How to install a guitar string

Work your way from the outermost strings to the most inner strings. Remove the old strings after they're loosened. Have the string s rest on the nut. This is what the strings should look like when wrapped around the pegs.

Clip the extra strings with wire cutters. This is optional, but recommended. You're finished! Get out there and jam some tunes. Guitar A pack of strings Tuner Wire cutters. Sign Up. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service. Some change their strings after every performance, others every three months religiously, a friend of mine who used to perform regularly only changed them when they broke. Other times when they will probably need changing are when they loose their tone, when they become corroded or if the strings are damaged.

Make sure you buy one that is also a wire clipper and bridge pin puller. There is some debate as to whether all strings should be changed at once or one string at a time, the latter theory came about because it was thought that the change in pressure could damage the truss rod the steel rod running up the neck of the guitar , this myth has pretty well been debunked for any guitar made to a reasonable standard but may hold some weight with a poorly built guitar.

Removing all the strings also gives you a good opportunity to give the guitar a good clean. I will go into more detail about this on another day. You may also like: How to play an acoustic guitar for beginners. So here are the basic steps of how to change acoustic guitar strings, in this basic steps will helps you to know the best way to change acoustic guitar strings. Each string will need retuning after a new one is added and then again after every 10 minutes or so of practice until they have stretched out.

It can feel a little over whelming, I can clearly remember buying my first set, I thought my question was quite simple. The young man was very patient and explaining the difference which took some 10 minutes or so, all the time I was just thinking that it would make no difference which ones I used as I could barely put two chords together anyway.