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THE FERRET: Alright. So now we've got out new strings on; we've got out tuning machines
tight; everything is ready to go. We're just going to stretch the strings by - I use my
thumb and my finger here and my finger here, and I just go pressing with my thumb against
the tension on the other two fingers. I just work along the string just to get rid of some
of that newness and stretch out that string. Just like that. And I don't want to press
too hard because I don't want to break a string but I just want to put that pressure along
the string so it kinda gets rid of that newness. Then, I can tune each string up to pitch.
I'm using electronic tuner here that tells me when I'm in tune. And then I can just gently
stretch the strings again. I might want to do that two or three times, and then the guitar
should be staying in tune pretty well. If you don't have an electronic tuner, you might
want to use a tuning fork, which is usually tuned to A440, which is going to give you
your open A string note. Then you can tune the other strings by playing on the 5th fret
until it sounds like it's in tune. Like that.