Best Online Tuners and Tuning Apps for Guitars

"I hold in my hand one of the world’s best online tuners. It’s fast, accurate, and easy to use," the old man said as he slowly lifted his iPhone 6s to the sky…

Okay, so maybe the iPhone is not one of the world’s best online tuners, but it’s a pretty good one. The same tiny little speaker you use to call your bestie and tell them that you’re at the mall can be used to tune those guitar strings up when you’re ready to rock some faces off!

All of the tuners mentioned below work a lot better with an acoustic guitar or amplified electric guitar, especially when there’s minimal background noise.

However, you can plug your electric (or acoustic/electric) guitar directly into your phone with an inexpensive adapter like this one from Peterson:

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Learn to Play Guitar Online: Why Should You?

Learning a new instrument can be tough when you’re just starting out. There are all kinds of questions that you need answers to and you don’t always know where to go to find them. Especially, why you should learn to play guitar online?

“What kind of guitar should I buy?”

“What kind of music do I want to play?”

If you’ve decided that you want to learn how to play guitar, you need to figure out what kind of lessons you’re going to take.

Yeah, you’re going to want lessons. It may sound more rock’n’roll to teach yourself how to play, but most people can’t handle that all on their own. Even if you have a natural inclination to music, guitar lessons can only help.

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Practice Guitar: How To, Better Ways, Specific Tips & New Ideas

Practice Guitar is the piece of advice anyone will give you on how to learn to play guitar better.

There’s even an old joke that goes like this:

Question: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Answer: Practice, practice, practice

If this is such an obvious method to get better at playing guitar, or any other instrument, why do we often dread practicing. The good news is that, if you do feel like you’re wasting your time practicing guitar, we’ve compiled a few helpful ways to give your practice sessions a boost.

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Where to Buy Guitar Parts: A Review of the Best Websites & Stores

One day you may find yourself in need of some guitar parts… You dropped it didn’t you? You know you should have gotten some strap locks. Now you need strap locks, and a new neck.

A google search for "guitar parts" will yield approximately 40,900,000 results (in 0.46) seconds. We’ve narrowed the scope to four great choices for you. You’re beloved Flying V metal machine will be as good as new in no time.

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Affordable Guitar Kits: Where to Get the Best Price, Quality & Setups

If you’re looking to build your own guitar, there are plenty of great options. The least expensive option is the all-in-one guitar kits. These kits come with everything you need to build the entire guitar… just add solder, choose a finish, add some good old fashioned sweat equity and BAM! You've got a new guitar for roughly 1/10 the price that a similar guitar would cost from a major manufacturer.

How well do they stack up? Well, there can be a lot of variables that determine the outcome of how your guitar will sound, play and look.

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