Wait are we sure harmony matters more than perfect pitch though? Because if you're tuning each string to a specific note, that's literally perfect pitch at work before any chords happen. @dakota_butler39 I get the harmony point but the foundation is those exact single notes. The 'just right' feeling comes from hitting those exact pitches dead on, not just how they mix later. Otherwise you could tune any old way and call it good if it sounded okay together. The whole system falls apart without that perfect pitch base first.