Lmao I was thinking the exact same thing. It's 1:25 AM rn. I'm 28 and I've been at it since I was 16, so 12 years for me as well and I still haven't learned to do it this way
FUCK I READ THIS AND LAUGHED AND WHEN I GOT HOME TO RESTRING MY GUITAR OWN MY OWN FOR THE FIRST TIME I HAD TO UNSCREW SO MANY THINGS IT TOOK ME AN HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES AGHHHH
If you are a beginner and don't know what video to choose, please use this one. I broke my strings using the other videos from what looked like more "professional" channels. This works nice and easy!
Ah yeah it works surprisingly well with a trombone. I never thought a woodwind would need strings though. Make sure you don't jam the valves while repairing
Hi if you're reading this, I just restrung my first electric guitar, and I have some lessons for ya: 1. make sure you dont do more than 3 winds around the post, I found out that my high E breaks after 3 :/ 2. MAKE SURE TO STRETCH YOUR STRINGS! 3. make sure it's a bit loose when you enter the string through the post, you dont want it to be very tight, you want to be able to stretch the string upwards, if it's tight and you try to tune it it will split. 4. you can do it, it's not impossible I promise c: Edit: I have a stratocaster, and I used 10 gauge d'addario strings
Agreed on point 1, I’m trying to string a high E with 11 gauge and it seems to come out of place after around 3 windings. Also, is there any kind of knot I have to make with the string or is it just held in place by the windings?
hey, i’m not sure if you will see this or not but i am doing my strings and i have just put it on at the end i finished but it keeps going loose at the end and looks baggy i’m not sure how else to explain it really but it needs to stay in place and not look so baggy, how do i do this?
I bunched all my left over strings together and duct taped the sharp ends. Makes for great toy for your cats. I wouldn’t leave them with it though just to be safe
been playing guitar for over 10 years but still gotta consult a tutorial everytime i change my strings (once after many months because i only play guitar when I'm gonna record something). This guy made it so simple (cuz i'm a dummy) that I probably won't forget. thank u :)
I've been playing for 38 years and still don't have it down. These tutorials always ignore the high, thin strings (E and B) which are the ones I always struggle with. They don't want to stay in place during winding and it drives me nuts.
Isn't that wonderful? When something in life actually is EASIER than you thought it would be? I smiled when I read your post. I thought "ah, good. somebody's life is going better than they thought it would."
A floyd rose is easier than a “ TUNE- O-MATIC bridge …… lmao why ??? Cause for a long time all I had was a guitar with a floyd rose, and I’m cheap so I refused to pay someone else lmao, fast forward to my Gibson explorer lmao “ HOW U RESTRING DIS”*****
I sold my floyd rose because the tuning stability and restringing process was so terrible. Even the guitar techs at my store took a long time to restring it. I now use a fixed bridge and my guitar stays in tune perfectly, plus I can easily restring it myself without having an aneurysm.
@@Ferrichrome I recently got back into guitar, and when I was researching which I was going to buy, people saying this is why I went with a fixed bridge and I’m so glad I did lol.
Can't thank you enough for this video. When I asked my guitar-playing friend how to fix my broken strings, he made it sound like it was some big ordeal. This made it doable in less than half an hour (all 6 strings). One thing that 'might' be worth mentioning, some guitars (like mine, apparently) have those holes through which you thread the string in the back of the body, not on the front like in the video. Either way, this was greatly helpful, thank you!
I have played for years and I couldn't string a guitar. This has tormented my soul. I watched this video and cracked it. I have played in bands etc and I always got someone to do it for me or paid a guitar tech at a store. Lol. Now I can finally do it myself and I have taught my son who has just started to learn guitar. Brilliant video. Clear and to the point. Thank you. All that wasted money lol. Oh well. I got there eventually.
