Tuning 6-String Guitars - Guild Acoustic guitar Owner's Manual & Warranty

Tuning 6-String Guitars

There are a couple of different methods for tuning
a guitar, depending on whether it is acoustic, electric
or an acoustic with a pickup. If you don't own an
electronic chromatic tuner with a reference tone, you
may want to purchase one. It will dramatically simplify
tuning your acoustic or electric guitar.
Always tune from below pitch up to the correct
pitch instead of down from a higher pitch. This will
help eliminate string slack from the tuning machine
and decrease the possibility of slippage and tuning
changes as you play. The strings should be tuned as
follows, starting from the thickest string to the
thinnest: E A D G B E.
If you have an acoustic guitar, use the A-440
reference tone on your tuner, a guitar pitch pipe, an
A-440 tuning fork or other pitch reference, and tune
the second string (A) to pitch.
Then depress the second (A) string at the 5th
fret to produce a D, and tune the D string to that
same pitch.
Next, depress the D string at the 5th fret, to produce
a G, and tune the G string until the pitches match. Then
depress the G string at the 4th fret to produce a B, and
tune the B string until the two pitches match.
Next, depress the B string at the 5th fret to produce
an E, and tune the thinnest string to a matching E.
Finally, go back and play the thickest E string
and tune it until the pitch at the 5th fret (an A)
matches the A on the adjacent string.
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