Acoustic Guitar String Change w/ Steve Brand

[slipshaft]

Song is called "Brother" by Alice In Chains....great video and I review it every time before I string a guitar.

[OoZeROEpiCBruTaloO]

nas li tir! Ze3ma ana na3raflha xDD! Thanks a bunch.

[Gino14131]

YOU CAN CHANGE STRINGS?! ALL THIS TIME I'VE JUST BEEN BUYING NEW GUITARS!

[maggottron333]

@Gino14131 Hahahahaha!

[madman2be]

first time changing strings and this helped so much! thank you very much

[fleeper4]

anyone know how to get nylon strings on an acoustic guitar like this ? ;o

really need help for this one and It's possible I've seen it but I need someone to tell me how

please replay

[ovrdrvn]

@fleeper4 You can purchase "ball-end nylon" string sets like D'Addario's "Folk Nylon" strings.

[fleeper4]

@ovrdrvn THANKS DUUUDEE ^^ THANK YOU VERY MUCH ^^

[KurtSmurf]

i hv the exact same guitar!!! great sound! love it n had it for 10 yrs

[breelovespiano]

Finally! Someone who made this simple! Thanks so much :)

[lumyingluo]

nice music and nice tutorial :)

[leericemusic]

After watching quite a few video's it was yours that made this easy. Thanks loads :-)

[zhulia]

thanks!

[chetplayerwhoknows]

the video work is terrible, but the information is great. Who cares about a case with silly picks? No video yet shows the plain strings cleanly, which are put on totally differently...not just 'reversed'......

[ElyonwyHatto]

What if the pin don stick in ? help pls

[bluebill0124]

Hi Steve

[kylekage13]

that first minute of information is what ive been needing to know for years, haha. thanks

[zT3HViDS]

Same guitar mine is blue tho :D

[againstfabrication]

thanks

[Voyevoda911]

This was a really crappy instructional video.

[Wrestlingthemeremix]

Can i buy and Right handed Acoustic and take all of the strings and put them on again so its an left handed?

[LeoPlaysTheGuitar]

@Wrestlingthemeremix

not really cause the size of the little slits in the nut are different due to the string size, so if you do decide to flip all the strings you should also flip the nut.. also, the pick guard will be on the wrong side but that's just cool

[ciscos1001]

a fast drying epoxy glue will hold those pegs in, five minute epoxy works best!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RobertAaronPerry]

Sweet Camera Tricks!

[eatthinkblink]

the camera man sucks balls

[kaitlynmarie9910]

how do you get the pin out? mine wont come out..

[Nevanator7]

@kaitlynmarie9910 you gotta have strong teeth, do you have braces?

[hotpocketsable]

@kaitlynmarie9910 Push the string you want to remove DOWN into the saddle. This will free the ball end from the side of the pin. Also us the little notch in a string winder to leverage pins that won't come out...But only AFTER the above steps

[supergreatawsomedude]

Sounds more like a lower tuning,than being a cheap guitar.Art & Lutherie is a very nice brand.

[MrCoolbeans1990]

@supergreatawsomedude ah! True, my apologises for bad-mouthing a good brand of guitar!

[MrCoolbeans1990]

Great but a shame as the guitar sounded crappy a cheap!

[sbove]

Thanks. Clear ad concise.

[KittyJaney]

MWAH<3

[LainnieASL]

u practically saved my life!!!!

[Str8Sulfer]

Thanks alot!!!!

[henrylei123]

Very helpful, thank you! However, the video gets blurred when the camera was focusing in. I would recommend a re-make of the video with a better camera :)

[bogdanrybak]

this is the easiest and nicest looking stringing technique out there!

[KoRnKid2011]

Alice In CHains!!!!!!

[ditchy2kz]

Thanks man, simple, easy to follow instructions!

[BolFelix]

are you in the steve music store in this video?

[vatmcgrath]

The camera person was VERY artistic! However, this is an instructional video, so I would have liked to see the camera focused on the subject at hand. Glad to know though, that they have good pot down there.