Thanks a lot! I'm playing live this week with a Les Paul Special. First time playing it and I wasn't exactly sure how to change a busted string on it, but thanks to your tutorial, now I do. Thanks again, Mike
So glad I found this video. Just bought a used guitar that I want to clean without replacing the strings because they're still good, but every other video has mentioned clipping the old strings so they come off easier, but I just needed this video, told me how to unstring and restring without having to cut anything. Thank you sooo much.
Gabrielle Lee Jarrett you know you really shouldn't take all of the strings off together? A guitar is balanced to keep tension with pitch tuned strings in place. Therefore, only remove/replace one string at a time to keep your guitar healthy 🤘🏻
Thanks for making it so clear. It may sound naff but I love my guitar and I've heard a few stories of people ruining theirs whilst re-stringing, so I was a little flaky about doing this myself. The guitar's now re-strung and sounds as good as ever. Cheers.
1:26 Thank you so much, that tension slack part is very important if you haven't changed strings before, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I was doing wrong as I wasn't getting any windings around the post!. As usual, the internet is filled with allot of people talking shit but never really saying anything that matters, Thanks again.
Best instructional video. I'm no pro but have had a guitar for a few years. Whenever I need to change strings I come back here to make sure I do it right. I don't play much but my strings last me around a year.
Crazy 14 year old video still teaching me things. I was taught by a buddy in highschool how to string my guitar and have been doing it that way ( the wrong way) since. Lately I have been having a issue with my strings not lasting as long as they should and a guy at my local guitar center told me that it could be the way im stringing my guitar. So I found this video and so far these are the longest lasting strings that I have had. So I needed to spent the time to come back and thank this video. Helped out a ton
Great video - it’s not that I haven’t changed guitar strings countless times before, but having locking tuners most of my playing career has made things easy. Now that I finally got around to changing the strings on my acoustic with non-locking tuners, I had to turn to the internet for guidance. This was a big help - thank you!
I have always done it the way shown in this video, but I have recently seen people suggesting a better way would be to make a loop to secure the string to itself around the post. It's supposed to keep it more secure, and make it less likely to come out of tune
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was so done with going to my local guitar center and spending 50 dollars to getting it restrung AND having to wait 4-5 days for them to finish I only needed to restring my high E and it’s not the prettiest where the knob is but it gets the sound I want and need so works for me😂 THANK YOU!
Something that may be worth looking into is a set of locking tuners. Just stick the string in, and screw the knob tight and you're done. Ive actually forgotten how to string standards at this point, since i've become so spoiled.
I don't know if anybody else mentioned it, but a general rule of thumb for how much slack you would need is you would measure to the next tuning peg. that should be enough to make enough revolutions around the head of the peg that you're running the string through to not have too much wrapped around the peg (which looks hideous 🤣) or too little to keep it tightly wound.
thanks for posting this video. i recently broke my high E string and was able to get it nice and tight with about 3 and a half winds around the post after watching how you guide each wrap downwards with your finger. now i can go back to jamming out :)
I haven't strung up a guitar in years and used this video to re-learn it. I found I was using way too may wraps. A person commented that a good way to measure how much string is to use the distance to the next tuner. That gave me almost exactly 3 wraps on each string. Thanks for the video. What would we do without these teachers?
dammit i didn't have one of those wire cutters so i just grabbed any scrissors i could find around the house. now all the scissors we have a visible chip in their blades lol. and that tiny first string is still intact. guitar strings are surprisingly tough!
Only issue I have is which way to wind the string, I think you go above the original positioning then every one after that goes under the original positioning and he even says that, but in the video continues winding above. Any help?
Great video! Keeps it simple yet complete. And doesn't have to rely on one those tuning crank things which I don't have. Other videos I watched were not helpful.
I don't have a guitar, I'm planning on getting one and i want to say, this guy is a legend! i understand everything easily even though i don't have it!
He means that you don't want to wind the "tuning machine" towards the body of the guitar. Wind it the other way, just the way that he doing. If you look carefully at his hand, you'll see which way he's turning it.
