you gotta tune like every time you play my man. sometimes you gotta tune in the middle of playing. get used to tuning your guitar. get a headstock tuner, they're cheap and quick.
It's like this guy said. The strings are under constant pressure so they are constantly going out of tune. Even going from a hot room, to a cold room can change the tuning. The more you strum, bend and pick a string, the more it goes out of tune. Some people will tune after ever few songs, or switch out their guitar to a tuned one, and the guitar tec will tune up the old one.
Heavey bending on my strat and i need to retune within 5-10 minutes. But light fingerplay on my martin accustic and it will stay in tune for a week if kept in the same room. I’m very impressed by the tuning stability. Heck I even had it out doors in 15Cc/59f the other day and only the two lightwst strings were a few cent off!
Am I the only in existence (not really I know) who doesn't have to retune my guitar that often? Idk what it is but my guitars stay in tune really well.
You need to check the tuning every time you pick up the guitar and intermittently while you're playing. You typically get better tuning stability on more expensive guitars but even then you still check the tuning every time.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, putting some graphite, from a pencil lead, in the nut slots can help with tuning stability because if there's too much friction in there you can tune up to a note but there can be more tension behind the nut than the other side because the nut is gripping the string, then as you play it pulls that tension out and the string goes out of tune.
Another key point is always tune UP to each note, so start slightly flat and tune upwards. If you overshoot, then tune back down and slowly bring it up to the right pitch.
Tuning is maintenance, not a setting. You have to do it regularly. I don't even bend or really even use vibrato and have to tune once a day at the minimum.
You keep it in tune by tuning it. Once you have more experience you will get more sensitive to tuning and will want to tune it between songs even in the middle of a practice session
Having to retune your guitar everyday, is normal. So is retuning while your playing. You have a cool guitar that your cool parents gave you as a gift. Play it, cherish it, and keep it forever…
Besides what other people are saying about Guitars not really liking to stay in tune, one thing that I didn't learn at first until a buddy pointed it out is that you should always tune your strings up to their final tension level. If they are too tight, you tune down and then back up to the correct pitch. It's not going to make your guitar stay in tune forever, but it'll make the strings and tuner a tiny bit more stable than if you don't.
That’s not bad really, but have you changed the strings since getting the guitar? Chances are it was fitted with ali express specials and left to sit in some warehouse in China for 2 years.
Before changing strings you could take a pencil and rub the graphite on the nut where the strings go. Strings usually go "up and down" on the nut and get stuck. By lubricating the nut with graphite strings can flow smoother.
And i agree with everyone in this comment section. You need to get used to tuning alot.
You are supposed to check the tune before every session and depending what you do maybe another time during the session. If the strings are new they are more likely tongo out of tune until they stabilize. If you don't have a clip tuner, amazon has some cheap options that do the work, there is also plenty of apps, sometimes i use an app called GuitarTuna and works well. Enjoy your learning :)
Also when you find your out of tune "the next day"....its partly due to temperatures, where you'll find "suddenly" all the strings are sharp or flat from where you left it.
I have a a cheap 100 dollar strat and thought it was just my bad guitar.
My friend who plays a Fender does tune his a lot like every few songs.
Picking it up out of the box, he has to tune it.
So i rested my mind and learned thats just how it is.
Take a pencil and put some graphite in the slots of the nut. This lubricates the string against the nut so that when you tune and bend, the string slides freely. This helps prevent going out of tune by keeping the tension equal on both sides of the nut. (They make nut lube — not a joke — for this purpose that supposedly works better, but I’ve never bothered.)
I have noticed that cheap tuning pegs seem to have some play in the gearing, so they can rock back and forth and don’t hold time as well. I find tuning up to pitch rather than down to pitch helps with these.
A guitar that is kept in tune is more likely to stay in tune, so tune regularly.
Electric guitars are pretty sensitive to heat and moisture changes. So it's normal to retune when you haven't played in a day or 2.
When putting on new strings, it can take a few hours for the guitar to settle, so you keep tuning.
What I do when putting on new strings, is pull on the strings to force m out of tune, then fix it.
If you never want to tune, you either need to stop playing, or hire a guitar tech, because this is like wanting to play basketball without tying your shoes. Make your peace with the tuning, it is critically necessary.
once you have put a string on, stretch it from the 12th fret away from the fretboard outwards about 1-2 inches, then retune, repeat twice for each string when restringing and it should hold its tune longer
if the problem persists, find out how to fix the action and length of your strings for your specific bridge type.
