Ok. We are done.
We have nicely tied off and cut the strings up here.
There's not a lot of slack or a lot of winds to let the tuning move and we've got bright sounding brand new strings ready to go, ready to play.
If you want to reiterate that it's worth doing this fairly often.
How often is an individual choice and depends on what kind of strings you buy, the chemical make up of your hands, how much you do or don't
put oil on the strings and how often you play.
I'm not rigid about this but I would say on average I change strings after about eight to twelve hours of playing on a given set.
There are certainly some guitar players that are more fanatical about that.
Tommy Emmanuel for example changes strings before every show.
Literally minutes before he walks on stage he is doing what I just showed you to do.
It sounds really good and it's also proof that what I'm talking about here is a good locking mechanism for strings that won't move, they'll stay in tune.
Now I'm going to switch guitars to a nylon string and we won't repeat this whole process but I want to explain the difference in each end
and how they tie off.
The rest of the principles are the same.