From the hole in the post, each wind should be below the next so that you don't have string above the hole. Start at the hole and make each wind a little closer to the headstock.
Maybe a good tip for beginners aswel is that you'll have to do it one by one! If you just cut through your strings or loosen all of them up too fast the pressure change will be high and not good for your guitar.
I see on some videos that the individual wound the tuning heads in a clockwise manner and some do it counter-clockwise. Does it matter which direction this is done or not?
you know how youtube started putting "recommended for you" videos on the right side? "how to string an electric guitar for dummies" - "recommended for you" I got pwned by youtube
so super easy!!! I was having problems with one of the strings...and the end bit of this with stretching the string of the tutorial helped me a lot! thanks for this! :-) xx
What you are calling the 'bridge' is not the bridge, it's the 'stop-tailpiece; it's job is to anchor the strings. The 'bridge' supports the the string-saddles, and it's the item closest to the Pickup!
8233Eire This is somewhat true, for the style of guitar he happens to be demonstrating on. Other brands have all of the parts you mentioned incorporated into one unit.
I've never restrung my Electric guitar I've always taken it and had someone else who knows how to do it put new strings onto my guitar this is very helpful
He says it should be wrapped around two to three times, so I kept tightening, and snap! Just broke my replacement string. Not sure if it was something I did wrong, but viewers beware.
He doesn't explain that you gotta leave a lot of slack when you first start threading it round the peg because I think I just ruined mine by only rapping around once :/
You mean you weren't listening. And what does it matter that it was months ago. It still happened. It's three years ago now. I hope you still think about this moment. The moment you didn't fucking listen.
Bung The Booce There's TONS of videos on how to change strings for Fenders, its the same process just few changes because the design and body isnt the same.
Yo dont know if you will see this but thank you so much I watched many other videos and one from a good brand and I broke a string withing 60 seconds of this video I changed 2 strings thank you so much man this was really helpful
yesterday i bought a new set of strings. then i eagerly replaced my old strings with the new one. but i was ignorant and thought i could do this with my own. so the 6th string snapped and i bought another one today. now i'm watching this very helpful video. I learned my lesson!
i would just like to say in my own opinion: you shouldnt add "dummies" to the name. i know its giving a meaning as in for people who dont understand but its still not right. Nobody is dumb and nobody is smart, stop labeling people as for instence if someone called you stupid you would be a little upset but if someone called you smart you would be proud. Is smart the #1 label you wanna go by? I think not. As I should say again, This is MY OWN opinion.
its just a slogan that was used to make how to's really marketable, which as you can see succeeded in them gaining those views, i kno it sux tho, thts business
Here's the thing Bear, The term "for dummies" is associated with those yellow books. It's been around for so long, that using it lets people know exactly what kind of video they are gonna find. Even beginner videos might assume you know the basic things. "For dummies" means it is the most basic, beginner video possible. I'm not sure why you would come here just to find something that offends you.
I got drunk and put bass stings on instead
does it djent tho...
You made that guitar better, bass>guitar, don’t @ me
Elder Rusty @
Andrew A shit
This comment had me dying
Me: plays guitar for 12 years
Also TH-cam at 3 in the morning: how to change strings for dummies
Literally me rn loool 2:30am
Lol I hear ya
Lmao I was thinking the exact same thing. It's 1:25 AM rn. I'm 28 and I've been at it since I was 16, so 12 years for me as well and I still haven't learned to do it this way
Maybe YT low-key tells you you've been doing that wrong for the past 12 years. LMAO
Thank you lol
"restringing an electric guitar is easy, because the hardware of the guitar is designed to make it easy."
floyd rose: haha, bitch you thought.
I have a Floyd rose, and I need to re-string, help.
Is it really that difficult?
#floydroseprobs
sha-d paul ikr
Nigga, I broke a string in my king V 7 years ago and still haven't re stringed that bitch.
