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How to Change Strings on an Electric Guitar

Things You'll Need

Guitar

Strings (GHS Boomers 10g or Ernie Ball Regular Slinky, in my opinion)

Somthing to cut the strings

Something to clean the guitar with.

Notice if you have a floating bridge, jam it with something. To do this, bend the bridge up (like you're doing a dive on the guitar) and put something between the guitar body and bridge. Your tremolo bar will work for this, but a ruler is best.

Loosen the strings by down-tuning. Once they're loose enough to touch the fret board, cut or pull the strings out of the pegs.

Go on a floating bridge and pull the strings out of the back of the bridge. On a regular bridge (like a Fender Strat or any other string-through guitar) just pull the strings out of the back of the guitar's body. If you have a wrap-around bridge, you will be able to pull them out of the underside of the bridge.

Replace the strings. Just slide them in where you removed them.

Put the strings through the pegs on the head of the guitar. Here's the best way to do it: Push the strings in until they're about as loose as I described in step 2. Now, bend the string in the OPPOSITE direction you'll be turning the pegs for higher tuning.

Twist the pegs until the string is on correctly.As the string comes around push the front under the string to have it lock. Try putting some tension on the string (by pulling it up) at about the 12th fret. Pull it up firmly, but don't snap the string. This keeps the string wound tight around the peg, not just wound loosely around, which may not work at all.

Remember that Once all the strings are on, tune them! Do this by removing whatever was holding up your bridge (if you had a floating bridge, that is) and slowly let the bridge down. Not extremely slowly, just move it down so the strings don't snap. To tune, you just pluck a string and tune it like you would before playing. Make sure you're not tuned too low or too high! Do this by playing some chords or something, and see if it sounds right. Now just tune all 6 strings, and you're done.

Make sure your guitar is working properly, crank up your amplifier and play a power chord in pride. You've just changed your strings.

Tips Replacing the strings one by one will take a bit longer, but it's easier on the neck. It's under constant pressure from the strings, and removing all that pressure in one go could damage it.

You'll know if you're going to break a string. Use your brain and take it easy on the pressure you apply to the strings when tuning, but don't be a sissy and not wind up your strings tight enough.

When tuning high e, it may seem scary, but just do it. Trust me, the string WILL be able to hold its tune, even if you over-tune some. It will not break that easily. Again, though, don't be an idiot and tune it like 6 steps above what it should be, because that WILL break the string.

When the strings are off of your guitar, that's the perfect time to clean your beast. Just wipe it down, if anything, and get the dust away from the pickups. That's a very hard place to clean with strings on the guitar.

Notice how your guitar's hardware responds to new strings. Some guitars require extra time for the strings to "stretch", i.e., the strings will slip one or more times from around the machine heads and require re-tuning before they settle into a state where the pitch remains more or less constant.

Warning If you have a floating bridge it is best to change one string at a time to prevent you bridge from getting out of alignment. Tune each string to concert pitch as you replace them.

If you think a string is going to break, don't just sit there and let it hit you. Get out of the way, because those little strings can hurt if they hit you right, and then you'll have a nice wide gash on your arm, and all your friends will make fun of you.

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