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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on April 23, 2017 at 12:29pm

Attach your tuner to the head near the machine heads, then bring the strings to tension, so they are just beyond being floppy and are starting to ring out, at this point your low g is probably reading around a c,c sharp, tighten it up to just beyond g, maybe g sharp, strum the string 20-30 times to let it settle, then loosen it below g a little, then carefully bring it back to g, do the same for the other strings and you are good to go, by tuning up from below your note, you eliminate any slack that might be in the tuners from tuning down to a note

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 24, 2017 at 2:25am

As Darryl said, the top string low G should be the first G you run into on the tuner once the string is no longer floppy.  The middle string D should sound the same as the low G string fingered at the 7th.  the bottom string high G should be the same as the low G 12th fret and the middle string D at the 5th fret.  that is your check that you haven't gone past your note.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 23, 2017 at 12:47pm

simple  . easy  . and funny  .

 

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on April 23, 2017 at 1:32pm

Thanks guys!

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on April 24, 2017 at 2:25am

Yup, I'm with pick. Knotlenny is a great source of useful info.

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Permalink Reply by Russell Bryant on April 24, 2017 at 2:33pm

Don;t listen to KnotLenny. With good cheap tuners going for $10 - $12 bucks just go ahead and get one. As for stringing the guitar there are plenty of good videos on the net. There is a good, simple one on justinguitar.com .  By the way, it's pbobably the best free guitar lesson site on the web if you decide to go into a full 6 string guitar.

New strings need to be stretched when you put them on or they will constantly need to be retuned. Tune them close to pitch and then put your fingers under the strings near the midpoint and slowly pull up on them. Put quite a bit of pressure on them. Retune again and repeat the stretching. Keep doing this until they hold tune after stretching.

Welcome to the insanity!!!

Russ

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on April 24, 2017 at 3:11pm

Thanks for the info. Seeing lots of different opinions on this. Guess it's gonna be through trial and error. I bought a nice Snark tuner. It was less than $15. I watched  a YouTube video of Justin Johnson use it to set his intonation. I figured he knows what he's doing. I hope it works for me. I want my CBG tuned as best as possible. Nothing could be worse than a beginner trying to learn on an out of tune CBG.

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