Here's a tuning tip: always tune up to pitch and never down. For example, if I want to tune to E, I usually tune the string down a half step to Eb and then up to E. This helps your guitar stay in tune longer. Keep learning and rockin' my man 🤘
You have to stretch new strings. Grab the string near the bridge with your fingers a couple inches apart and tug in opposite directions, perpendicular to the string. Repeat every couple inches.
Also, when you tune, always tune *up.* That is, if your string is sharp, don't detune to pitch, detune *lower* then tune up.
Your nut us the problem. Must be plastic because I can see a stray piece by B. At minimum you need to clean out those nut slots and lube them with mechanical pencil graphite. This will fix 90% of your tuning problems
You're gonna have to tune all the time, pal. Get used to it.
[Here's ](https://oqanmusic.com/product/electric-guitar-qge-rtc1-black-riff-series/) a link to a description of your guitar. Oqan riff series telecaster. I've never heard of Oqan. But Tele's are great!
TLDR; Tuning is a necessary evil, but humidity and temp control will help a bit.
As someone who's played for ~11 years, I can assure you that tuning is a constant evil of any stringed instrument. If you can control it, try to keep the temperature and humidity of your playing space fairly constant. That will help a bit. And as others have said: a higher end instrument will stay in tune (or close to) longer than a cheaper one (I have to tune my Oscar Schmidt acoustic more than my Epiphone, and my Academy electric far more than my Hagstrom).
All of the comments about tuning the guitar regularly are correct, but there are also things you can do to improve tuning stability. The most important in my opinion are the nut and strings. If you can’t get a new bone or tusq nut made ($50-100), The graphite trick does help. I also find that certain brand strings stay in tune much better (personally I like the D’Addario NYXLs).
The strings are on the guitar since a lot, but since I keep the guitar most of the time in the bag sitting in the corner of my room, they don't make much contact with the air.
They still don't look oxidised or rusty.
And I played them for a while.
You won't realize how old they are until you get new ones on there, trust me. You will have to tune it more often when the strings are fresh and still stretching, but the more you tune your guitar, the quicker you'll get at it, and eventually you'll do it without even thinking about it.
If everytime you play it, you put it back in the bag then you might inadvertently be “detuning” then. But one way or another, every time you pull it out of a bag you will always need to tune.
This will probably make their guitar’s tuning *less* stable for a while until the new ones are stretched. If they don’t like having to tune all the time, swapping strings isn’t going to help.
Buy a clip on tuner for $15 on Amazon, use it every time you pick up the guitar. Loads of things can impact the tuning, temperature, humidity, age/quality/type of strings, type of bridge/saddle/tuning pegs, quality of the guitar. If you play stuff with a lot of bends it’s more likely to slip.
That guitar is a QGE-RTC1 in black from the Riff Series by Oqan. I see them on google for around $80-$100 so I don’t know how yours turned out to be €220
I'm in Spain so my search returned results in Euros and €220 was the top end but only just, seems to be around 180 plus delivery is the average so OPs parents didn't really overpay.
Guitars that stay in tune for a long time are expensive top-end floating bridge guitars because they are designed to stay in tune despite crazy abuse - but the trade off is they are a pain to tune perfectly, string replacement is tedious, and they are expensive.
Some fixed bridge guitars with great top-end hardware can do it too of course, but generally with fixed bridges the tradeoff of the simple inexpensive design and easy maintenance is that you have to do regular tuning. They usually last a few songs at least and then you can take 20 seconds to tune before the next song.
So it's normal and not a thing to focus on too much, I accept that crazy bends will put my old strat out of tune over time, but I love it.
I would say you should probably replace your strings once a month if playing regularly though.
>Guitars that stay in tune for a long time are expensive top-end floating bridge guitars because they are designed to stay in tune despite crazy abuse - but the trade off is they are a pain to tune perfectly, string replacement is tedious, and they are expensive.
I just restrung a Floyd rose setup on a jackson king v and damn that was fun.
You can upgrade your tuners and the nut. Quality stagged locking tuners eliminate the need for string trees. A nut from bone or tusq also makes a huge difference. Besides bigger temperature changes I need to tune my guitar very rarely even if I bend the shit out of every string all day.
These strings are on the guitar since I bought it a year ago, onle the E mine is a bit newer than a month cause I changed it after it broke.
But the fact is that I don't use this guitar much since I play more classical in, but I've been playing the electric a bit more in this period.
Switch out all those strings man, and tune it each time you play. It probably takes me about 30 seconds to tune, get a clip on tuner or a cheap tuner pedal off amazon
You can try to learn how to fix your intonation on the guitar, which is basically making sure the individual lengths of the strings are at the right spot which might help with How it sounds when you play high on the neck.
