
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it sounds fine by ear each string individual but together    ewwww
Mar 23 2011 5:41PM
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Mr.Turtle
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use harmonic tuning and made sure they're relatively tuned to each other starting with the e
Mar 23 2011 5:43PM
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3-6-steeze
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http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/
Mar 23 2011 5:47PM
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AWALLRUS.
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tune with your ears
Mar 23 2011 5:52PM
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