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=== Tuning Using the 5th Fret ===
To tune your guitar in standard tuning, each string should be an identical pitch to the next string when fretted at the 5th fret. So the 1st string E should be identical to the 2nd string 5th fret. 2nd string open should be B, the first fret is C, 2nd fret C#, 3rd fret D, 4th fret D#, 5th fret E. The only two strings this does not apply to are the 2nd and 3rd strings. Open 2nd string should be equal to 4th fret 3rd string.
e-------------0-
b----------0--5-
g-------0--4----
d----0--5-------
a-0--5----------
e-5-------------
A D G B E
Unfortunately, this requires fretting a note with the left hand while picking with the right hand. After picking, you have to quickly move your right hand onto the correct tuning peg and start rotating. Fretted notes don't sustain as long as open strings, so you may have to use your right hand to pick the note again. Your right will keep going back and forth between picking position and adjusting the tuning pegs, which can be quite frustrating and cumbersome and at some point counter-productive.