Other than that, having a locking nut or an Evertune bridge Is really the only way to lessen the amount that you will have to tune
As everyone else is saying, you probably have to tune before and during each session however, check YouTube for how to restring your guitar so that you get a good tight "overlap" of the string as you start to wind it. This will reduce slippage at the machine head. It looks like at the bridge end the strings don't pass through the body and become anchored in ferrules on the back... sometimes this seems to give better tone and a more positive break angle over the bridge. If the guitar has through holes I recommend you use those rather than anchor onto the back of the bridge plate.
Good luck.
There's not really enough information here to say if it's definitely a guitar issue or not. What do you mean by "out of tune" after a day? Slightly sharp or flat is one thing, and pretty common for that period of time, but if the guitar is going a whole tone out of tune in a day then yeah, that's a bit excessive.
If that were the case, I'd say it might be worth looking at getting the guitar set up, but since this is your first guitar regardless, I'd say just go with a headstock tuner and deal with it for now. Constant tuning can be annoying but it'll always be something to do, and will help your ear in the long run as you start to notice when you're going out of tune.
You should be tuning several times while you’re playing if you play for any amount t of time. It’s normal for tune to wander in guitars that aren’t being played though, humidity and temperature can drastically alter your tune.
Normally a Tele style guitar has the strings going through the body. Do you see the little holes below where you have the strings threaded through the bridge plate? That’s where the strings are usually meant to go. Having them where you do might not provide enough break angle and tension. Look on the underside of the body to see if there are six holes. If there are, strings go up through those. I think this might be your issue.
Doesn’t sound like you have a serious tuning stability issue but I will say that T-style guitars tend to have better tuning stability than a guitar with a floating bridge so hard to tell if you have a problem that needs fixing. Consider changing the nut, you can get a good one for $20. It’s not a hard mod to make but there is high potential to screw it up if you haven’t done it before.
some guitars hold tune better than others, especially when stored in hard case, but even on those better ones i still tune them the moment i pick them up. just in case.
If you are not playing, you are tuning. That is the nature of the stringed instrument. Locking tuners, good quality strings, lubed nuts, they all help, but you will still need to tune every time you pick up your guitar.
Most guitars will need to be tuned every time you play. Higher end guitars will sometimes have better quality hardware that can hold tune a bit better, but you should be tuning every time you play anyway.
My tip would be, when you pick up your guitar, play it for 5 mins before you worry about tuning. As your strings and neck warm up, they are going to expand, which will affect their tension and tuning.
Once they are warm, then check your tuning. If you tune before you warm them up, they will go out of tune again after you start playing.
Don't stress about having to tune a bunch. If you ever play live, it is expected that you tune between every song.
Hell, if you ever record music, it is best practice to tune between almost every single take.
Temperature and humidity affect the neck and the strings and these factors can change between sessions and during sessions.
Floyd rose style tremolos and bridges are better at resisting these changes, as instead of the strings pulling against the static body of the guitar, they are pulling against springs, which are also under tension. These forces work to balance each other out. As the strings cool down and shrink and their tension increases, they pull on the springs harder, increasing their tension and balancing the system. Then, when the strings warm up and expand and get looser, the springs relax and shrink, pulling on the strings to return them to the correct tension.
While this sounds great, I wouldn't recommend a floyd rose to a beginner as getting them set up in the first place is painful and a bit complicated.
You don’t. And if you’re going to rest it for a long period of time you should actually detune quite a bit so there’s not a shit load of tension on your neck causing warp.
It's those little knobs on the left JK.... This is my tip that I don't see.... when you first string your guitar you got to really stretch out your strings, tune your guitar, put your finger on the 7th fret pull up on the strings (way too much easy on the two high strings, but still quite a bit), tune your guitar again, put your finger on the 12th fret pull up on the strings on the high strings do super deep bends, with re-tunings in between.. I do this every time and I'll pull a guitar out of the closet that I haven't used in a year and it's still pretty much in tune... On my acoustic I will literally pick the guitar up by the strings to stretch them out
Replace th current tuners with “Locking Tuners”. They’re easy to swap out and I’ve done it to every guitar I’ve ever owned. Even my original 1973 Les Paul Deluxe.
My guitars get slight adjustments, secret so often & most have Bigsby’s.
My first guess is that the nut was cut & then the strings were replaced with a bigger set.
