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How to Tune a Guitar: a Beginner's Guide That Actually Sticks

How to tune a 6-string guitar properly: standard tuning notes, why you must come up to the note, reading cents, stretching new strings, tuning by ear, and what to check when it will not hold.

Published: 7/4/2026Read more →

Music Intervals Explained: the Distance That Makes Melody and Harmony

What an interval really is, why your ear compares frequencies by dividing, which ratios sound stable and why your equal-tempered guitar plays none of them exactly.

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How Chords Are Built: Triads, Sevenths and Why Shapes Repeat

The stacked-thirds recipe for every chord type, plus the part most lessons skip: which notes you can leave out, why the fifth goes first and why an altered fifth never does.

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The Circle of Fifths: the Map Every Musician Ends Up Using

The circle of fifths as a map of key distance: why it closes only in equal temperament, how to read sharps and flats, the six chords of any key at a glance, circle progressions, transposing by rotation, and why guitar lives in E, A, D, G and C.

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Time Signatures and Note Values: How Rhythm Actually Works

What the two numbers in a time signature actually say, why 6/8 is not 3/4, why subdivision is the real skill, and four ways to practise with a metronome that actually work.

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Why a Guitar Goes Out of Tune – and Why It Can Never Be Perfect

The real reasons a guitar drifts: equal temperament makes the major third 14 cents sharp, fretting sharpens notes, strings are inharmonic. Which causes are physics, which are your nut and strings, and what actually helps.

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