Hi. I'm Jim Deeming. Instructor for JamPlay.com.
I'm going to talk to you today about putting new strings on your guitar.
A lot of students especially when they are new to the guitar can be intimidated by the process
and wait for someone else to do it for them or it just never gets done.
There is really no reason to be that afraid of the job it's not hard to do and it's really worth doing.
Playing a guitar with dead strings certainly takes that life out of it and a lot of the fun out of it.
So what I want to do is show you how easy this can be and maybe eliminate a couple common mistakes that are made
when people put strings on the guitar.
First I am going to talk about or review if you have already seen this where strings are anchored and what it looks like.
The tuning mechanisms are up here in the head of the guitar.
We have tuning pegs that where they actually tie off.
Everything runs through the nut on the guitar and on the opposite end we are anchored here on the saddle behind the bridge.
What we will be doing is focusing on how to get these connections solid and what we can do to eliminate slipping and going out of tune.