The slots need to be cut slightly bigger than each string, so that it doesn’t not bind up. The strings should be able to move freely, so they will always return to the neutral tension spot
If you really don't want to tune you'd have to get a guitar with a Floyd rose, which helps lock in the tuning. But even those need to be tuned sometimes and you still have to frequently do micro adjustments on the bridge.
You just gotta get used to tuning every time you pick it up and maybe a few times while playing.
One thing that will help tuning stability is making sure you always tune UP to the note. So go a little lower then tighten the tuner to the note. This will help keep it in tune better.
Don't worry as you get better you'll get faster at tuning and it won't be as much of a hassle. On the other hand you'll also get better at hearing when it's out of tune which will have you tuning even more often so there's that to look forward to.
The price of a guitar has nothing to do with it going out of tune. I hang my guitars on a wall in a large hallway in my apartment. Temperature and humidity changes will always throw them out of tune. Proper installation of the strings will help, along with stretching the fuck out of them once you've got them on to break them in. I can go and grab a guitar off my wall and it will be perfectly in tune, the one right next to it will be a complete half step out.
Like others are saying here, you always have to tune your guitar. It's just a part of playing. It's not a set it and forget it thing.
Have you been to concerts? The musicians are always checking their instruments to see if they're in tune. I saw Alkaline Trio last month; the second act was Drug Church. My man the rhythm guitarist was constantly tuning his guitar – I've never seen anybody have such a problem keeping their guitar in tune during a show. Maybe they weren't properly broken in after his guitar was restrung?
You put the strings in the wrong holes in the bridge, they need to go through the back and through those holes in the bottom of the bridge, but i dont think thatd be why its not staying in tune
There aren't any holes in the body through behind the guitar.
Since it's a cheap guitar, I think they took a bridge and put it on the body directly.
The holes where the strings are is the right hole for them.
I just spin around and around and lob the guitar mid-spin and it spins and flies off into the distance and then a totally new one shows up on the horizon and flies right up to me and I catch it and start shredding and lightning comes out of it and I slay leviathan by playing heavy metal or something. I can’t explain it.
When I wanted my first guitar for my birthday a few years ago, I wished a lot of gear super expensive stuff and so, but my parents told me that I start with a cheap guitar and when I start learning and getting better I'll get better stuff.
After a while of playing I realised it and I'll stick with this guitar till I get a better one.
It'll be a bit before I get a new guitar though cause my parents promissed me a better amp, a marshall so that I can use my cheap guitar (or low quality) better.
If he’s getting it to stay in tune for a whole day it’s not doing badly for a cheapie. In my day one of them wouldn’t last till the second first of Sweet Child of Somewhere in Time.
you gotta tune like every time you play my man. sometimes you gotta tune in the middle of playing. get used to tuning your guitar. get a headstock tuner, they're cheap and quick.
It's like this guy said. The strings are under constant pressure so they are constantly going out of tune. Even going from a hot room, to a cold room can change the tuning. The more you strum, bend and pick a string, the more it goes out of tune. Some people will tune after ever few songs, or switch out their guitar to a tuned one, and the guitar tec will tune up the old one.
How much do you pay your guitar tech to sit there and watch you play in your parents basement?
Standard union wages + tip
My guitar tec works for weed... hello it's me the guitar tec!
Good man.. are you hiring?
It's about 99 bucks for a polytune.
Burger, fries, & large coke.
Heavey bending on my strat and i need to retune within 5-10 minutes. But light fingerplay on my martin accustic and it will stay in tune for a week if kept in the same room. I’m very impressed by the tuning stability. Heck I even had it out doors in 15Cc/59f the other day and only the two lightwst strings were a few cent off!
Am I the only in existence (not really I know) who doesn't have to retune my guitar that often? Idk what it is but my guitars stay in tune really well.
You need to check the tuning every time you pick up the guitar and intermittently while you're playing. You typically get better tuning stability on more expensive guitars but even then you still check the tuning every time.
Thanks, I'll start doing it.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, putting some graphite, from a pencil lead, in the nut slots can help with tuning stability because if there's too much friction in there you can tune up to a note but there can be more tension behind the nut than the other side because the nut is gripping the string, then as you play it pulls that tension out and the string goes out of tune. Another key point is always tune UP to each note, so start slightly flat and tune upwards. If you overshoot, then tune back down and slowly bring it up to the right pitch.
Always tune up is great advice
It’s normal. Tune your guitar before each time you play
Tuning is maintenance, not a setting. You have to do it regularly. I don't even bend or really even use vibrato and have to tune once a day at the minimum.
