Why should we care about stringing our guitars properly you may ask. The reason is simple. It will make your sound better because if our guitar is properly strung, you will get a longer natural sustain. No effects pedal can reproduce this clean, natural sustain. Of course after we have this sustain we can play with it all we want with our effects pedals.
Many guitarist’s make the same mistake when stringing their guitars, they don’t wind enough of the string onto the tuning peg or they wind far too much causing a spaghetti junction scenario on the Tuning Peg.
Why would this seemingly simple thing so important? Basically the greater the angle between the nut (the top part of your guitar) and the tuning peg, the better the sustaining qualities of the string. Simply put, it makes you sound better.! and your strings will not go out of tune quite as fast. Of course you can always wind too much as well, and then the strings will tend to slip away out of tune easier. You want to have just the right amount of tension and angle.
I’ve put together these  7 tips in the hope it may help you string you geetar to the best possible sustain Here is how to How to string your guitar.

Step 1 – Take all the strings out of the package and lay them out from  thickest to thinnest string. When you buy your strings, always try and get the same gauge you’re guitar and yourself are used to, as changing the gauge could mean problems with intonation, and may require the truss rod to be adjusted back again.

Step 2 – Turn the tuning peg until the hole is straight in line with the neck.

Step 3 – Start with the thickest string – The low “E”,  and thread the string through the bridge (bottom part of the guitar where strings will fix themselves). Each guitar has a different way of doing this, but it is usually pretty easy to see where the strings go.

Step 4 – Next thread the string through the hole in the tuning peg and pull it tight. Now release the strings tension from your grip up about 3 inches so that it loosens, but still holding your string firmly

Step 5 – Grab the loose part of the string with one hand and with the other start to turn the tuning peg. As you’re  turning the peg, hold the string tightly away from the guitar body to insure that it’s wrapping itself tightly, allow no slack. This will stop the strings from going out of tune as you’re playing the guitar. When the string is getting tight against the fretboard, You can let go and continue to slowly wind the peg a little bit at a time  and then stop when you feel it is well and truly wound on nicely.

Step 6 – Make sure as you turn the peg sthat the strings are winding downward, try not to let it flip over itself. Your goal is tog at about 2 1/2 to 3 full winds on each string.

Step 7 – Repeat these steps with all your other strings, but decrease the amount of slack a little bit each time for each smaller sized string.
Happy Guitar stringing, Smithy, her’e the tutorial, Better Guitar Playing tactics

As mentioned by the nice guy who commented on the last post about practise time devotion, quote “some  14 year old players are putting us all to shame”,  with that in mind and I’ll now go and take up Flower arranging, check this young Brazillian Guitar nut out! enjoy!