Tuning your guitar to open E accomplishes a few different things. It’s possible you may have to go back and readjust some of the newly tuned strings, until your guitar adjusts to the new tension of these three strings.īe the first to know about new products, featured content, exclusive offers and giveaways. If you’ve tuned correctly, you should be able to hear all the familiar notes of an E major chord when you strum across all six open strings. Lastly, move over to the 3rd (G) string, and tune this one up just a half step to G#. This should match the tone of both the 6th string (one octave lower) and the 1st string (one octave higher). Next, do the same thing with the 4th (D) string, tuning it up one full step to E. The string should have the same tone as the B string, although that string will be an octave higher. Both the web and app versions give you the ability to adjust your settings and tune specifically to open E and other alternate tunings. You can use either the Electric Guitar Online Guitar Tuner or the Acoustic Guitar Online Tuner, or download the app to your phone. Pro tip: The Fender Online guitar tuner can help you tune your guitar to the correct note. Keep turning the peg and plucking the string until you reach the note B. Turn the tuning peg for this string away from you, raising the pitch of the string.

Here’s how you would adjust your strings from standard tuning to open E:

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