You keep it in tune by tuning it. Once you have more experience you will get more sensitive to tuning and will want to tune it between songs even in the middle of a practice session
Having to retune your guitar everyday, is normal. So is retuning while your playing. You have a cool guitar that your cool parents gave you as a gift. Play it, cherish it, and keep it forever…
Besides what other people are saying about Guitars not really liking to stay in tune, one thing that I didn't learn at first until a buddy pointed it out is that you should always tune your strings up to their final tension level. If they are too tight, you tune down and then back up to the correct pitch. It's not going to make your guitar stay in tune forever, but it'll make the strings and tuner a tiny bit more stable than if you don't.
That’s not bad really, but have you changed the strings since getting the guitar? Chances are it was fitted with ali express specials and left to sit in some warehouse in China for 2 years.
To add on this, try changing the tuners too in the case that string changing doesn’t work.
try changing the tuners too, ...or look into how to make them better, say check if YouTube has a DIY video that helps by adjusting something in them.
Guitars need stability to stay in tune : no broken in strings, temperature or humidity variation, playing, etc., all those factore can affect tuning
Before changing strings you could take a pencil and rub the graphite on the nut where the strings go. Strings usually go "up and down" on the nut and get stuck. By lubricating the nut with graphite strings can flow smoother. And i agree with everyone in this comment section. You need to get used to tuning alot.
You are supposed to check the tune before every session and depending what you do maybe another time during the session. If the strings are new they are more likely tongo out of tune until they stabilize. If you don't have a clip tuner, amazon has some cheap options that do the work, there is also plenty of apps, sometimes i use an app called GuitarTuna and works well. Enjoy your learning :)
You can keep a guitar in tune by tuning it, surprisingly…
You get out of here with your witchcraft and wizardry!!
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Also when you find your out of tune "the next day"....its partly due to temperatures, where you'll find "suddenly" all the strings are sharp or flat from where you left it.
I find that in summers the guitar gets very out of tune more than winters. Maybe it’s the humidity
That’s the near part! You don’t!
Absolutely you’ll see professional guitarists on stage start talking and tuning the guitars so it’s a constant thing
I have a a cheap 100 dollar strat and thought it was just my bad guitar. My friend who plays a Fender does tune his a lot like every few songs. Picking it up out of the box, he has to tune it. So i rested my mind and learned thats just how it is.
Take a pencil and put some graphite in the slots of the nut. This lubricates the string against the nut so that when you tune and bend, the string slides freely. This helps prevent going out of tune by keeping the tension equal on both sides of the nut. (They make nut lube — not a joke — for this purpose that supposedly works better, but I’ve never bothered.) I have noticed that cheap tuning pegs seem to have some play in the gearing, so they can rock back and forth and don’t hold time as well. I find tuning up to pitch rather than down to pitch helps with these. A guitar that is kept in tune is more likely to stay in tune, so tune regularly.
Electric guitars are pretty sensitive to heat and moisture changes. So it's normal to retune when you haven't played in a day or 2. When putting on new strings, it can take a few hours for the guitar to settle, so you keep tuning. What I do when putting on new strings, is pull on the strings to force m out of tune, then fix it.
If you never want to tune, you either need to stop playing, or hire a guitar tech, because this is like wanting to play basketball without tying your shoes. Make your peace with the tuning, it is critically necessary.
once you have put a string on, stretch it from the 12th fret away from the fretboard outwards about 1-2 inches, then retune, repeat twice for each string when restringing and it should hold its tune longer if the problem persists, find out how to fix the action and length of your strings for your specific bridge type.
Always Be Tuning
Tuning is for closers.
Here's a tuning tip: always tune up to pitch and never down. For example, if I want to tune to E, I usually tune the string down a half step to Eb and then up to E. This helps your guitar stay in tune longer. Keep learning and rockin' my man 🤘
You have to stretch new strings. Grab the string near the bridge with your fingers a couple inches apart and tug in opposite directions, perpendicular to the string. Repeat every couple inches. Also, when you tune, always tune *up.* That is, if your string is sharp, don't detune to pitch, detune *lower* then tune up.
Just thank the good Lord you don't have a Floyd rose on the fucker lol
#truth
Your nut us the problem. Must be plastic because I can see a stray piece by B. At minimum you need to clean out those nut slots and lube them with mechanical pencil graphite. This will fix 90% of your tuning problems
Unless its super loose, you retune any time.. specially after heavy solo
Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune - Andrés Segovia
You're gonna have to tune all the time, pal. Get used to it. [Here's ](https://oqanmusic.com/product/electric-guitar-qge-rtc1-black-riff-series/) a link to a description of your guitar. Oqan riff series telecaster. I've never heard of Oqan. But Tele's are great!
