pretty noobish tuning question, but..

[Sune]

Well, I want to play some In Flames tracks, and currently I have my guitar in standard tuning, I haven't played long enough to tune by ear, therefore I use a tuner to tune my guitar, but it can only tune in standard, so if I wanted to tune to C,G,D#,A#,F,A# how could I do it?

[pac112]

when using the tuner, hold down the frets on the strings which has the same note as the standard tuning.

for eg. you want to get a C tuning for your low E string, hold down your 5th fret on the 6th string and check with the tuner.

[Sune]

So, if we take the example you said, I should hold down the 5th fret, and then I should just tune it as normally with the 5th fret held down? And it should still say "E" on the tuner like normally?

[pac112]

oh, of course when turning the machine heads dont hold the fret down. only hold down the frets when checking with the tuner . yeah, it should show E on the tuner like your standard tuning

[Sune]

Cool, thanks for your help.

[pac112]

Ur welcome

[Akrin]

for eg. you want to get a C tuning for your low E string, hold down your 5th fret on the 6th string and check with the tuner.

Err, for C, you'd want to hold the 4th fret.

C C# D D# E
0 1 2 3 4

[D-EJ915]

Or if you think about it...

C is 4 flats (2 notes) below E, so if your tuner uses flats...use 4 for that string! ...and D would be 2 flats, etc.

lol...that's how I do it on mine, and if your intonation is slightly off it works better... :shiftyeyes: lol

[Sune]

Now you're friggin confusing me. Isn't C the 8th fret?

[Sune]

I simply don't get how to do it.. Now I need to tune to (high e to low E) D#,A#,F#,C#,G#,C#

But I have no idea how, you've confused me.

[pac112]

Sune, my mistake.. its the 4th fret. lol!! for you to get the low E string tune down to C. for the other tunings its the same concept man.

[Sune]

I still don't get it. Why is it the 4th fret? the 4th fret is a G#??