Ive been playing for about 15 years and ive always thought something never sounded quite right. Ive tried different strings, different gauges, ive screwed up a few necks thinking the truss rod needed tweaking. Thought it was cheap guitars even if they werent that cheap. I just finally sprung for a martin instantly sounds better but when i tune it like this its the sound ive always tried to get but never quiet could. Thank you sir.

James Taylor does the exact same thing. He also has a KZread video out showing how he does it. I wish I knew this back in the day when I was playing guitar. The regular tuning never sounded exactly right.

@RandySchartiger

2 ай бұрын

very cool! thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know exactlly who all uses this method but knew a lot of big boys did. and thanks for checking out my videos!

For yrs I've thought my ears were out of whack but you just taught me that I was hearing correct.. 🤓 After I'd tune I'd strum a chord and adjust by ear because I could literally hear it out of tune even though it was tuned perfectly to the tuner.. Strange that tuner makers don't adjust for this... Thank for this video 👊💥🙂

Thanks. These six values exactly match the advice James Taylor gave in 2012, so I’d say they’re probably reliable.

Hey Randy, got a guitar around half way through Covid and have watched numerous of your vids trying to learn this sweet science, thanks for being you buddy! Cheers from Canada! 🇨🇦🥸

I would suggest starting from the low e as the lower strings put more tension on the neck than the higher strings, if you adjust them last they are more likely to put the higher strings out of tune.

So glad I stumbled across your channel Randy......you show and teach things that people totally disregard that are important and overlooked.....awesome job dude!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! I'm glad you found me too! I try to keep it on subject and explain it clear while keeping a little comedy in it too. Thanks for watching!

Hey Randy. Since watching your channel my house never sleeps but my guitar is in tune. Thank you.

Holy Crap! I took the time to test this, and it is REAL! Thanks Brother, a few years late, but you right!

@RandySchartiger

2 ай бұрын

thanks brother! I'm glad to hear it! and thanks for checking out my videos!

Recently subscribed to your channel Randy. You are one of the most friendly and informative KZreadr's On line. Thanks for all you do!

Randy, I too am glad I came across your videos. I am now subscribed. Quality! Thank you!

Brother Randy!! I was able to do the flat tuning with my old tuner.. Wow!! What a difference!! Thank you, Sir!!

Just wanted to say thanks. I got the app on my iPhone and my acoustic has never been in better tune; amazingly helpful video!!

just watched bonus tuning. great video! like watching your videos and hearing the music. Don't sell your self short, great picking under any circumstances. Thanks Randy. CHEERS!!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+soapbox geezer Thanks so much mate! I appreciate you tuning in and commenting! Cheers! :)

You are a rock star. This is the first time I've tuned my guitar and been happy with it the first time all the way up the neck. I owe you a beer sir. Thank you.

Wow man, great vid. I never thought there would be so much to it. Very detailed. TYFP!

I've known this concept for many years but never figured out exactly how many cents flat the tuning should be. I got close on most of it but you have it all figured out. Thank you very much!!! You will make my last years of guitar playing so much more enjoyable. P. S. the compensated nut theory is B.S. The thumbs down people are idiots and deserve to play out of tune.

@RandySchartiger

4 жыл бұрын

yep, we know that when a string is in tune and when it's pressed down to make a note we are stretching that string slightly, so by using this tuning correct it just enough to make chords in tune better. lots of the big boys use this tuning but none hardly ever talk about it. thanks for watching!

Great vid thanks - I don't guitarists talk enough about sweetened tunings and the massive improvements they can make

Hey Randy. I have tuned pianos in the past, and I am aware of adjusting the cents as one tunes up and down the scale. I never quite thought of this for the guitar until I saw this posting. Wow, thanks. This really does make a difference in the quality of the sound.

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

It really helps, no guitar in existence can be built or set up to intonate 100% on every string and every fret, that's where this tuning comes in, it helps compensate for that. Thanks for checking it out!

