Stretching Guitar Strings After Restringing

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Bryan Billhimer and on behalf of Expert Village, today I'm going to show you how to re-string and tune a guitar. Okay, so now that we've tuned our guitar, either by ear or with our electric tuner, it's in tune right now, but with new strings, you're going to want to stretch them out because they're going to stretch out on their own. So the way you do that, set the guitar on your lap. You can put your finger on, around the middle of the neck, fifth fret or seventh fret, somewhere around there. Put your finger on that, on that fret, and push down and then pull up on the string here. And that will stretch it out a little bit. And you want to do that with each string. So go down, fifth fret, each string, just tug up not too hard. You don't want to break the string, but put some tension on it. Okay, so do that on the fifth fret and then I like to go down here and do it on the twelfth fret as well. Just give it a couple tugs. Now you can see when I play a chord, it's probably going to be out of tune. You hear how awful that sounds? So now you're going to want to re-tune it. So go back to the previous step, re-tune the guitar with your guitar tuner."