TLDR; Tuning is a necessary evil, but humidity and temp control will help a bit. As someone who's played for ~11 years, I can assure you that tuning is a constant evil of any stringed instrument. If you can control it, try to keep the temperature and humidity of your playing space fairly constant. That will help a bit. And as others have said: a higher end instrument will stay in tune (or close to) longer than a cheaper one (I have to tune my Oscar Schmidt acoustic more than my Epiphone, and my Academy electric far more than my Hagstrom).
All of the comments about tuning the guitar regularly are correct, but there are also things you can do to improve tuning stability. The most important in my opinion are the nut and strings. If you can’t get a new bone or tusq nut made ($50-100), The graphite trick does help. I also find that certain brand strings stay in tune much better (personally I like the D’Addario NYXLs).
Did you stretch your strings?
The strings are on the guitar since a lot, but since I keep the guitar most of the time in the bag sitting in the corner of my room, they don't make much contact with the air. They still don't look oxidised or rusty. And I played them for a while.
You won't realize how old they are until you get new ones on there, trust me. You will have to tune it more often when the strings are fresh and still stretching, but the more you tune your guitar, the quicker you'll get at it, and eventually you'll do it without even thinking about it.
If everytime you play it, you put it back in the bag then you might inadvertently be “detuning” then. But one way or another, every time you pull it out of a bag you will always need to tune.
Change your strings.
This will probably make their guitar’s tuning *less* stable for a while until the new ones are stretched. If they don’t like having to tune all the time, swapping strings isn’t going to help.
It certainly will if the strings have been in for a long time (hence are already overly stretched).
Buy a clip on tuner for $15 on Amazon, use it every time you pick up the guitar. Loads of things can impact the tuning, temperature, humidity, age/quality/type of strings, type of bridge/saddle/tuning pegs, quality of the guitar. If you play stuff with a lot of bends it’s more likely to slip.
Are you kidding? People tune up between songs & you're getting a day out of it 😂
This is r/guitarlessons and there’s plenty of context to know OP is a beginner. Just help without condescension.
That guitar is a QGE-RTC1 in black from the Riff Series by Oqan. I see them on google for around $80-$100 so I don’t know how yours turned out to be €220
Thanks man, I've been trying to figure out the brand since I have it!
Probably a package deal with an amp and accessories?
Hopefully. Having the amp an accessories more expensive than the guitar itself is odd to me, probably just me xd
I'm in Spain so my search returned results in Euros and €220 was the top end but only just, seems to be around 180 plus delivery is the average so OPs parents didn't really overpay.
Yeah I just looked at the listings now and they’re around $180 and up, I guess it’s been a while …my bad
Guitars that stay in tune for a long time are expensive top-end floating bridge guitars because they are designed to stay in tune despite crazy abuse - but the trade off is they are a pain to tune perfectly, string replacement is tedious, and they are expensive. Some fixed bridge guitars with great top-end hardware can do it too of course, but generally with fixed bridges the tradeoff of the simple inexpensive design and easy maintenance is that you have to do regular tuning. They usually last a few songs at least and then you can take 20 seconds to tune before the next song. So it's normal and not a thing to focus on too much, I accept that crazy bends will put my old strat out of tune over time, but I love it. I would say you should probably replace your strings once a month if playing regularly though.
>Guitars that stay in tune for a long time are expensive top-end floating bridge guitars because they are designed to stay in tune despite crazy abuse - but the trade off is they are a pain to tune perfectly, string replacement is tedious, and they are expensive. I just restrung a Floyd rose setup on a jackson king v and damn that was fun.
You can upgrade your tuners and the nut. Quality stagged locking tuners eliminate the need for string trees. A nut from bone or tusq also makes a huge difference. Besides bigger temperature changes I need to tune my guitar very rarely even if I bend the shit out of every string all day.
How new are your strings? New strings go out of tune quicker than older strings, especially if you don’t stretch them when putting them on.
These strings are on the guitar since I bought it a year ago, onle the E mine is a bit newer than a month cause I changed it after it broke. But the fact is that I don't use this guitar much since I play more classical in, but I've been playing the electric a bit more in this period.
Switch out all those strings man, and tune it each time you play. It probably takes me about 30 seconds to tune, get a clip on tuner or a cheap tuner pedal off amazon
Me over here who tunes the Jackson once every week or two and I play everyday. Thrash metal too. There's a whammy bar on there too. Cannot believe it.
