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How to Tune the B & E Guitar Strings

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

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Summary: Learn how to tune the B and E strings on your electric 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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How to Tune the B & E Guitar Strings

MATT GRAHAM: Okay. So one more feature of this style of electric guitar I'd like to talk about is this little guide right here on the headstock. It's for the B and the E string. In some models, it will be closer to the nut and it will be just a bar that's screwed down. And what these guides do is they provide downward tension on the B and the E string, sometimes even the G, as they come over the nut, and you'll see what I mean in just a second. But I've got my B string here. I'm already threaded it through the body of the guitar, up through the bridge. I'm going to hold it on the nut with my finger here and use the three-finger method to make sure I have the right amount of slack. So I got that right there. I'm going to switch fingers that I'm using to hold it in place. And you can either put it under the guide and then stick it through the tuning post. Or the great thing about these guides where it's not a hole that you have to pass it through is I can go ahead and stick it into my properly-aligned tuning post where the hole is facing the bridge. And once I've got it through there, even once I've started putting tension on that, I just tuck it up under that little guide and it's again going to put downward tension on the nut. So just by a way of review, I'm going to go ahead and wrap clockwise this string end, and I'm going to put it underneath the string that's coming--the part of the string that's coming back towards the nut and I'm going to kink it and then I've got some tension here. I'm going to wrap it back over itself and then I'm going to tuck it up behind that post so that as I twist, it's going to lock down on itself. Hopefully you can see that process happening right now. See it comes around. And then as this second part of the string gets tension in it, it locks. And then as I come around on the second pass, I want to make sure that this part of the string goes underneath that first wrap that's on there so that it will continue to wind down the post. And then if you look, as it tightens up, this little guide is creating downward tension so that the string interacts properly with the nut and doesn't pop out of the nut.

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