@themightychabunga2441

7 жыл бұрын

I love the guitar because it is imperfect like me,but this is a great way to be 'more' in tune over all. BTW James Taylor said he wants his tuning back,.. ...(lol!)

You are an awesome player. Glad I discovered this channel! Better late than never!

Yes dude ! It seems to have given it some clarity and sparkle WOW!

found this again, as the slip w the numbers disappered from my rack. An absolut worthwhile excercise and the sound is again creamy and full of timbre, thanx

Your knowledge is amazing. Thank you for sharing it!

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Faith! And thanks for checking out my videos!

thanks a lot! i had noticed this problem particularly on the B string not ringing very well with the G so i would drop the B and E a few cents but my friends thought i was just being silly. glad to know my ears aren't wrong.

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

I have to tune one of my guitars just as you said in order to make it intonate right. Weird how much difference there is in different guitars, like people lol thanks for viewing.

This way to tune the guitar is working for me! Awesome! My guitar sounds much nicer now! Thanks man! Keep it up! Cheers!

Hey man! That really seemed to help the overall sound of my guitar! I'm using a lowered tunning but it zeros back to dead center and the overall effect seems to be very good thanks dude man

This video changed my life. Brilliant! A formula that works! Thank you!

I must say a Big thank you for sharing this I,ve been playing since the late 50,s. I must try this on my banjo and mandoline,I dont think I,ll bother with the 12 string.Ha,ha. Thanks a million.

The exact cents will always depend on the neck of your guitar. Most of the error is from the bridge. What gypsies do, because they play a lot in the middle of the neck, is to tune the A 440 on the 5th fret of the E, then use octaves and fifths to tune the other strings, always using fretted notes.

@quayscenes

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that information! I have been having success with a similar approach - basically tuning fretted notes to a pitch generator. I have been trying to find info on anyone else using this approach. This gives me a great lead!

@TheIgnoramus

Жыл бұрын

That is one way to tune, but your 1st e string will always be too sharp.

@tikabass

Жыл бұрын

@@TheIgnoramus That depends on your guitar. Some will be too flat on open chords. The goal is to have the best tuning possible on barred chords.

You have mad skills for playing such a short time , Excellent.

Thanks for tip on the PGT app ..I compared it's readings to my Tu3 and it has excellent accuracy.YOUR ROOM IS THE COOLNESS LEADER OF ALL GUITAR CHANNELS.

Very cool, I'm definitely going to download that app. Digging that lick. Rock on brother!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+guitarstruggles That's one if not THE most accurate tuning apps I've ever used and probably my very favorite if I had to choose just one, it's better than most tuners in fact. Thanks for tuning in brother cheers! :)

Yes Randy... This little secret is used in most top recording studios. There is an alternative way of doing this however as most people don't have "cents" tuners First the science behind it.. When the string is first struck ... (The Attack) a note will be at its sharpest. From then on the movement of the string will decrease (The Decay) When 99 percent of people tune they will tune to the Decay. But... We don't say to the audience "Wait a second, that note I just just played will settle (For example to 440) to the right note. Thanks for hanging with me on this.... now hears the answer. Pluck your strings as you tune at the same velocity you would when playing... And keep plucking .... say 2 times a second..... this will tune to the Attack of the note, which is what you want the audience to hear. Try this.... and when you reference this, to the "Bonus" way you will see -3,-6,-4,-8,-10,-12.... (on a set of 12's) .... slightly different for 11's..... and when switching to electric guitar, because of thinner gauge strings being used and the sustain of notes the difference is tiny. Hope this helps!

Love that opening bit on the guitar.

This is the first time I've ever heard this thank you

Wow! It actually works! Thanks so much for this!Subscribed!Greetings from England.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Derin I'm glad you find it helpful, and thank you for subbing! It is very much appreciated!