FUCK I READ THIS AND LAUGHED AND WHEN I GOT HOME TO RESTRING MY GUITAR OWN MY OWN FOR THE FIRST TIME I HAD TO UNSCREW SO MANY THINGS IT TOOK ME AN HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES AGHHHH
If you are a beginner and don't know what video to choose, please use this one. I broke my strings using the other videos from what looked like more "professional" channels. This works nice and easy!
Do I leave some slack for the thinner strings like the 2nd 3rd and 1st?
@@Matthew750-4 yes about 2 frets the top three 3 strings you want 1 fret slack
Yep same happened to me worked perfect
Just changed the strings for the first time, my guitar sounds killer. Thanks for the video, it worked perfectly.
Same, just did it 10 mins ago ! It’s great!
Does this work with a trombone? Please help
Ah yeah it works surprisingly well with a trombone. I never thought a woodwind would need strings though. Make sure you don't jam the valves while repairing
No! Absolutely not! But I have found that it works great with a Tuba. Hope this helps.
*hold the fuck up*
Yeah you have to submerge the trombone in pinto beans first
yes
Hi if you're reading this, I just restrung my first electric guitar, and I have some lessons for ya:
1. make sure you dont do more than 3 winds around the post, I found out that my high E breaks after 3 :/
2. MAKE SURE TO STRETCH YOUR STRINGS!
3. make sure it's a bit loose when you enter the string through the post, you dont want it to be very tight, you want to be able to stretch the string upwards, if it's tight and you try to tune it it will split.
4. you can do it, it's not impossible I promise c: Edit: I have a stratocaster, and I used 10 gauge d'addario strings
Agreed on point 1, I’m trying to string a high E with 11 gauge and it seems to come out of place after around 3 windings. Also, is there any kind of knot I have to make with the string or is it just held in place by the windings?
@@summersierras You dont need to make any knots, you just put the string through the little hole after youre done winding it
hey, i’m not sure if you will see this or not but i am doing my strings and i have just put it on at the end i finished but it keeps going loose at the end and looks baggy i’m not sure how else to explain it really but it needs to stay in place and not look so baggy, how do i do this?
I find this difficult to do with cats around.
Sam Wright I found it difficult to do with a baby brother trying to slap my guitar off of my damn hands
The cats are brown now.
Lmfao dealing with that as we speak
cats are pointless
-Ron Swanson
I bunched all my left over strings together and duct taped the sharp ends. Makes for great toy for your cats. I wouldn’t leave them with it though just to be safe
240p, we meet again.
You're doing it wrong. This is worth mentioning when the video isn't 10 years old and uploaded in 2009.
I rather watch a good simple video tut in 240 ider 360p than a uninformative video.
g. koch exactly. Any day.
that funny hehe
ArcDevErik welp now the video is 11 years old
been playing guitar for over 10 years but still gotta consult a tutorial everytime i change my strings (once after many months because i only play guitar when I'm gonna record something). This guy made it so simple (cuz i'm a dummy) that I probably won't forget. thank u :)
Same here 🙋
I've been playing for 38 years and still don't have it down. These tutorials always ignore the high, thin strings (E and B) which are the ones I always struggle with. They don't want to stay in place during winding and it drives me nuts.
This is so much easier than I thought it would be lmao
i cant fucking do it
Isn't that wonderful? When something in life actually is EASIER than you thought it would be? I smiled when I read your post. I thought "ah, good. somebody's life is going better than they thought it would."
TheFreezingBrain it really is :) thank you for your reply! that honestly made my day :)
@@TheBsavage ♥️🙏
@@s0ngf0rx Now that it's been 8 months im assuming you're able to do it?
"Restringing an electric guitar is pretty easy, because the hardware of the guitar is designed to make it easy"
Unless it has a Floyd Rose
A floyd rose is easier than a “ TUNE- O-MATIC bridge …… lmao why ???
