wildhearts tuning

[nig1012]

if i were 2 put a capo on the 1st fret would that give me the same tuning (Eb etc) as the wildies use

[nig1012]

sorry didn't explain that very well i meant to say if i put a capo on the 1st fret and then tuned the guitar as normal then when i took the capo off it would be tuned as Eb etc would that be correct

[shockingcandy]

Yes, I suppose it would. Never thought of doing it that way!

[Ean]

Yeah, but the way a capo has to stretch the strings to sound right at the first fret will probably mean you end up with it horribly out of tune when you take it off.

You're probably best off nipping down to your local music emporium and getting yourself a cheap chromatic tuner. You can pick 'em up for just over a tenner these days.

This one should be pretty reliable.

[29xthefun]

Korg tuners do seem to be the most accurate.

[nig1012]

fuuny that cus i bought one at the weekend but the instructions may as well have been in swaheelee or maybe i'm just fick. i tuned the e string to Eb then got confused cus i cudn't find any others flats on the display Do'h

[Ean]

Which one did you buy?

[spoon_of_grimbo]

just tune to standard, and then detune the low E string by ear so that the sixth fret is the same as the open A, then detune the A string so that the sixth fret is the same as the open D, and so on...

i had a fun time trying to tune to open C (CGCGCGE) to play some devin townsend stuff the other day... bit of a fuck-about, but it's an interesting tuning, fun to play in.

[nig1012]

Which one did you buy?

i bought the korg CA-30

[Ean]

According to these instructions on their website, in Meter Mode it detects the note you're tuning to automatically.

So if you pluck a string, it should tell you what the note is without you changing anything on the tuner.

[nig1012]

next question is G# the same as Ab and C# the same as Db and F# the same as Gb

[nig1012]

because the korg tuner has 12 notes programmed i they are
C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B

[Ean]

Yep, exactly the same. For some reason it's a general convention to use Bb and Eb, but sharpen the others - Although it does also depend what key you're playing in as to what they get called.

So you want Eb, G#, C#, F#, Bb, Eb.

[nig1012]

i love wildhearts fans they're all so friendly and helpful, god bless you all