Online Tuners Are a Great Tool
There are times as a guitar player when you try to learn a particular song by ear but the notes just seem all wrong for your current guitar tuning.
Well, chances are the song could be written in an alternative tuning and unless you know what it is, the odds of hearing it naturally are lessened.
This is where an online guitar tuner can come in handy (no pun intended).
After finding the correct tuning, you can download the tuner and correctly tune your guitar where needed.
The rest is up to us, as in learning how to play the song that is.
Most guitar pieces are written in what is known as standard tuning: E, A, D, G, B, and E, low strings to high strings.
And most standard guitar tuners are designed to work in this format.
There are times however when an artist or composer pulls out a trick card and writes a very cool guitar piece in an alternative tuning.
A couple of guys who come to mind right away are John Mayer and Eddie Van Halen.
Nevertheless, there are methods to tuning your guitar to alternative tunings by using an online guitar tuner and actually listening to each note by ear.