[lpbsbfan]

this video is real good..as a newbie it helped me a lot!!

[BigCowz]

Wouldnt it be a better way to just bend the string end with the ball on so its out of the way of the pin...

[habagrachel]

Thank you for the great video! It helped me a lot. By the way, what kind of guitar is this?

[fixxxer602]

wow great video..thanks for taking the time to record and upload such informative material

[laurieg66]

Thanks, no more flying pins!

[seekah1]

@laurieg66 LOL.

[mitsubishi04]

Very helpful cheers mate

[thisonedude678]

Thanks man, you explained things simple and fast!

[THX1138hxc]

AIC in the background! caught my attention at the solo(:

[Dysv23]

Thank you sooo much! You dont know how helpful this was!!!

[GeoWillworkforblood]

I have the same acoustic guitar :P

[TheMohaw]

i just got new acoustic guitar, the strings from 12 to 19 are little popped up? is there anything to fix this?

please let me know

[WESDOGG1word2gs]

much too shaky

[Style386]

it's taking the strings out that's difficult. I had to take my leatherman and hammer the pins out from the inside of the guitar.

[GhostOfJunglePast]

It's best to leave the strings in the tuning nut first, and when it's loose enough, take out the pin and then try and pull the string out. Should work.

[mikedanton]

That's a very dumb thing to do.

[Style386]

it's the only way it comes out. Plus my guitar is a piece of shit i couldn't care less i might burn it at a show if i get high enough.

[lifelonggaybot]

@Style386

hahahahaah! you idiot

[TheHellerCrystal]

Thank You So MUCH!!

:)

Beatrice Said Thank You.

[Smmiley12]

the 5 & 6 keep leaning on each other why is that and how to tune ur guitar by ear

[ed1731]

THANKS!! camera guy moved too much tho

[joshuak901]

This really helped me learn how to treat my arty, thanks Steve!

[sharbohemia]

btw: we were there at Steve's Music May '09... Toronto rocks!

[sharbohemia]

Great vid. I just learned to change my strings. Thanks to Paul & Don Don, too!

[Greenrock5551]

MAN!! When i put the 1st string, it just broke !!! Plz help me!!!!!!!

[DSLRmusic]

Thanks for uploading this video, I was stuck in how to put the string on the "guitar head", and in the music store I use to go explained how to do it a lot of times, but I didn't understand them, and this video helps me a lot.

Thanks, Steve!

[spamspaz]

Oh my god... I bought a new A string today at that exact store, Steve's Music in Toronto, Ontario, Canada!

[survogis]

Great background music!

[SxXExecutionerXx]

@survogis its alice in chains my man

[Faya88]

@survogis Alice, yeah!

[me2gap]

gOdin... typing  argh...

[me2gap]

talking all the stings off at once IS NOT BAD like most think. It makes no difference.

That is a Gidin built ART&Lutherie... nice guitar.

good video bu the music is very distracting.

[NcDavy]

it is bad because the neck is adjusted the the strings tension. wood bends

[mustardeer]

turn down that effin music

[DrChikin]

I've tried a couple different methods of restringing, and I found this method to be the quickest and easiest. Thanks for the vid :)

[kmax1940]

THANK YOU! I have been playing 2 years... and putting the strings on has always been a pain! The way you put it on the post has helped me a LOT! Thanks.

[subliminalcage]

good vid but why did u take all the strings off?

for any beginners out there DO NOT take all the strings off cos your neck will bend and that will cause fret buzz and stuff and that will make you SAD. peace.

[MINIAK88]

What am I doing wrong, when I move the pin the string also keep moving :/

[tommygunnz92]

beautiful! thanks a lot d00d

[damian12zhr]

very good register string

STEVE thanks!!!!

[razvanand10]

how is called the song from the background?

[Pedro010180]

"Brother", Alice in Chains, SAP Album. If you like it, listen to the unplugged version too.

