Videos for first week - Tuning your instruments

Here's a cool video for you guitar players on how to tune your guitar to the tuning we will be using for this course. This Australian guy does a great job explaining how to get in tune!

Here's a video for all of you Mandolin or Fiddle players on how to tune to "Split Dead Man's Tuning." This is very similar to A D A D tuning but the bottom course of strings are split with one tuned to D and the other tuned to A. Just another option for tuning your mandolin.

Here is a very thorough violin tuning method for standard tuning. Keep in mind that if you want to tune to Dead Man's Tuning, you can do that as well, just use the video above, and not this one.

And for you banjo players, here is a video on how to tune your banjo to Open D tuning.

 And finally, here is a video on how to tune your bass to standard tuning. You don't need to tune to an alternate tuning at this point.