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Part of the video series: How to Change the Strings on an Acoustic Guitar

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Summary: Learn how to repeat the process of changing strings on your acoustic guitar to ensure that your instrument will remain in tune and play music beautifully in this free video series.

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Matt Graham Matt Graham is a graduate from Texas A&M University and pursuing a Graduate degree from the University of Texas. He also has a love for cooking and not much m... read more

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Change All of the Strings on Your Guitar

MATT GRAHAM: So now, I'm going to put on another string. This is the G and it's going to actually connect to the top tuning post on the opposite side. So I'll be able to show you the differences there. So again, just by way of review, I'm going to raise my bridge pin and I'm going to put the string into the hole on the bridge pushing down with the bridge pin and pulling up on the string. I'm going to lock it into place, just like that. And then I'm going to move down to the tuning machines. I'm going to turn the tuner until the hole on the tuning post is facing me or facing down to the bridge. And then I'm going to simply insert the string into the hole, pull out all the slack; and then I'm going to put my thumb on the nut and then come down and insert. We're going to do three fingers just to be safe to create the perfect amount of slack for the amount we want to wrap around the tuning post. And then I'm going to move back down the tuning post and we're going to do our locking technique. So since we're on this side, we're still going to start by bringing the string in toward the center of the headstock. That is we're going to wrap it counter-clockwise. Right? And we're going to go underneath the string, lock it, you know, kink it and then pull it back over the string to lock it into place. Then we turn the tuning key counter-clockwise which is causing the tuning post to spin clockwise. And if you can see it's about to reach the point where it locks down on itself right there. And then we just keep turning it and make sure that it goes underneath itself so that it wraps down the post as it gets tighter. And again, it's really only going around the post one time. So that's not much slack at all that we have to deal with there, and then you can use your string winder to tighten it up and bring it into tune. I'm going to put the rest of these strings on and then show you the final steps of restringing a guitar.

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