How to String a Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Athena Reich and I'm an actress, singer/songwriter and performing arts coach here in New York City. In this clip I'm going to talk about how to string a guitar. First of all, make sure you've got the correct string. If you don't know what they are, the saying goes like this, Eddie Ate Dynamite. Good Bye Eddie. So Eddie E,A,D, Good, G, Bye B, Eddie. Alright, those are the strings. So I got myself a D string and there's a lot of different ways that you can start this but my guitar to guild and start is like this I stick that in, I put the peg in, alright, and I bring it all the way up over here, through the slit for the D string, okay. Then I'm going to put it in the hole over here at the peg. Where's our hole? Right there. You got to stick it in, stringing a guitar is not easy. It's a little bit of finger acrobatics. And actually what I like to do is start it off like that. I like to twist it around a couple times so because that, I can only get it around once. This one's short. Alright, and I make sure, double check that goes to the line, and then basically, you wind it. This is what takes so long. So we're going to sit here and wind it until it gets tight. So here I'm finishing up winding the string. This is the part that is annoying and takes a long time. And it's got to be really, got to make sure my peg is in there. And you're going to wind it up, wind it up, wind it up, until it sounds like a D. Right now no way is that a D. See how the more I wind it, the higher it tunes. I just get it until it's a good D note. This has been Athena Reich on how to string a guitar."