Ok. First off, I have always tuned straight to A440. After watching your previous vid talking about the bonus tuning, I could really begin to HEAR what you were talking about as I played my guitar & especially up the neck. Normally I just use a clip on tuner, which doesn't read in cents. I download the da tuner app for android, but was struggling a bit cuz the cent meter was just all over the place for me and I couldn't really tell exactly where I was. After watching this video I understand much better, also having better luck with pro guitar tuner app and tuning the actual guitar! You can really hear the difference with the tuning and can't believe I've never heard of this before! Thank you very much Sir Randy!! Very much appreciated (and so useful, as always).

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Ronnie Williams You're welcome Ronnie! I don't know why this tuning is such a big secret or why so many big players use it yet hardly ever speak of it. But it does indeed make a huge difference, especially up the neck chords! Thanks for watching and commenting I'm glad it works for you! :)

@RRW276

8 жыл бұрын

+Randy Schartiger It is very helpful! It would neat if you could somehow adjust the settings of the app to customize it to the cent. So when you tune and get that meter right in the middle/green, you are essentially under the correct amount of cents (if that makes any sense). I wish I knew a thing or two about programming lol. Thanks again!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

***** That's a very interesting thought! It sure would make tuning much easier. hmm I'm going to look into this, an app pr tuner you could calibrate each individual string, that would be awesome!

I've been aware of the tuning intonation problem for a long time now and always compensate by tweaking it, once I'm tuned to A 440, but wasn't aware of how to drop the cents for each string. Much appreciated Randy !

@RandySchartiger

5 жыл бұрын

a lot of the big players do it, few of them ever talk about it tho. good luck man and thanks for watching!

Interesting info , Randy and beautiful playing! Greetings from Italy, Cristina

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Cristina S Thanks so much Cristina! I'm finally getting my hands back! Hopefully anyways. Thanks for watching! Hope you're having a great weekend! :)

@CristinaS

8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Randy. Happy week end, my friend :-)

Downloaded the app on my iPhone! Will try this soon! Thanks for the tip!

I`ve tuned my guitar for years thinking something isn`t right. With this new (Bonus) tuning it sounds right to me. I play along with a lot of hit songs from the last 60yrs and the guitars always sound a little different then I do with my 440 tuning , but not now. I found this Bonus Tuning by accident , I wasn`t even looking for it! I just played along with Peter and Gordon`s "A World Without Love! in E! I`ve played that song in 440 for years and today I played it with the Bonus Tuning! So today I thought it was me playing on the recording! Just Say `in! Thanks

@RandySchartiger

3 жыл бұрын

great to hear Keith! this tuning works on about every guitar I've tried it on and makes a huge difference! lots of pro players use it but you never hear it talked about much. thanks for checking it out and thanks for checking out my videos!

Hey guy, thanks for further explaining the cent values. In your other video I wasn't grasping what you were talking about. This video explained it all and makes perfect sense. I am not very experienced as i took up Guitar a year ago. I play a Fender DG60 Acoustic and really love the sound it produces but the upper registers were not at the proper intonation. This tuning advice has it sounding much better. Thank you.

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hammer! I'm happy to hear my videos are of help. This tuning does help even on a guitar with bad intonation its a big improvement. Thanks again for viewing!

Another great video. I enjoyed like always, Randy :-)

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+JennysCountryChannel Thank you Jenny! I really appreciate you!

so i got the app my two guitars which i have been standard tuning to the 0 taking you advide it made both my guitars sound amazing at least i think it is it resonates waaaay better so thanks man.

Randy, your bonus tuning works for my Taylor.. thanks again for your knowledge

@RandySchartiger

6 жыл бұрын

good to hear! thanks for checking it out!

This was one of those videos where i grabbed the note pad and wrote it all down thank you im sure this will be helpful .

Informative and ear-opening Thanks, Randy

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Katana, thanks for watching!

Good stuff as always Randy :)

From an obsessive tuning perfectionist (violin, bass and guitar) thank you.