Cause for a long time all I had was a guitar with a floyd rose, and I’m cheap so I refused to pay someone else lmao, fast forward to my Gibson explorer lmao
“ HOW U RESTRING DIS”*****
@@NEO_Trojanmuldrop4 That just boils down to experience
I sold my floyd rose because the tuning stability and restringing process was so terrible. Even the guitar techs at my store took a long time to restring it. I now use a fixed bridge and my guitar stays in tune perfectly, plus I can easily restring it myself without having an aneurysm.
@@Spatino101 Put a Bigsby on my Les Paul, got used to restringing it after a while😂😂
@@Ferrichrome I recently got back into guitar, and when I was researching which I was going to buy, people saying this is why I went with a fixed bridge and I’m so glad I did lol.
Can't thank you enough for this video. When I asked my guitar-playing friend how to fix my broken strings, he made it sound like it was some big ordeal. This made it doable in less than half an hour (all 6 strings).
One thing that 'might' be worth mentioning, some guitars (like mine, apparently) have those holes through which you thread the string in the back of the body, not on the front like in the video. Either way, this was greatly helpful, thank you!
Floyd rose when string change
I don’t appreciate being called a dummy however, I really appreciate this video..... because I’m a dummy
I have played for years and I couldn't string a guitar. This has tormented my soul. I watched this video and cracked it. I have played in bands etc and I always got someone to do it for me or paid a guitar tech at a store. Lol. Now I can finally do it myself and I have taught my son who has just started to learn guitar. Brilliant video. Clear and to the point. Thank you. All that wasted money lol. Oh well. I got there eventually.
Thanks a lot! I'm playing live this week with a Les Paul Special. First time playing it and I wasn't exactly sure how to change a busted string on it, but thanks to your tutorial, now I do. Thanks again, Mike
For those of you whose strings are breaking, just make sure you don't tune it too fast :) Be especially delicate with the last 3 strings.
Thanks for this video! I apparently haven't been leaving enough slack when I restring my guitars, so this has been very informative for me.
So glad I found this video. Just bought a used guitar that I want to clean without replacing the strings because they're still good, but every other video has mentioned clipping the old strings so they come off easier, but I just needed this video, told me how to unstring and restring without having to cut anything. Thank you sooo much.
Gabrielle Lee Jarrett you know you really shouldn't take all of the strings off together? A guitar is balanced to keep tension with pitch tuned strings in place. Therefore, only remove/replace one string at a time to keep your guitar healthy 🤘🏻
I've been playing guitar for 3 years now, and finally I learnt how to change strings now... nice video man, thanks!
Thanks for making it so clear. It may sound naff but I love my guitar and I've heard a few stories of people ruining theirs whilst re-stringing, so I was a little flaky about doing this myself. The guitar's now re-strung and sounds as good as ever. Cheers.
1:26 Thank you so much, that tension slack part is very important if you haven't changed strings before, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I was doing wrong as I wasn't getting any windings around the post!. As usual, the internet is filled with allot of people talking shit but never really saying anything that matters, Thanks again.
Best instructional video. I'm no pro but have had a guitar for a few years. Whenever I need to change strings I come back here to make sure I do it right. I don't play much but my strings last me around a year.
Crazy 14 year old video still teaching me things. I was taught by a buddy in highschool how to string my guitar and have been doing it that way ( the wrong way) since. Lately I have been having a issue with my strings not lasting as long as they should and a guy at my local guitar center told me that it could be the way im stringing my guitar. So I found this video and so far these are the longest lasting strings that I have had. So I needed to spent the time to come back and thank this video. Helped out a ton
never stringed a guitar before it helped, thanks
Seriously, thank you for the simple instructions without putting a whole bunch of info we didn’t need. Much appreciated!
Great video - it’s not that I haven’t changed guitar strings countless times before, but having locking tuners most of my playing career has made things easy. Now that I finally got around to changing the strings on my acoustic with non-locking tuners, I had to turn to the internet for guidance. This was a big help - thank you!
tfw for dummies' restringing guide is better than fender's one
I ruined a set of strings today learning how to do this lol
me too man :/
Me too
chris graz If it's your first time. It's normal to do that.
