How to Change Your Guitar Strings
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- 5 Intro to Alternate Picking
- 6 Guitar Timing Study
- 7 Pick Hand Exercise
- 8 How to Change Your Guitar Strings — you are here
- 9 Be An Educated Guitar Buyer Up next
- 10 Plectrology– The Study of Flatpicks!
- 11 All About Capos
Changing guitar strings is a good skill to master. There's nothing to be afraid of, even when mistakes are made!
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Tom Vasquez ·
Third time coming back to this lesson over two years. It's amazing what shows up when you're ready for it.
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Sharon Kile ·
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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Sharon Kile ·
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Ben Clark Instructor ·
Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.
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Gary Feldman ·
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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flatpick_dad ·
Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.
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Lou Ann Prater ·
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.