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How To Change Your Electric Guitar Strings
By Mantius Cazaubon, Fri Dec 9th
Many guitarists, especially beginners, struggle with changingelectric guitar strings. But it really is a simple exercise.Here's a straightforward guide you can follow: Tools. You will need a small needle nose pliers to cut and bend thestrings, and a string winder to help you wind the stringsquickly.
Remove the string. You should change each guitar string one at a time. That way,you will avoid warping the guitar neck, and you will be able toquickly tune the new string to the other strings. I usually remove the 6th string first. Use your string winderand turn the tuning peg until the string becomes very slack. Nowcut off the twisted end of the old string so that it slipseasily out of the guitar. Then wind the top section of yourstring out of the tuning peg. What you do next will vary depending on the type of electricguitar you have. The one I'm using, the strings go through thebody. Remove the old string. Pay close attention to the way yourold string comes off, and do the opposite when putting a new oneback on. Replace the string. Now let's put back a new string. Feed the string through a holein the body of your electric guitar, or the tail piece. As saidearlier, it depends on your particular electric guitar. Get theball end of your string in place. Now pull the string over the bridge, over the nut of the neck,and up past
the tuning peg. Make sure it isn't slack. The newstring is very long so you will have to cut some of it off.Leave enough string for a few winds around the tuning peg. Twoinches above the peg should work. Pull the string through the hole of the tuning peg and beginwinding it. The string shouldn't be slack. To keep the tension,place your fingers under the string. With the guitar facing you,wind the tuning pegs on the left side clockwise. Wind those onthe right side anticlockwise. To speed up the winding process, place your string winder overthe tuning peg and wind until the string becomes tight. Thentake off the peg winder and use the tuning peg to tune thestring. Now that you've changed and tuned your 6th string, you can justrepeat the process for all the other strings. Breaking in. Since the strings are new, they can stretch and go out of tuneeasily. They need to break in. You can speed up the breaking inprocess by stretching the string yourself. Give the strings afew gentle pulls or do some spirited strumming. You will find yourself having to tune your guitar quite a bitafter replacing your strings. But after one or two dayseverything should be okay.
About the author:Mantius Cazaubon offers a buying guide to helping you choose anelectric guitar that meets your needs on his site,Electric-Guitars-Guide.com. Visit Visit Electric Guitars Guide.com for electric guitar lessons,tips, and reviews.
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