Ayrsawft is it normal that if i have changed strings two or three times i ruin some several times?
juan carlos esparza rivera Go into a shop and get them to do it. Try and learn from them.
Very clear no unrequired clap trap,his guitar, bridge saddle adjustments and guitar action video is also highly recommend for the dummies amongst us.
thank you so much! the technique of wrapping the end of the string around the tuning machine is perfect
I have always done it the way shown in this video, but I have recently seen people suggesting a better way would be to make a loop to secure the string to itself around the post. It's supposed to keep it more secure, and make it less likely to come out of tune
If you stop at 0:25 you figured out how to be a djent guitarist.
What?
Alex R. What?
TDG GAMING uhhhhh..... how does that have anything to do with djent? He's taking the string off of the peg...
+Alex R. do you even know what a djent is
+TDG GAMING Lol
thank you so much, this was very helpful since i've never done this before and there was no un-needed intro
You make it look so easy. Thank you for a perfect lesson.
I tried this and ended up burning my house down.
David Connelly shouldn’t have kept the casserole in the oven.
It’s cuz the guitar was fire 🔥
Damn man....you too? I tried a second time and ended up driving my car off a cliff, this string changing business is tricky!
Thank you so much! My friend showed me this. Now I dont have to go to the guitar center every time just to get it restrung!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I was so done with going to my local guitar center and spending 50 dollars to getting it restrung AND having to wait 4-5 days for them to finish
I only needed to restring my high E and it’s not the prettiest where the knob is but it gets the sound I want and need so works for me😂
THANK YOU!
Thank you you were the best lesson I could find.No one described how to put the string on like you.You had the best video
Christ, I've watched about every video on changing strings and still can barely string my guitar, i have zero clue why i struggle with it so much.
Something that may be worth looking into is a set of locking tuners. Just stick the string in, and screw the knob tight and you're done. Ive actually forgotten how to string standards at this point, since i've become so spoiled.
Pray to Christ to help you before you attempt stringing it😁
Do be so hard on yourself and ask somebody to do it for you
@Arthur Morgan, Formerly 4th Chairman what video did you watch?
@Arthur Morgan, Formerly 4th Chairman alright still thanks
Don't pull out the old string like he does or you might scratch the finish on your guitar. Do it carefully!
secallen um those are just battle scars
Sekmad we got what we call a 'guitarist who's never actually played anywhere other than his living room'
T.T.G Krydder thats me
Sekmad battle scars just add personality
Ah yes, I’m sure that all your guitars look absolutely perfect never having left their case shoved in a humidity controlled glass container.
good tutorial /well done and well illustrated as well.THANK YOU for posting!
Been watching this as reference for years. Love it. Thank you!
Published in 2009 and I’m watching in 2019
2020
I don't know if anybody else mentioned it, but a general rule of thumb for how much slack you would need is you would measure to the next tuning peg. that should be enough to make enough revolutions around the head of the peg that you're running the string through to not have too much wrapped around the peg (which looks hideous 🤣) or too little to keep it tightly wound.
13 years later, still a great video.
thanks for posting this video. i recently broke my high E string and was able to get it nice and tight with about 3 and a half winds around the post after watching how you guide each wrap downwards with your finger. now i can go back to jamming out :)
This was SO easy to follow. Very helpful, thank you! 🙌🙌🙌
Really helped.
That's ace! Totally clear & understandable. And easy, as it turns out! Thanks
I haven't strung up a guitar in years and used this video to re-learn it. I found I was using way too may wraps. A person commented that a good way to measure how much string is to use the distance to the next tuner. That gave me almost exactly 3 wraps on each string. Thanks for the video. What would we do without these teachers?
dammit i didn't have one of those wire cutters so i just grabbed any scrissors i could find around the house. now all the scissors we have a visible chip in their blades lol. and that tiny first string is still intact. guitar strings are surprisingly tough!
