Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before you start playing those first chords or bashing out your first riff, you need to get your ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

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One of the oldest uses for smartphones was using the microphone to tune your guitar. Granted, it wasn’t all that great but it did work in a pinch. These days, guitar tuner apps are far better than ...