This will definitely help my heavier gauge strings ... And heavy-handedness ... Thanks

preciate the vid man i do alot of tuning by ear by matching the 6th string to the 5 string noting the 6 string on the 5th frfet and you do that all the way to the b string then go to 4th fret to match the g string etc. etc. aint tellin you shit you dont know already i know but by doing that AFTER i tuned to 440 i knew 440 wasnt exactly right i just didnt understand it im glad you straightened that out for me hell i was startin to think my ears had superpowers my papaw used to tell me that they was so big i could hear the sun come up in the mornin! ha ha i like yer videos btother i do im from east tennessee near holston mountain and its nice to get my guitar tech needs from a local and you gotta be not far from here lol

@RandySchartiger

3 жыл бұрын

yep the ears can play tricks on us for sure! lol and you're right I'm not far from you in central wv. I get a lot of guitars from your state. thanks for checking out my videos.

Randy, you do a great job... Love watching and learning . Keep it up. Oh and quit smoking. It's killing you. Oh, and I enjoyed your playing too. Thanks.

@trollssuck7814

6 жыл бұрын

.......said George Burns who smoked like a chimney and lived to be a hundred. Others die of lung cancer at 50. You just never know.

@E-BikingAdventures

5 жыл бұрын

You can smoke 10 ciggarettes a day without it having any negative effects on your health. Lack of excersise and junk food is far worse.

@NN-jd5ul

5 жыл бұрын

@@E-BikingAdventures Smoking is detrimental to the health of the majority of smokers. End of story

@terrynorton3182

4 жыл бұрын

Let’s not get too personal.

You have a center of wealth of knowledge.,,, knowing and learning is what we search for/I Bow~

Can't wait to try this. Got to get a better (newer) tuner. My Seiko from 1980 has been a champ, but it's "old school" technology.

Totally blown away! Sir you are pure genius. I am going to see if this applies to 432 as well using the same cent intervals. Perhaps you have experimented with this as well? I am posting tbis comment without checking because I just had to thank you for this brilliant advice.

Really like that piece you did at the end of your video. I'm sure I'll watch it a hundred times trying it finger it, newbie to your channel I've learn About intonation from your videos witch made PS sounding guitar sound pretty Good!

@RandySchartiger

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Dean! I made it up one time when I was just sitting around practicing. thanks for checking out my videos! :)

Awesome job. You are an amazing musician.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Rosa String Works That means a lot coming from you Jerry, very much appreciated!

Thank you Randy. Trying that tonight.

Hi Mr. Randy, that's a nice version of Simple Man. Thanks for the tutorial, will go back and try this again on my guitars. Have a great Sunday! Hooold Ooon!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Suzanna Crawford My old hands were not wanting to co-operate so I had to quickly move onto something else lol Thanks you Suzanna for commenting and watching, try this tuning and let us know what you think! Hold on! =D

Glad I subscribed to your channel, like the fixes you give that I didn't know

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+George neilson Thank you George for subscribing! Much more to come! :)

Sounds good Randy .... good content.....

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+dan beck Thank ya Dan!

This is so excellent! Thank you!

@sikari72kukur

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have flat tuning ratios you like to use on banjo? I tried it w the 1 thru 5 on open G & it sounds nice. Or are banjo heads & floating bridges different I wonder...

Thanks Randy ... this time yah learned me even more than you learned me the first time.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Spreadswings A lot of folks wanted a demo of how to tune to this tuning and turns out it was a good idea I should have thought of in the first lace lol Thanks Spreadswings for stopping in, I'm glad this helped. :)

Randy thanks works real good.

Quick tip for a more practical approach: Tune every string exactly on an E! -- ((first) E 0th fret / B 5th fret / G 9th / D 2nd (or 14th), A 7th, (last) E 12th fret). Kind of similar to your approach (-3/-6/-4/-8/-10/-12), but here the cent variations come from the notes you fret. Can't say for sure where I got this from (Paul Davids?), but so far it worked great for most guitars and even (somewhat) evens out intonation issues (e.g. when 12th fret is sharp compared to open string due to wrong neck tension / bridge calibration)

@davidsheriff9274

2 жыл бұрын

So by doing that, you get the guitar closer to the sweet spot? Doesn't the tuner pick up the pitch of the string better when you tune with open strings? The intonation would have to be perfect for this to work.

