Learn When to Change the Strings on Your Acoustic Guitar

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MATT GRAHAM: I've been playing guitar for over 12 years and in that 12 years, I've changed numerous, hundreds of sets of strings. And I've tried many, many different approaches to changing strings and to securing the strings to the tuning posts. And I found this one method--I call it the locking method. This one method for changing strings just leaves all of the rest of them behind. It's just the most effective for limiting the time that it takes your strings to stretch out when you put a new set of strings on the guitar, which also limits the amount of time you'll spend retuning your guitar after you put a new set of strings on. So if you're watching this video, it's likely that you're in one of the few situations, either you've broken a string that you need to replace, or your strings have totally lost their life and any brilliance in the sound they've just gone dead is what a lot of guitarists call that, or you just want to freshen up your guitar's sound with some new strings. Or maybe you've purchased a guitar at a pawnshop or in a classified ad or from a private seller and it doesn't have all the strings on it or the strings are dead. So as we move through this series, I'm going to show you how to change strings regardless of which of those situations you're in.

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