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| Hi Chaps 
Nice to meet you all. Ive never played guitar before, but decided I was going to learn. If I dont do it now I never will - so I went out and bought myself a Yamaha APX700.
Its a nice guitar, looks good and doesnt sound too bad. I got an electro acoustic cos I like the idea of plugging it into a pc at some point in the future to play around.
Anyway, im learning. Been doing finger exercise & started learning the chords. Im practising moving between chords now (its quite hard).
Anyway, im not sure if I have a problem or not.
The in built tuner of the guitar seems to work fine. Lately however, for the 1st, 2nd & 3rd strings its been hit and miss. Sometimes I have to make the guitar sound louder than normal for the tuner to register. Sometimes I tune it and when the tuner turns off I turn it back on again to double check and it seems like its already out of tune...? Sometimes its tuned and I play a D chord and it doesnt quite sound right (could just be me).
Is this normal for a guitar?
Any tips for using the in built tuner?
TIA!
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iMuso Guitar Guy
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| | Firstly click here for some general tips on tuning. Now your specific problem could be down to the battery getting low. Swap in a fresh battery and let us know if the problem goes away! If not we'll think of something else!  BTW I'm moving this to the Guitar Surgery forum.
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| woohoo something to try
Ill buy a new battery at lunchtime and try again tonight. Thanks for the suggestion (should have been obvious I guess).
Will let you know what happens!  |
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| Sorry for the delay.
The new battery seems to have helped, its letting me tune it correctly at least! I still need to pluck the bottom string harder than I had to before though (maybe that was just me?).
Anyway seems to be okish.
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iMuso Guitar Guy
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| Don't forget that the tuning of a note changes during the "decay" (which I guess is why it's called decay). So pluck the string continuously (at about the same rate as your heartbeat) to be sure you're tuning the "attack" portion of the note.
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