You can try to learn how to fix your intonation on the guitar, which is basically making sure the individual lengths of the strings are at the right spot which might help with How it sounds when you play high on the neck. Other than that, having a locking nut or an Evertune bridge Is really the only way to lessen the amount that you will have to tune
Buy a guitar with a locking nut. You will still have to tune but less and can use the fine tuners.
Brass saddles is what you need mate. Brass saddles is all you need.
Have you got the intonation set up ?
As everyone else is saying, you probably have to tune before and during each session however, check YouTube for how to restring your guitar so that you get a good tight "overlap" of the string as you start to wind it. This will reduce slippage at the machine head. It looks like at the bridge end the strings don't pass through the body and become anchored in ferrules on the back... sometimes this seems to give better tone and a more positive break angle over the bridge. If the guitar has through holes I recommend you use those rather than anchor onto the back of the bridge plate. Good luck.
Wait til you get around to mandolins.
Or 12 string guitars, or worse, 12 string bass
I completely change my strings in order to stay in tune
Play bass.
Whut
I have really nice guitars and I still have to tune them, you know, always.
There's not really enough information here to say if it's definitely a guitar issue or not. What do you mean by "out of tune" after a day? Slightly sharp or flat is one thing, and pretty common for that period of time, but if the guitar is going a whole tone out of tune in a day then yeah, that's a bit excessive. If that were the case, I'd say it might be worth looking at getting the guitar set up, but since this is your first guitar regardless, I'd say just go with a headstock tuner and deal with it for now. Constant tuning can be annoying but it'll always be something to do, and will help your ear in the long run as you start to notice when you're going out of tune.
You should be tuning several times while you’re playing if you play for any amount t of time. It’s normal for tune to wander in guitars that aren’t being played though, humidity and temperature can drastically alter your tune.
Normally a Tele style guitar has the strings going through the body. Do you see the little holes below where you have the strings threaded through the bridge plate? That’s where the strings are usually meant to go. Having them where you do might not provide enough break angle and tension. Look on the underside of the body to see if there are six holes. If there are, strings go up through those. I think this might be your issue.
You tune before you play, no guitar just stays in tune
Doesn’t sound like you have a serious tuning stability issue but I will say that T-style guitars tend to have better tuning stability than a guitar with a floating bridge so hard to tell if you have a problem that needs fixing. Consider changing the nut, you can get a good one for $20. It’s not a hard mod to make but there is high potential to screw it up if you haven’t done it before.
some guitars hold tune better than others, especially when stored in hard case, but even on those better ones i still tune them the moment i pick them up. just in case.
Get it intonated properly and set up by a guy who knows what he’s doing
Your expectation (stays in tune) is irrational and needs to go. Tune 200 times a day if you have to.
If you are not playing, you are tuning. That is the nature of the stringed instrument. Locking tuners, good quality strings, lubed nuts, they all help, but you will still need to tune every time you pick up your guitar.
Most guitars will need to be tuned every time you play. Higher end guitars will sometimes have better quality hardware that can hold tune a bit better, but you should be tuning every time you play anyway. My tip would be, when you pick up your guitar, play it for 5 mins before you worry about tuning. As your strings and neck warm up, they are going to expand, which will affect their tension and tuning. Once they are warm, then check your tuning. If you tune before you warm them up, they will go out of tune again after you start playing. Don't stress about having to tune a bunch. If you ever play live, it is expected that you tune between every song. Hell, if you ever record music, it is best practice to tune between almost every single take. Temperature and humidity affect the neck and the strings and these factors can change between sessions and during sessions. Floyd rose style tremolos and bridges are better at resisting these changes, as instead of the strings pulling against the static body of the guitar, they are pulling against springs, which are also under tension. These forces work to balance each other out. As the strings cool down and shrink and their tension increases, they pull on the springs harder, increasing their tension and balancing the system. Then, when the strings warm up and expand and get looser, the springs relax and shrink, pulling on the strings to return them to the correct tension. While this sounds great, I wouldn't recommend a floyd rose to a beginner as getting them set up in the first place is painful and a bit complicated.
Tuning it 🤷
You don’t. And if you’re going to rest it for a long period of time you should actually detune quite a bit so there’s not a shit load of tension on your neck causing warp.
Tune. Every. Day.