[soloboy1991]

i likeed the video but another guy don remember who.. told that its better to wind a lot of the string,not to cut it.. cuz if you do that it will get out of tune more quickly..

[AdamskiFTW]

Love AIC in the background :D

[voodoo194]

very nice video but DON'T remove all strings at the same time its not good for your guitar

[jhempel24]

actually it doesn't really hurt it at all. when the manufacturers ship them the remove all the slack which is essentially the same thing. I do it all the time to clean the guitar and have had no problem ever

[CharlesTheKid]

thanks man!!!!! i did it:)))))

[CrimsonSora]

Woohoo! I did it. :) Thanks for the helpful vid!

[Sporic15423]

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!! you are so much better at explaining then that stupid justin secrombe or whatever his stupid name is and in littler time too THANK YOU!!!!

[youngbuck3628]

awesome chains song

[siouxbon]

who the heck did this video? Every time you need it to be clear, it goes out of focus....

[oker1565]

this video has helped me wayyy too many times! thanks dude!!!

[ancalime3]

awesome video, thank you so much for the help!

[emorocker1230]

what exactly did you use to cut the excess parts of the string at 3:51 ?

[headlesssoldier]

Does anyone know what this is: TWICE in the last 6 months, I've put a brand new g string on that is almost a half step flat at on octive. Its so bizarre. Both sets were Elixir medium guage, and I believe, G strings. It would be in tune open, about semi tone flat at the first octave, and then the outer limits of flatness any higher. Both were remedied by taking another g string from another new set. So weird. I have a Taylor 510ce that has excellent intonation. Anyone else run across this???

[Azunaii]

"Both sets were Elixir medium guage"

That's where you went wrong :P I've heard alot of bad stories about Elixirs, and the g-string snapping is one of them. Get some martins/daddario's =) Elixirs are very pricey as well and in my experience, they last alot shorter than the other 2 brands.

[butterhoney12]

ALICE IN CHAINS IN THE BEGINNING! OMG!

[johnrafferty]

Great advice on stringing technique! The video technique needs work, however. You need to STOP, or at least slow down, and let the camera FOCUS on each step, particularly those tuning pegs.

[Zp33rz]

Pause button?

[codyr222]

Thanks a lot Steve

[cjsaysnooo]

fucking camera kept moving. fck.

anyways GREAT VIDEO!! 5/5

[cjsaysnooo]

no shit. still yet, it kept moving.

[JoeMyspace13]

This is the best stringing method i have ever used!

[pobhockle]

This proberbly explains why my acoustic tuning knobs have cracked and come off the pegs..I'm missing 4 now.

Hopefuly, somewhere will sell me just the ends and not the whole machinehead?

[KurtCobain213]

Is it ok if i restring my lespaul using this method?Thanks for the vid-it's really helpful

[20000564]

yeah man, any guitar with the 3 by 3 headstock works. i haven't tried on 6 in row kind.

[leonardchng]

6 in a row works too...it's find on my strat =)

[20000564]

you are a good man. i kept stringing the wrong way and getting so frustrated. Steve is a life-saver

[Aoshikakashi]

Ah, Steve...without you, I would probably still be paying $40 every time a string popped. You are truly the man!

[dallarian]

thank you Steve..I've been playing guitar about 10 years by myself..nobody has never shown me how to change them..and it has always been so torturing and so long for me to do it..I ve just tried it and it took me not not even 6 min..Enjoy!

[Norks74]

absolutely my sentiments too. thanks for the teaching big man! excellent tutorial on a very simple technique...even with the eye torturing cam focus issues! ;-)

[rogervchang]

awesome

[jgenov27]

steve is cute!

[asdfasdsfsa]

that camera man is a DORK... the most important scenes are not on cam .. haha

[ouijaouija]

i kinda like this stringing method compared to other ones I have seen

[kelymin]

now i know!!!! I didn't lock the string on the tuners damn it!

