How do we know what note the string is tuned to when we’re turning the machine heads? Easy. We use a tuner to tell us! ???? If you’re wondering how to tune a guitar with what you have at hand there’s 4 methods (we’ll cover each one in turn):

Restringing and Tuning a Guitar: Countless people enjoy playing guitar, but do not know the basics of how to restring or tune their guitar. Even more people are fairly experienced guitar players that do not know to restring or tune their guitars properly.

To make things easier, I decided to put together a tuning diagram for 12-string guitars (shown below). As I mentioned in the last section, the most significant difference is the octave-higher and octave-lower tuning in the E, A, D, and G string pairs.