The high E string?
Nickel is a tough ass metal.
Lol
i used pliers lmao
That tiny first string is called the high e string.
Only issue I have is which way to wind the string, I think you go above the original positioning then every one after that goes under the original positioning and he even says that, but in the video continues winding above. Any help?
That is the way I was taught to do it over fifty years ago and it does help to prevent slippage if you get that one overlapped wrap.
Great video! Keeps it simple yet complete. And doesn't have to rely on one those tuning crank things which I don't have. Other videos I watched were not helpful.
Perfect video this guy waists no time and is very clear with instructions thank you so much
now you have a friend in the diamond company
+asha lloyd Business*
Shane company right? lol
I miss the credit man...... Somthin' Somthin' from the diamond center.
Thank you. I knew he sounded like someone I've heard before! The Shane Co. Is this a national thing or just the Denver area?
@@mindless__impulses9672 hHAHAHAHAHA best comment ive seen in a while.
now you have a friend in the diamond business. lol
read this in his voice. sounds the exact same
Thank you I have played for years but for some reason really never got a knack for restringing my axe. Have a great one Dude. :)
I don't have a guitar, I'm planning on getting one and i want to say, this guy is a legend! i understand everything easily even though i don't have it!
What does he mean by "you want each new wind to wind downward toward the head stack rather than upwards"? 2:04
He means that you don't want to wind the "tuning machine" towards the body of the guitar. Wind it the other way, just the way that he doing. If you look carefully at his hand, you'll see which way he's turning it.
He actually means each following string winds should be underneath each other I think
From the hole in the post, each wind should be below the next so that you don't have string above the hole. Start at the hole and make each wind a little closer to the headstock.
The best explanation is always turn the strings away from you.
Maybe a good tip for beginners aswel is that you'll have to do it one by one! If you just cut through your strings or loosen all of them up too fast the pressure change will be high and not good for your guitar.
Thank you so much for this awesome video. crystal clear, and I re-stringed my electric guitar for the first time :)
Had I watched this before trying, I'd have four more strings.
purplecow666 ha
Me 6
You know...this is the best tutorial i could ever find..really good tutorial man..
I see on some videos that the individual wound the tuning heads in a clockwise manner and some do it counter-clockwise. Does it matter which direction this is done or not?
you know how youtube started putting "recommended for you" videos on the right side? "how to string an electric guitar for dummies" - "recommended for you"
I got pwned by youtube
so super easy!!! I was having problems with one of the strings...and the end bit of this with stretching the string of the tutorial helped me a lot! thanks for this! :-) xx
thanks man! i was concerned with the length of the video but you actually got straight to the point without unnecessary talk. i like that XD
Instructions not clear enough, I set my community pool on fire. It's just a big hot tub now.
What you are calling the 'bridge' is not the bridge, it's the 'stop-tailpiece; it's job is to anchor the strings. The 'bridge' supports the the string-saddles, and it's the item closest to the Pickup!
8233Eire This is somewhat true, for the style of guitar he happens to be demonstrating on. Other brands have all of the parts you mentioned incorporated into one unit.
Shut up
BIGDICKBOOTYEATER Umad?
You, sir, are the only guy who has managed to teach me how to put on a string!
Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing!
I don't really like changing my guitar strings
You really should
Arthur Morgan, Formerly 4th Chairman Change his strings 😕
why didn't I just watch the 4 minute video before destroying my only strings
It really does suck just how quickly you can absolutely destroy these strings
I've never restrung my Electric guitar I've always taken it and had someone else who knows how to do it put new strings onto my guitar this is very helpful
Thanks for the help. Trying to learn how to play myself. Needed to know this. Thanks guy.
Okay, still out of my league
my guitar is so old that to get the strings out, you have to dismantle it untill it looks like car parts.