[kevinAIC33]

"I know that Pain, and I won't run away like I use to do" bad ass lesson Alice In Chains forever "Brother"

[beautyfulbrowneyez]

thanks..i just finished stringing my guitar

[Seattlesound594]

great song

[sexynewb11]

thx a lot for tutoring..this helped me out a lot xD

[kensana24]

really helpful, i watch this every time i change a string, better than paying the local guitar shop twenty bucks to do it OVERNIGHT when this takes like 5-6 minutes with this video

[knightsofavalon]

anyone ask for chubby chicken stips? (fingers)

[piecepan]

got some alice in chains in the background.. kickass

[lassebunk]

Thanks for the tutorial - helped me on my first guitar strings change. :-)

[granbergexperiment09]

you know when you put the string on...extra string left and you usually cut it...but I've seen guitars that have the extra string on it still but its curly and I was wondering if anyone knew how to do that

[bikeforfree]

you know how mom curls ribbon with scissors?

[googlydorken]

Obese fingers ruin every tutorial.

[missgriffin77]

What is wrong with you?

[anibalnikov47]

yeaa what in the fuck is wrong whit u , i dont know about u , but i understood everything on this video eveN if the GUy is however it is

[anibalnikov47]

We Love your woRK sTvee !!

Sulte You from El Salvador :D

-Hannibal

[stardollfan1]

how do u string an acoustic guitar when u wanna play a song

[slappymcdoogle]

I'd be a bit wary because it looks to me like the saddle is in backwards?!

[ovrdrvn]

It's a fully compensated saddle...that's why it appears that the saddle's 'angle' seems reversed on the bass side. It is installed the correctly. Thanks for watching!

[slappymcdoogle]

Didn't even think about the full comp. saddle, sorry, my bad. I also completely agree w/ you re: taking all of the strings off. How else do you refret or change saddle/nut, or do any maintainence on the guitar.

[Helolelo]

How the hell did you get the ball end to go after the pin?

[reynolds101]

This is an improper way of stringing an acoustic. The tuning part and the pin part is correct, but the whole fact that you have all the strings off at once is not a good idea. Removing all the tension at once can bend the neck and make you go to more trouble. Other than that, its ok. 4/5

[ovrdrvn]

You are so wrong! This is just such an 'old wives' tale... Were there strings on the guitar from the very second that it was first built? No....and it survived that 'trauma' just fine, right? There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking all of the strings off a guitar...it sure would make doing a re-fret rather difficult if the strings HAD to stay on the guitar, eh? Think about it...

[reynolds101]

Thats not the point. Once you put the strings on and have them on for a while, your putting tension on the neck. And the time the strings are on is how much the strings pull on the neck. When you take them off all at once, your releasing all the pressure on the wood fibers and causes it to relax. When you put the new strings on you're pulling once again on the neck. If this is repeated for a while (assuming the person has their guitar for a long time), the neck bows and bends. Its not some myth.

[jaejunie]

no actually it doesnt really matter unless you're using an electric with floating bridge

[reynolds101]

That and most dreadnought acoustics. The wood on dreadnoughts are fragile along with the bodies because of the size. My uncle use to build guitars on the side when he worked for a local wood manufacturing company, and we use to talk about guitars all the time, I know.

[ovrdrvn]

If that's the case, would you explain why it is that all guitars equipped with a Floyd Rose trem (which can release all of the tension in an instant or double it just as quickly) don't automatically have issues with necks warping or twisting. I've owned some of my own guitars for more than 20 years and I've always treated them in this way...with no neck issues whatsoever. It IS a myth.

[CheorkeeXP]

my beginner's guitar book said its true :(

but i take your word for it.

[Zp33rz]

Truss rod

[BigCanOfBeans]

@ovrdrvn Depends on the sort of guitar and quality I guess...

[XYGTHOPH3]

Great info man, that was wicked. Hey did I detect an Aussie accent there dude? Sounds like you're from around Oz! Just one comment, whoever took the video needs a big headslap. Great info, let down by shocking cinematography. Thanks for the info.

