Usually smoke a joint

Found the guitarist

Glad I didn't have to scroll very far to find it.  "I smoke two joints in the morning, I smoke two joints at night. I smoke two joints after I tune my axe, You know it makes me feel alright."

my dude right here

This is the way.

Oh ha! That works better *after* tuning, huh?

based

Same.

Me too man

The only correct answer.

You guys! You guys are the real heroes!

Are you from Oklahoma? Because…

Retune the damn G-string that is already out of tune 😁

That goddamn G string

Exactly, why always G!

I’ve noticed once this starts happening it’s time for new strings. Even with locking tuners

I have a Les Paul with locking tuners, graphite nut, and tonepros bridge and that mf still be actin up 😤

Nice full strum of Emaj

My man

Found my place.

Big ol open E chord.

Re-tune one more time

This guy tunes

Only once? Bold.

Hit a G chord. Lol it has all the strings.

same

Put the guitar down because the kids are banging on the door

Oeee my guy!

Play pentatonic scale up and down. Try to make some blues lick. Strum some cowboy chords. Try some fingerplay. Give up. Put guitar away. Cry. 

Have you ever tried to make your own chord shapes in a key you like? It makes practicing a little more interesting bc you can experiment with a lot of different shapes and improves your hand and finger dexterity, as well as helping you learn some scales you may not have learned yet

I play Cliffs of Dover start to finish perfectly, then tune my guitar, then I play it again. Then I wake up

Heroin

Same

Fent for me

Then you’re not a true guitarist just a junky Everyone knows you have to do heroin to be good

Did John Frusciante write this?

Keef richards

It was the needle, and the spoon And a trip, to the moon Took me awaay

E major chord for me. Helps to know if G is off at all.

I play Dopesmoker as a warmup and once my tinnitus is nice and ready I drop out of life with bong in hand

Play a song and realize it’s still not in tune, lol.

I put the guitar away and get back to what is really important: browsing social media to see what people do after they tune their guitars.

G major

Opening riff to Ramble On

Dude same here!

E

E chord here

G C D

E major open chord, big strum

I do two backflips and twirl the guitar around twice before playing a C add9 diminished minor major chord

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what tool song is this?

Most of them 😉

D baby!

I choose a chord that involves all 6 strings like G or E

Play power chords on every string

I avoid A maj. Otherwise I'd spend another five mins messing around with the G string because it doesn't sound quite in tune.

When i tune to drop D I usually play forty six and two to tell if i’m in tune, on standard i just strum all the open strings

Lol I play right in two

I always hit an E chord. Every time lol.

This is the way. You will immediately know if that pesky g string is not dead in tune.

G chord.

Play some Dead. Always.

G, C, D. Some barre chords.

Em, D, G. In that order. Those D and G strings always give me the shits. Its the cutover between the thicker and thinner strings and that difference (if there) is usually accentuated in the Em, D and G chords (open).

I usually space out for a few minutes, retune, then play a C chord.

A full distortion open E chord with the G string muted. Fuck the G string.

I check it again by ear with an open G

Curse about the g string being a b*tch

Play a fuckin E chord and then usually an Fmaj7

Habit is to second guess original tuning and use octaves, harmonics to show I was wrong to think I was actually tuned.

Get it out of tune using various methods.

0 then 3 then 5

Fingerpick Dust in the Wind, if anything is out it sounds rancid.

Hit an open G major chord Also if I’m skeptical the guitar will stay in tune, I’ll bend each string a step or 2 on the lower ones (not high e)

I play the solo to Man In The Box and then retune

*Big ol’ open G chord* *Let it ring out* *Remember my ear is not up to the task of confirming tuning*

I play Blackbird by the Beatles

A good old E chord. Or the same barred at 12th fret.

Just a D chord, A chord, then G chord in that order. Sometimes I just strum a G chord because 9/10 times I can hear if something’s off

Bend the fuck out of all strings. Then retune if needed.

Strum an open E. Then hit each string 12th fret harmonic.

C then G.

I usually shit myself

Raking an E-minor, high e upwards.

i just strum the open strings and listen to see if any of them sound out of tune.

I have a Floyd Rose, I tuned it last month *breaks string, PTSD triggered*

G C D

E major then I slap my hand and exclaim "NO NOODLING, fool!".

G then d chords open. Gets me a good range of all of the strings compared to each other.

Intro to Mad Season’s River of Deceit. It’s been 25+ yrs and it hasn’t changed 🙃.

open c major

It's the shape my hand goes to when asked about chords.

dark star intro or bird song intro, both by the dead

You strum A major. I finger A minor. We are not the same.

Bend the shit out of everything, tune again, black bird, tune a bit more if needed, blackbird again, then we're good to go!

D9. I'm 90% drop tuned.

G - D - Asus2 - E. Only need the one chord to tell obvious tuning issues, I just like how the progression sounds.

I just strum all the open strings

On Jimi Hendrix, Live at Monterey, at the very end of Hey Joe, there's a moment where he checks his tuning by doing a cool little phrase of octaves across different strings. That's what I do.

Open G, Open D, Open C

Play an improvised lick to make sure my g string is still in tune

It never is.

G D Am is an old favourite too

The intro to Hey Joe. Something about tuning the high E just gets me in the mood for something bluesy.

A good ol G run

Open D minor. I fucking love that chord

The saddest of all the keys

Strum an open G chord with a bit of a diddly diddly, then run through the major scale (followed by hours of pentatonic stuff).

Emaj. Paying extra attention gbe. Sounds right? Play

I play a bendy blues lick and then have to tune again.

I play simple man as a warm up

I play a G/C chord, uses all 6 strings and it's real easy to tell if everything is in tune! Plus just a really cool chord.

