SGTH5: Simple Guitar Tuner HTML5

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Acoustic

Sustained Distortion (Power Chord — 1-5, with emphasis on the 1-note sound)

How to Use

  1. Please wait a moment until all resources have been loaded.

  2. Hit either button to loop each note. Hit again to stop it and enable another note reference.

    Each note has around 2 seconds of duration until it's replayed from the beginning.

  3. This uses HTML5 <audio> with MP3 format. If your browser doesn't support it, there'll be an error notification to replace SGTH5.

  4. The first six buttons use acoustic sound and the other six are using distortion (5th harmony).

About Guitar

  1. Standard guitar has 6 strings, with this tuning convention:

    E - A - D - g - b - e

    It starts from the top, the lowest pitch, the bass.

  2. The first string is the highest-pitch string. On actual guitar, it's the bottom string. The lowest pitch is the sixth string, the top string.

  3. When we play standard guitar, the guitar neck is placed on the left, and the body of the guitar is on the right. So your right hand strums/plucks/picks the strings, and the left hand grips the chord or presses the note.

    For left-handed guitar, it's the opposite.

  4. There are other common tuning sequence for 6-string guitar: drop D, drop C, or an actual chord tuning.

  5. The 12-string guitar has the same tuning as standard guitar. But each bass string is mirrored using two octaves higher note, usually. And the last three strings are doubled — using similar note. It's great to get wider sound and longer sustain than standard guitar. It has both great sound and tedious maintenance. 😅

  6. The 7-string guitar has one additional lowest note, that is low B. It's mostly used in metal and such. Also the 8-string, the 8th string usually is tuned to low F# (common) or drop E. But of course, those beyond-6-string guitars can also be used for playing a calming music. Multi-purpose. For instance, as a bat.

    Other guitar designs which placed a lot of strings on the instrument have their own unique tuning convention. It usually depends on the person who ordered the design. The stringed instrument (guitar for instance) maker/repairer/engine-er is called luthier, literally a lute-er. It's from French, luth (lute) and English, -er. Luthiers have knowledge about the acoustic. If not... 😂

  7. Guitar usually has frets. The one without them is called fretless guitar.

  8. Conventional guitar has two types of strings: nylon and steel.

  9. The last, there are electric, acoustic, acoustic-electric, and synthesiser guitars.

    There are modern guitars which do experiments with unorthodox system for neck/body/string builds for their designs. Plus the microtonal frets, almost like fretless, but not really.