Thanks Randy! I will give that a try.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Frank Morrow It's tedious and time consuming, but pays off on almost every guitar.

I'm really excited to see this. I'm interested in getting one of those "pro tuners". Right now I use a Peterson clip on tuner. I only use it as a safety net. I play jazz in many keys, so I'm interested in the pitch of every note, up the neck. I only tune the d string open- no other open strings. This is very exciting stuff- Thanks.

Thank again,will give this new tune a try

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+George neilson Thanks George for your comment, let us know if this tuning works for you.

Nice job Randy.... !!

Thanks so much. Wow used Da Tuner and what a great sound!

@frankcastle4059

5 жыл бұрын

Lynrdskymrd

Once again I learn domineering from your channel. Thanks again

Well explained Randy, when you spoke of cents in the last vid I thought the term was made up, didn't realise it's the actual term. I like that tune at the end would love to hear it in its entirety, cheers me old mate. 😎

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Simon Bradbury I guess a lot of folks had never heard of cents when it comes to tuning, it's so tiny it doesn't get talked about much, 1 cent = 1/100 of a half step 1/2 step, or 1 fret, you could make a string go a few cents sharp just by squeezing the chords too hard, which is why this tuning is used so much. Thanks for watching and commenting Simon, I'll put in my notes to make a video of that entire tune, I wrote it several years ago and there's quite a bit more to it. Cheers brother!

@MikePattersonlittledog

7 жыл бұрын

sorry randy but a whole step equals 100 cents, not a half... time for a little correction there... :)

sounds pretty good. i'll try that. the intro playing was good too.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+BigEdWo Thanks BigEd, I think you'll find your guitars to sound a lot better up the neck especially.

Good video Randy make's perfect cent's,lol!!your playing is getting better,have a great weekend!Hold!!Onn!! say hi to the Q-ball!!

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+blkjckgtrnut Thanks mate! Finally getting my hands back a little bit at a time! :) Pretty happy about that hold on! =D

Interesting this tip is worth Gold!

@RandySchartiger

3 жыл бұрын

thank you Charles! and thanks for checking out my videos!

Hey Randy. Have you ever played a Yamaha 365 F? I played a $20 cheese grater which I bought from money saved working with my mother at a flea market. My parents told me they weren't shelling out hundreds of dollars for a guitar if I was only gonna play it for a week and stick it in the corner! They were also paying for Samurai karate, and Taekwondo plus ice hockey so I was really pushing their last button asking for an acoustic. So I played that cheese grater for over a year when my father relented and my brother in law, who's 17 years older than I am, and who had got me interested in guitar and singing as he was great at both, took me to a famous guitar shop close to downtown Toronto called "The Trading Post" and we went through a bunch of acoustics there, but I couldn't find one that spoke to me. Then my brother in law told me "hey kid, guitars can't talk" boy I felt the fool! In the end he advised me to buy a used acoustic because I could get one in mint condition for at least half the price of a lesser quality new acoustic, and that made great sense to me. So my BIL pick out a Yamaha FG365 F and I loved it! We bought that one. It came with a really solid flight case which I painted the Supertramp Crime Of The Century album cover on it! Stars in deep space and a set of bars with hands wrapped around them. It looked awesome! I always got compliments whenever I had that case out. I got that guitar when I was about 12 or 13 years old. When I was 15 I had my own apartment and a job, and was mashing with a couple of great players from Montreal. I wanted an electric, and so I STUPIDLY traded that sweet Yamaha and case for an electric Ibanez...that salesman saw me coming, I got skinned! Of course I had no idea back then, but as the years went by I realized the goof saw a punk kid with a sweet Yamaha and case and he cheated me! LOL! I filed that under "L.A.L.! Live and Learn! I don't even remember what became of that electric, but one more quick sad ass guitar story. So, I mentioned working with my mom at the flea market. I got a percentage of the sales and I got $25 one time and saved it till the next week where I was going to add it to whatever I made and buy something cool. So I had just finished setting mom's tables up and she taught me to walk around early as venders were unpacking because you can get some great stuff before anyone gets to even look at it. I walked around and headed straight for the military surplus guy who also often had legit WWII items battle worn. I bought a WWI officer's sword, British/Canadian helmet and a defused WWII pineapple grenade for $20 a couple of weeks prior. That sword alone is worth thousands today! So I see something white in his pile of items ready to be set out, and I took a closer look and saw a really cool white electric guitar. He sold it to me for $25! This was before I got the cheese grater so I was around 10 or 11 years old. I had no idea what that guitar was and thought it needed repairs because the bridge wasn't secured. So it sat in a corner of my room. I moved out when I was 15 got a job and my own apartment with my girlfriend who was 19. I had been playing guitar for a couple of years and started learning about them. One day I was reading a magazine and I saw this awesome white Gibson Les Paul Electric!! WHAT!!?? I called my mother to ask her to look at that guitar and tell me what the label on the head stock said, silence...MOm...NOOOOOOOOO!!! But Yeeeeesssss! She sold it!! Years later I was going through old family photo albums and was sickened to see the Gibson name on the head stock. So that guitar was bought in either 1972 or 73. It was used, so I'd say it was a 1960's or early 1970s Gibson Les Paul!! I still wanna barf every time I think about that guitar. Oh and she sold the sword, helmet and grenade also! LOL!! She was heart broke when I quit school and moved out at 15 and I don't blame her one bit for selling that stuff. But even so...sniff...sniff..sniff...sniff..BWAAAHHH HAA HAA HAAAA!! I'm going to buy another Yamaha FG365 F if it takes me ten years to find a mint one I tells yus!! Hey great channel brother, I dig it! Jack ~'()'~ Canada

