You can gamify tuning by ear by having students get into partners and detune each other's guitars. Have them sing the song against the Drone while playing the strings of a guitar that is in tune so that they can reinforce this connection between the pitches they are singing and the open strings. Turn the E drone on playing and sing the pitches of the open strings from high to low using the words “We Tune GuiTars By Ear.” They can make up their own words to the tuning song, but the end goal is for them to be able to auralize the intervals from the strings high to low. I like to teach my students a song to memorize the intervals between the open strings. If students are re-articulating the string while tuning, it can cause the string to sound sharp which will result in inaccurate tuning. I find it’s best to play the string first and then make tuning adjustments. Some students have a tendency to continually re-attack the string while tuning. This will ensure that string windings in the tuning machine don't slacken up and allow the guitar to go out of tune during playing. When students tune a string that is too high, instruct them to go slightly below the pitch and tune it up. When you are watching the students detune and re-tune their instruments, be sure to call out students who are doing a good job of being careful with their adjustments to positively reinforce the fact that large movements can result in string breakage. Repeat the steps for the low E string for the a d g b and high e strings. Take 5 minutes at the beginning of each class to work on tuning by ear. There will be some students that are better at this than others at this, but this gives them the ability to understand how much movement is necessary to make a pitch adjustment. turn the Drone back off and check each student's pitch by having them play it out loud. turn the Drone back on and instruct students to tune up to the E string by going counterclockwise to make the pitch higher. turn the Drone off and have each student play their flat E string. have them play the low E string and instruct them to turn the tuning peg clockwise one quarter of a turn to lower the pitch. have students hum along with the Drone so they hear when what it feels like when they are in tune. play an E drone on the classroom speakers. Have them find the tuning peg that is connected to the low E string. ![]() make sure all of the guitars are tuned before the class starts. Try this activity to develop tuning awareness with your students. students need to know the parts of the guitar and the open string names first and then they can learn how to tune. I think that tuning awareness should start very early on in the learning of guitar.
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