Everyone and welcome back to Swift guitar lessons today. I'll give you a quick maintenance lesson. How to change a string on an acoustic guitar to get the job done. We're going to be using these earth wood Ernie ball guitar strings my personal favorite. This a string winder just get those strings on a little faster. Let's get started alright so we've got a close look at the guitar. We've all been in this situation before we've just popped. In this case, our g string the first thing. I need to do is use my string winder most of these have a little notch. Here for prying up the bridge pin so that’s the first thing. I'm going to do pop up the bridge pin get underneath there get a little leverage and then out it comes okay. So this is a great tool. I'm going to take the old string out and discard it get my bridge pin back. I pulled the 22gauge string out of the Ernie ball earth wood light gauge string set okay. I’m going to pop this new string out it should only take a couple of minutes to get this together. Now grab the ball attend of the string I'm going to drop the ball end into the bridge.
Now the fluted side of my bridge pin is going tube facing
that string. While it's inside the bridge so I'm just going to push down and
also pull up on the string. I push here we go alright and that sits nice and
easy. We're ready to attach it to the tuner okay so now. We have the new string
inside the bridge we’re ready to remove the old string from the tuner. How To Restring A Guitar we just unwind
it pulls it right out does it usually fight too much alright. We're ready to
get rid of this. We’re going to drag our new string upend through the eye hole
of our tuner okay. So having a string winder is going to make this a lot
easier. We're just going to put it right here on the string tuning knob and
turn it counterclockwise. I'm holding the string down with my left hands that
way it stays nice and taut want to get a nice tight line. We want to bend the
string across the tuner it’s what we call notching tighten it upend finally.
We're ready to cut off the excess and we're good to go alright everyone thank
you. So much for watching hope you enjoyed this. How to change an acoustic
guitar string. I play more coming up so
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Philadelphia St. heck face. This is John Dreyer for Fender University and I
like to show. You one way to change the strings on your acoustic guitar. Now
there are a couple of different reasons why you would want to change. your
strings one and the obvious reason is that they just look dirty.
I’m going to start with my low E string which is the brass
or the gold ball end here take the bridge pin. You can see here on the bridge
pin there's a little cutout that corresponds with the string. When it's inside
the bridge so what I'm going to do is. When they put the string in first and
then be sure to put the pin in with the cutout facing the string. I’m just
going to press that in and pull up on the slack okay and just let that hang for
right. Now I'm going to take the next string which is the candy apple or their
ball end and repeat. The process the string in has a little groove or the
cutout facing. The string press that inland pulls off the slack. Now I'm ready
to attach How To Restring A Guitar
the strings tithe machine heads okay. So I'm going to start with my low String
here and attach that to the machine head. Be careful on your end pins
sometimes. I like to pop back up just need to push them back in. When it comes
time to detaching the string to the peg-like to pre-cut the string what. I'm
going to do is I'm going to measure up the distance of one and a half-machine
heads. This will give me the proper length and the proper windings on the
machine head. Remember most acoustics have three tuners on the left and three
tuners on the right. So what you want to do is thread the string through the
peg from the center or the middle of the headstock. Wind them the same way so
I’m going to start this through. The hole going to leave just a little bit
hanging out the other side. it's going to pull it down and as I wind I'm
starting from the top. I want to finish on the bottom of the peg this gives me
the proper angle over the nutso. I'm just going to grab my string winder here
and start winding again starting on the top. I don’t want to overlap the wines
either. I want to keep them nice and even to the bottom. I'm not going to knit
the pitch right now I just want to get enough tension on them. I'll go back to
tune them and stretch them later so let's go through.
The next string ghetto makes sure these pins are staying in
the bridge so again. I'm going to measure up the distance of one and a
half-machine heads from the machine head. You ‘rewinding which is about where
I'm going to clip the string again going in and winding. It from the center or
the middle of the headstock okay. I'm just leaving a little bit sticking out
the other side and just get that started and just kind of put. Some pressure on
it holds it down and starts winding again from the top. Tithe bottom and of
course make sure it lines up in the appropriate nut slot sowed have our first
two strings on. Let’s continue to process okay now that. I've made it to the other
side the headstock same process same everything except. I'm just going to
insert the string from the opposite sides coming in from the middle in the
center. I'm going to go through this way instead. This way again measuring
outdone and a half-machine heads which are about. here How To Restring A Guitar I'm going to clip that string just want to
go in from this side towards. The center-pull the string back gives it. Some
tension there and starts winding in the opposite direction. The last three
again winding from the top tithe bottom of the peg being. Sure not to overlap
the wines you want to end up in the bottom of the peg there. You go and let’s
continue to the last two and as I mentioned for the wound strings. You don’t
want to overlap the strings in the peg but actually for the unwound strings.
You want to have your first winding above the inserted string on the peg and
the second. Yellow this will hold the string in place and the strings are thin
enough. I won't affect tuning okay now that we have all six strings on the
guitar. You're ready to tune it up to pitch and start playing.
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