Finn Beatty what kind of guitar is it?
+Jeff clarke it's a huffy
He says it should be wrapped around two to three times, so I kept tightening, and snap! Just broke my replacement string. Not sure if it was something I did wrong, but viewers beware.
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I.....feel.........sorry....for you, DUMMY.
You didn't have enough slack in the string before you began tightening.
Best restring tutorial I have seen....thank you!
Excellent video, for beginners who just want it explained in a simple fashion!
AGH thank god new strings only cost $5
$10 at a local store.
He doesn't explain that you gotta leave a lot of slack when you first start threading it round the peg because I think I just ruined mine by only rapping around once :/
Yes he did!
Well i didnt get that impression initially. anyway that was months ago
You sir, are a mouth breather
You mean you weren't listening. And what does it matter that it was months ago. It still happened. It's three years ago now. I hope you still think about this moment. The moment you didn't fucking listen.
Wow this guys voice is just so amazing
Instructions made pretty simple. Thanks a lot. I'm fairly new to guitar.
Do not turn the "B" string too many times. The string will break and you will have to get more strings. I am speaking from experience
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Feisal Merali Give it a little bit more slack next time.
Or the e trust
Shit..intructions not clear. Ended up outside in a unicorn costume chasing rabits around.
Thank you brother great video, simply & straight to the point. really appreciate it.
Best video for re stringing a guitar. You saved me some cash. Thank you
Goddamn it but thats a Gibson not a Fender!
Nope. Not even a Gibson. That's called an LTD guitar.
Greg Krist Sure looked like one, but that isn't my problem, more that I have a Fender which renders this tutorial useless.
Bung The Booce Not really, still the same process it just that the key you wrap the string around is in a different spot.www
Bill cronel I really need to know how to change my strings. I've been asking my uncle for months on end each time they break.
Bung The Booce There's TONS of videos on how to change strings for Fenders, its the same process just few changes because the design and body isnt the same.
Instruction not clear. I broke my G string.
then you tightend to hard he os very clear
i broke ur G string ;P ...
+Ischyros Ford ill stop...
+Angry Princess Haha, I was literally just about to make that same joke.
Yo dont know if you will see this but thank you so much I watched many other videos and one from a good brand and I broke a string withing 60 seconds of this video I changed 2 strings thank you so much man this was really helpful
Grear tutorial, very well made, well spoken and understandable, its what i just needed!
I broke my strings 🤡
Broke a string. Thanks
NOOTH COMEDY not his fault. You broke the string, not him.
Great, simple, right to the point with a few do's and don'ts
yesterday i bought a new set of strings. then i eagerly replaced my old strings with the new one. but i was ignorant and thought i could do this with my own. so the 6th string snapped and i bought another one today. now i'm watching this very helpful video. I learned my lesson!
"Tuning machine"
i would just like to say in my own opinion: you shouldnt add "dummies" to the name. i know its giving a meaning as in for people who dont understand but its still not right. Nobody is dumb and nobody is smart, stop labeling people as for instence if someone called you stupid you would be a little upset but if someone called you smart you would be proud. Is smart the #1 label you wanna go by? I think not. As I should say again, This is MY OWN opinion.
its just a slogan that was used to make how to's really marketable, which as you can see succeeded in them gaining those views, i kno it sux tho, thts business
Here's the thing Bear, The term "for dummies" is associated with those yellow books. It's been around for so long, that using it lets people know exactly what kind of video they are gonna find. Even beginner videos might assume you know the basic things. "For dummies" means it is the most basic, beginner video possible. I'm not sure why you would come here just to find something that offends you.
GiovannaxBear "Nobody is dumb and nobody is smart" may well be the dumbest thing I've ever read.
You should read a book called "How to not be a profesional victim for dummies"
Did it. Very nervous as it seems rather delicate. Thanks for the video.
Great vid! Much thanks!
Side note(no pun intended): A simple video like this goes a long way, even 14 years later.