Transposing on guitar?

Question:anyone know if you have to transpose on the guitar to tune it

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: anyone know if you have to transpose on the guitar to tune it

Yes, the guitar is in concert pitch. A C on the guitar is really a C, not a Bb or anything like that. However, guitar music is written one octave higher than it sounds.

Hope this helps.

The guitar plays in the key as written but sounds an octave lower. The strings, starting from the highest sounding, are E B G D A E. Middle C is actually found on the B string on the first fret, but when written is played on the 5th string on the 3rd fret. Hope this helps.

well your gonna wanna retune the guitar to they key you want to transpose to. if you dont know how to tune a guitar normally using the 5th fret i would get an electric tuner, they can tell you what note your playing and what key your playing it, that way when you want to go back to your regular key you wont get all messed up. i reccoment the intellitouch pt-2 tuner, i got it at guitar center, its awsome. hope i helped!

Guitars are normally tuned to "concert pitch".
Many are tuned down a semitone where an E chord shape will sound as Eb.

Capos help for transposition.

Transposing is not necessary for tuning the guitar. You tune to the same notes as C instruments. The only caveat is that the sound of the guitar is one octave below the same sound as written for piano.

you genreally don't tune except for effect

guitar is tuned to e minor a relative of g