Keep the dream alive...

Jav - Living the dream!

[FlareDragon2004]

When I last changed my strings, I noticed the bridge was "dented" in from the last strings. Does that mean I changed my strings wrong?

I can't seem to get the ball to stay put after its in the bridge.

[fadondk]

lol..thanks this helped.!

btw ur accent sounded australian, then i realised u were canadian.. :)

anyway thanks agen!

[HBomb92]

oh no ...Im stuck on the 3rd string, which way do I wrap the string around the tuning post?

[HBomb92]

never mine Im a retard...

[robotcheese]

Fantastic. Thanks so much! This was absolutely perfect, you have completely relieved my headache.

[mgladden2]

hmm. i've been stringing my own guitars for 15 years and just learned a few tips from this. avoiding too many wraps and the two under one over wrap on the 1st and 2nd strings look like great ideas.

[badgeneration2007]

hey fuck you! Hes just trying to help your fucking ass you fucking prick! stop your bitching! you just suck at changing strings. faggot asshole!

[Kelseyproductions]

your an asssshole brand illl fuckin kill you you made me break my elixerstrings you fuckin dick

[anibalnikov47]

hahahaha LOL he doesn't have the fult man you have it ;)

[blueterrior]

lmao your an asshole, please go kill yourself

[geddsy123]

THIS IS REALLY CONFUSING iv just seen three different ways to wind a string!

[ImadouchebagNIlikeit]

It's much easier than you think. I had only been playing for 2 months when I was 14(12 years ago, wow) and I learned how to change my strings in about 5 quick minutes. So, it's really not that hard all you beginners..You just might think it is.

[telesko]

that was a little confusing for me...for a more basic explanation check out justin guitar . com right here on youtube

[tin0fcan]

well actually art and lutherie and norman along with seagull and lot's of other companies are branch companies of Godin.

[LiveMusicInIreland]

Thank you very much.

[zacharyetzerclerge]

i have one qustion im a beggner so how can i like tell the defrence bewteen the strings when im changing them?

[cicadaskater2113]

buy d'addario strings the ball end is color coded so it easy to tell which is which.

[ImadouchebagNIlikeit]

the thickness of each string and also when they come in the package they will be put in separated in a little marked envelope telling you what guage each string is. and on the back of the box the strings came in, there will be a diagram telling you each guage of each string. For example, on a package of Elixir light guitar strings it goes as such..E(high e, bottom string)-.012, B-.016, G-.024, D-.032, A-.042, E(low e)-.053. The thicker the guage, the thicker the string of course.

[FlareDragon2004]

Sweet Guitar, I have the same brand diff type :D Godin makes awesome acoustics :D

And er...

I kinda didn't do the thing with the bridge pin... I didnt know... the strings are already cut. When i put them in, I just pushed down the pin when it popped up, will I still be ok?

[peppeollarn]

what kind of guitar is it ? It looks pretty much exactly like my Norman.

[FlareDragon2004]

Its an Art&Lutherie

You can see the name at the top at around 1:26~

[peppeollarn]

ok =) it looks very nice i have to say.

[knocknashane]

Should you not do one string at a time?, if all the strings are off then there's no tension on the neck which could cause warping

[ovrdrvn]

I agree that a guitar is designed to have string tension on it...but...to have the string tension off for a short while does absolutely zero harm whatsoever. How do you think that a refret or other service work can be done?

[poennem]

dude steve ows me a high e string!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ovrdrvn]

Why...what did YOU do wrong?!  ;P

[garyfalzone]

Quick question: How hard do you have to push the peg into the guitar? I have always wondered about this. I am assuming you shouldn't push very hard on it. Correct?

[ovrdrvn]

If the pins fit correctly you should only need very slight finger tip pressure.

[katgarcia]

You helped a good lot! Thank you!

[MatiProductions]

thanks alot! very helpful!!