Tuning Your Violin By Ear: Beginner to Advanced Methods

Today I want to talk about tuning your violin. Tuning is not only essential to setting yourself up to play, but it also improves your ear. In a way you, tune your brain as you tune your instrument. I cover methods for the beginner student, as well as the more pro-level method by listening deeply to the the perfect fifth interval for the intermediate to advanced student. For beginners, I recommend using a reference pitch for each string,. After some practice you will begin to be able to gauge the pitch relationship between two adjacent strings, and dial in that perfect fifth using only one reference pitch. For more advanced students, You will learn to play a double stop, with one string being known to be in tune and the other the string you are tuning. Over time you will train your ear to hear the beating frequency, and by smoothing this out through adjusting the string’s pitch, you will finely tune your instrument.

I hope you find this video effective in improving your tuning ability! Reach out to me if you’d like to cover this and many other topics through private violin instruction.