How To Change Guitar Strings & Tune Your Electric Guitar

​Learn how to change guitar strings, WHY and WHEN you should change strings and get pro tips from Gibson’s Master Luthier, Jim DeCola.

This is not your average guitar maintenance video. Jim has provided a TONNE of pro tips for you so you can make sure your guitar is sounding the best it can.

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In this episode of “Gibson’s Guide to Guitar Setup and Maintenance,” viewers learn how to change their electric guitar strings like a professional. Jim shows three different styles of how to tie off the strings at the headstock for guitars with standard tuning machines, as well as how to change strings on guitars with locking tuning machines. Although this video is on how to change guitar strings on a Les Paul, this method of restringing an electric guitar can apply to any guitar with a headstock similar. Whether you are a beginner learning to change your guitar strings for the first time, or a seasoned professional, Jim will give you pro tips that will make the process simple, more efficient, and provide your electric guitar with better tuning stability.

In this brand new how-to series for Gibson TV, “Gibson’s Guide to Guitar Setup and Maintenance,” gives viewers insight on how to properly care for and maintain the playability of their guitar. Hosted by Gibson’s Master Luthier, Jim DeCola, this series provides in-depth explanations on topics ranging from changing strings, cleaning and conditioning your fingerboard, adjusting your neck, lowering and raising string action, adjusting pickup height, adjusting intonation, and a whole lot more.

Jim provides step-by-step instructions, the tools needed, and pro tips along the way, as well as simple hacks for times when you might find yourself at the gig without all of the required tools. This series is intended to help you acquire the basic setup and maintenance skills needed to keep your guitars playing and sounding their best, as well as saving you hundreds of dollars a year by not having to bring your guitar to a professional guitar tech.

0:00 When & why You Should Change Guitar Strings
1:52 Tips for changing guitar strings
3:14 String tension & removing old strings
5:25 String the Tailpiece
6:32 String the Headstock & Z-bend
10:21 How to restring locking tuners
11:56 Stretching Strings & Tuning

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