Man! I can't believe I never heard of this 😅

simply genius, my gitz has never sounds so sweet :)

The Steve Vai warm up!

Another great piece of information i am curious to know can i set my intonation at this or should be intonation be set on the key itself

Great video, Randy, as always! The lick at the beginning - did you play it in your earlier series of qucikcliplicks?

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Cesar Blues Guitar Thanks so very much Cesar! Yep sure did, my hands wasn't working too well at that time when I made that second series but yep that lick is in one of them. I might include it in the next series and another one very much like it. Thanks again brother!

Excellent

WOW RANDY set I set my 12 string up like this and it really does sound colourful and also playing with a harmonica on it makes the harmonica sound bright and with my brass plate under my Bridge I'm having another wow moment great job👌.. do you have any advice for string height playing a 12 string I have move my strings close to the fret so I don't hurt my fingers but I sacrifice a little bit of my height on the bridge so I don't get the full volume in the box.

Cool tuning.. and did spot that tune at end. Lynyrd. S. nice.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+12Radius Yes! I couldn't think of the name of it when I recorded it but remember it now, Simple Man! :)

Hi and thanks for this. Just wondering… what is your recommended tuner (budget if possible) for electric guitars.

Again a great Video..

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+CrawfishParish Thank you brother for checking it out!

Awesome work. This is how I’ve tuned by ear for years but never knew the cent values. Thank you! How close to this is Peterson’s “Sweetened” Tuning?

@geoffallard7718

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it exactly matches the one James Taylor shows in his embedded video on the Peterson site.

Nuts, I had the description typed in but my kindle decided to crap out on me and go back to your video. Anyway I called Sue at Peterson and she said to use the James Taylor sweetener for the acoustic guitar..Ain't that nice you can vary it in your guitar case too.

I found it is also easy to try to tune at 5th fret for all strings getting the reasonable intonation like it.

Is this a function of the string or the note? In other words, if I were tuning for DADGAD or OPEN G etc, would I follow the rules accordingly, or is there a different guideline for other tunings?

@trollssuck7814

6 жыл бұрын

If you fret or don't fret a note, all strings must be tuned "out of tune". Look at a piano, it is so amazingly flat on the low strings and very sharp on the high strings and no frets. The TUNING of a piano changes LARGELY depending on how hard you play each string. The same is true for any instrument.

