How to tune a 12-string guitar - commented lesson -

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Uploaded by on Jun 6, 2007

You just have to heard the strings and tune your guitar in the same time ! I hope this tuto will help you !

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  • UP THE IRONS!!!

  • i thought the treble strings were done an octave up. i just didn't know the B and high E were tuned the SAME. good thing i don't own a 1 2string, lol!

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  • @SoftSailz It wasn´t directed at you per se (though it´s possible I started writing the post as a reply to yours accidentally so maybe it showed up as one). But yeah, you´re pretty much saying the same thing as me. Sorry ´bout that.

  • @ZuluPilot i think you should re-read what i wrote.

  • All this talk about tuning an octave higher is really kinda useless and probably just confusing for a lot of beginners. If you tune a six string, nobody tells you that you have to tune the high E two octaves higher. It just is like that. I you´d tune the thinner string the same as the thick one it would be too loose to play it properly. Your low E is an E note in the 2nd octave (E2), its treble string (or the low E on the 12th fret) an E3 and your high e is an E4.

  • @AdyinH0bo thats fine that way you do it. tune them all EADGBE. i have my 6 regular strings at EAGDBE and my smaller strings tuned the same EADGBE. the smaller EADG strings sound an octive higher than the thick EADG strings because they are smaller and give a higher pitched sound. and the last two (B and E) strings sound the same as the others because the strings are the same size as the other two B and E strings. the hard part is getting your fingers adjusted to playing with 12 strings lol.

  • Même en France on a du bon goût ! UP THE IRONS FROM FRANCE !

  • i dont understand...is he speaking french??

  • make a new vid, play strings twice and wait a bit between each pluck.

  • he doesnt LOOK French!

  • thank you!:-)

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