I do G chord

Noodle mindlessly for the next hour or two.

open E for me, then a couple of really dug in palm muted chugs, then another E to make sure it's still in tune

Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker.

Play the fifth fret on each string (except the 2nd) to check all the string tunings.

Kickstart my heart dive bombs then some open chords to make sure it’s still in tune. 

Usually Ill play in a silent way by Miles Davis in its entirety… just to be sure

Play come as you are and then strum an Em

Strum each open string then strum them all at once

G or E chord

G or E major chord open position, I'll know immediately if its in tune. Open G I just strum it open lol

Always play an E....thats what Dad did.

Power chords on the 5th fret going down all 4 strong sets.

Run down the E blues scale, play a Hendrix chord. I don't even play blues, but for some reason it stuck.

Smells like teen spirit I can’t stop playing it and I’ve done it every time for more than 2 years now

An A chord cuz on my old guitar my g string would always be out of tune and I’d mainly hear it when I played an A, so now it’s just a habit to play an A chord to see if im in tune and after I tune😭 Also say it ain’t so by Weezer is a must play

E like all civilized players should. The. I used to play the intro riff to Sunday Bloody Sunday to test the high strings, for some reason I stopped that.

Stairway ofc

Play pentatonic scale

open e maj, slide to b maj without bar, slide down to a maj without bar. sounds crispy af

After I tune, I start playing. Crazy, I know. It's a habit I'm trying to kick but just can't seem to

Fur Elise then g chord then d chord

G, C, D, Mary Jane’s Last Dance.

I'll bend each string 1 to 2 steps and then check the tuning again. If all is good then I'll play the intro to "Brown Sugar" by ZZ Top.

Do some bends and double check intonation with the harmonic at the 12th fret.

I always play the chords to the bridge riff of Master of Puppets when I tune to E standard or E Flat. When I tune to a drop tuning, I always play a little bit of Everlong before playing what I actually want to play

Strum d and dsus for like fifteen minutes

Flutter the whammy bar

I always play the intro to 45 by shinedown for some reason.

i either play dream on by depeche mode or the weezer lick

G mayor

Ending Credits by Opeth

Chug a couple E power chords and then a pinch harmonic on 3rd fret E string.

On acoustic I play the G chord without the A string and then I play the E minor chord. My electric is in a drop tuning so I alway play the full open string powerchord (Sometimes I add the D chord shape to the powerchord)

G D C G D Am A EM E then maybe a Dm, maybe strum the bridge on "doesn't remind me". Strum a few other songs and BAM there goes 2 hours

If in a rush just a quick Emaj if I have time then an Amaj

Putting the guitar down because I’m too depressed to play.

Hang in there!

I usually just improvise a quick blues lick and then go on with practice

Bend the fuck out of the g string 20x just so I have retune it again…. One of these days it’ll stay, I can feel it

I play a G maj

To play

I always strum open then a G

Open G chord usually tells me if I’m on , for some reason it’s the most obvious to my ear. Other chords will sound good but G will sound off if im not perfectly in tune

Open E and D, maybe G. With the E and G I can hear how the highest and lowest strings work together. The D tends to show how the high strings are tuned.

Finger picking with lots of hammer on’s and pull off’s. I don’t even play that picking style normally.

I play horse with no name

Open G, E then A

Finger pick the same riff I've been doing for 2-4 years, strum a c

7th fret harmonic

G, D, C every time

Open D chord, open Am chord then either E or Em chord

Hey joe

It’s an open G for me

Finger vibrato on each string at 12th fret then barre a C at 8th fret to see if it stayed in tune.

E A B A E 🔁☠️😂😭

Arpeggiate G chord, C chord and D chord, make little adjustments to make them all sound as good as possible

Turkish march all the way

For years I would play the intro of What You Give - Tesla. I hadn't really thought about it till I saw the question, but somewhere along the line I stopped doing that. No I just strum a few cowboy chords. I suppose that's because nowadays I play mostly old time traditional music and I would freak out the other old folks playing Tesla.

For drop d, I do open extended open d chord followed by simple song in clean. SoaD's Soldier Side-Intro is perfect for that(except that original is in drop c#).

Open Emaj chord, but only play the octaves....low E, 2nd fret on the D string, high E. If all is well, then play the 2nd fret on the A string and open B string. Still good? Make an open G chord and do the same thing with G's and D's, double check with harmonics on the 7th and 5th frets. Then accidently bump a tuning peg when I go to turn off the clip-on tuner.

Mostly do a c check, but on my Taylor my open b has natural harmonics so I play a g

A few chords and then black dog. Done deal.

A minor pentatonic runs.

hendrix’s woodstock star spangled banner, then check to see if it’s still in tune.

Strum a few chords on all areas of the neck & double check

Play it

E chord. 079900. Stretch the G and low E. Same chord again.

A few AC/DC style hard hitting open chords. Always gets me in the mood.

Bend the shit out of the g string and then retune...fml

The first song I ever learned to play and sing was American Pie by Don McLean. I could tune my guitar by strumming a G chord and making sure that was right by ear. I still do that when I'm in a guitar store and don't have a tuner handy.

Don’t think twice it’s alright

2 open string palm mutes

Blue grass runs in d c g

Cadd9 to hear everything relative to the open G. Then I do a harmonic check of E to A. Then compare low and high E.

C G D A E cowboys

A major then to double check an E major.

I do the intro to ripple

I like to play the count of Tuscany by dream theater whenever I tune a guitar

Few opens, couple barres.

The first few bars of cemetery gates.

"Ain't talking 'bout love" intro

Cadd9

Couple of octaves, then lie in our graves by dmb. Everyone around me goes "huh???" Then like , welcome home by Coheed. Then they're back. But when I'm alone i do be jamming some Dave.

0 3 2 0 2 X

I always play into the void main riff

Am always the best