My grandfather was a organist and choir master, I inherited two of his tuning forks,a C and A When playing in a band in the 60,s we used the C to tune our instruments.Much to my shock when electronic tuners came out I found the C fork was B it had gone flat with all the hitting

@SuperFruitbat1

6 жыл бұрын

No, it's unlikely to have gone flat. If your grandfather played before ww2 than concert pitch hadn't been standardized. A 'C' note would have been a half step down (100cents lower.) Everything was a semitone lower in pitch.

@earthianfriendly5708

5 жыл бұрын

Need the golden ear, or ears

@josemariatrueba4568

Жыл бұрын

My 50 year old fork tunes exactly 440 Hz. Zero cents off, at room temperature.

BTW; that'a great tuning app. Thanks for that.

Nice show. A very smooth, relaxing voice for us Brits! I was wondering.... Is this "cent flat" tuning used by mainly Acoustic Country and Acoustic Delta Blues (for example) artists rather than say.... Rock and electric blues artists? I suppose so (the key is the tuning and intonation)...... but I haven't heard of electric rock guitarists using this tuning...

Randy those cents make sense merci beaucoup ton show est formidable youre my big brother in my guitar life story

love the augmented riff in the opening, oh yes you can use it in a song, ever listen to buckethead? lol. I like that tuner app, looks much better than the one i'm currently using ☮

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Harry Timmons lol yep Buckethead probably already uses it in a song lol This is one of my favorite tuning apps, my other favorite is Da Tuner Lite but I use this one most. Thanks for stopping in brother cheers! :)

Please post the theory behind this type of tuning compensation...or a link to such information...I really would like to know how those cent numbers were derived...

Hi randy, I'm writing to you from Ireland, you have been a very good help to me in the past, whit your information about the guitar, I want to ask you a question, I have a vintage suzuk guitar, and I was interested in fitting a string butler on it, but I would have to fit it with screws, to the headstok because it's a vintage model,, I did here you say in your video, when you were fitting one, that you would not recommend, to fit a string butler, to the headstok, if it had to be fitted with screws,, could you please explain why, for I would be very interested, in your reasoning, yours respectfully my best regards Brian please keep up the great work, God bless you and yours

@RandySchartiger

7 жыл бұрын

I remember saying that, the String Butler works well whether it's screwed onto the head stock or mounted normally to the pegs, the only reason I'm not for screwing them on is because drilling holes into your guitar could lower the overall value of the instrument. thanks for your support here on KZread!

@brianroberts7073

7 жыл бұрын

Randy Schartiger thank you randy, for your reply, I do appreciate it, and if that is the only reason for not using it, I'm quite contented to put one on, thanks again for your reply, always look forward to your videos, best wishes now and always, Brian :)

It's going to depend on your guitar and your strings. Ideally a guitar should be able to stay in tune up the neck if you're using the string widths that they had in mind when positioning the frets. If you have to tune down, your guitar may have been designed for thicker strings. Of course, there's no way to stay in tune up the neck when using a capo, because you're depressing the string in two different places, which will make it a lot sharper. So in that case I fret the most important notes in the song, and I tune those specifically for the song.

Good Video Randy !!! Greetings nadin

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+Nadin Meypo Thank you Nadin! :)

YOU SON OF A GUN!!! Now I'm going to have to tune 1/2 my guitars this way and 1/2 the other and go back and forth for an hour or 12 comparing the two. LOL! Great explanation of what you're doing.

@SkyscraperGuitars

8 жыл бұрын

+SkyScraper Guitars Oh and thanks for playing us out. I always enjoy that.

@RandySchartiger

8 жыл бұрын

+SkyScraper Guitars lol it's enough to drive one crazy! :D Would love to know what you think once you've checked it out, it works on almost every guitar I've did it on, occasionally I run onto a guitar that doesn't like it but usually it's one that doesn't intonate well at all. Thanks for your comments and for watching mate! :)

@trollssuck7814

6 жыл бұрын

There are PLENTY videos doing side by side comparisons on KZread.