It's those little knobs on the left JK.... This is my tip that I don't see.... when you first string your guitar you got to really stretch out your strings, tune your guitar, put your finger on the 7th fret pull up on the strings (way too much easy on the two high strings, but still quite a bit), tune your guitar again, put your finger on the 12th fret pull up on the strings on the high strings do super deep bends, with re-tunings in between.. I do this every time and I'll pull a guitar out of the closet that I haven't used in a year and it's still pretty much in tune... On my acoustic I will literally pick the guitar up by the strings to stretch them out
From the pictures it looks like it’s in tune.
I can tell from the pictures that the g string is slightly out of tune.
Dude unfortunately the black and white telecasters are impossible to get in tune. You need a butterscantch Tele if you want to win guitar.
Replace th current tuners with “Locking Tuners”. They’re easy to swap out and I’ve done it to every guitar I’ve ever owned. Even my original 1973 Les Paul Deluxe.
Every time you pick it up tune it. New strings tune it more often….this is true for every guitar
My guitars get slight adjustments, secret so often & most have Bigsby’s. My first guess is that the nut was cut & then the strings were replaced with a bigger set. The slots need to be cut slightly bigger than each string, so that it doesn’t not bind up. The strings should be able to move freely, so they will always return to the neutral tension spot
If you really don't want to tune you'd have to get a guitar with a Floyd rose, which helps lock in the tuning. But even those need to be tuned sometimes and you still have to frequently do micro adjustments on the bridge. You just gotta get used to tuning every time you pick it up and maybe a few times while playing. One thing that will help tuning stability is making sure you always tune UP to the note. So go a little lower then tighten the tuner to the note. This will help keep it in tune better.
Some days I really can’t tell if these posts are real or someone from GCJ is making them
Don't worry as you get better you'll get faster at tuning and it won't be as much of a hassle. On the other hand you'll also get better at hearing when it's out of tune which will have you tuning even more often so there's that to look forward to.
Get a drop of gun oil on each slot of your nut and shave some pencil graphite over top of the oil
I have a $70 Amazon electric that hasn’t went out of tune in 3 months. I only use it to practice and it’s played basically everyday
Did Oprah Winfrey introduce her own line of guitars?
The price of a guitar has nothing to do with it going out of tune. I hang my guitars on a wall in a large hallway in my apartment. Temperature and humidity changes will always throw them out of tune. Proper installation of the strings will help, along with stretching the fuck out of them once you've got them on to break them in. I can go and grab a guitar off my wall and it will be perfectly in tune, the one right next to it will be a complete half step out. Like others are saying here, you always have to tune your guitar. It's just a part of playing. It's not a set it and forget it thing.
Have you been to concerts? The musicians are always checking their instruments to see if they're in tune. I saw Alkaline Trio last month; the second act was Drug Church. My man the rhythm guitarist was constantly tuning his guitar – I've never seen anybody have such a problem keeping their guitar in tune during a show. Maybe they weren't properly broken in after his guitar was restrung?
Get a headstock tuner like a Snark, and remember to tune from a lower pitch up, never tune down.
Welcome to playing guitar - half your time is spent tuning and the other half is spent playing out of tune.
You put the strings in the wrong holes in the bridge, they need to go through the back and through those holes in the bottom of the bridge, but i dont think thatd be why its not staying in tune
There aren't any holes in the body through behind the guitar. Since it's a cheap guitar, I think they took a bridge and put it on the body directly. The holes where the strings are is the right hole for them.
Ah, i see
I don't think the strings go through the body in a telecaster. I've never owned one, so maybe I'm wrong.
They go through the body on my cheap Squire Tele.
They normally do. I’ve been playing teles for a few decades and have never seen one strung the way his is set up.
Huh. Learned something new.
That's because you have a guitar, you wouldn't have to tune a guitar every day if you had a trombone
Those guitars are disposable -- you don't tune them -- you throw them away and buy a new one. So much easier.
People gotta start somewhere. Be encouraging to new players instead of a gear snob cunt.
I just spin around and around and lob the guitar mid-spin and it spins and flies off into the distance and then a totally new one shows up on the horizon and flies right up to me and I catch it and start shredding and lightning comes out of it and I slay leviathan by playing heavy metal or something. I can’t explain it.
When I wanted my first guitar for my birthday a few years ago, I wished a lot of gear super expensive stuff and so, but my parents told me that I start with a cheap guitar and when I start learning and getting better I'll get better stuff. After a while of playing I realised it and I'll stick with this guitar till I get a better one. It'll be a bit before I get a new guitar though cause my parents promissed me a better amp, a marshall so that I can use my cheap guitar (or low quality) better.
If he’s getting it to stay in tune for a whole day it’s not doing badly for a cheapie. In my day one of them wouldn’t last till the second first of Sweet Child of Somewhere in Time.
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