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Hi, I'm Mike Lais, and on behalf of Expert Village, this is "How to Change Your Guitar
Strings". Okay, so now it's time to clean up this mess right here, which is very simple
to do. Or if you want to leave it on, you can go ahead, but it makes you look like you're
poor, and musicians are supposed to look like they're rich, even though none of them are.
Anyway, what you want to do is just take your string, just kind of hold it tight like this,
and get about a quarter of an inch away from the tuning peg, just give it a snip, just
like that. The reason for this, again, is just so that we want to clean up the look
of the guitar a little bit, it has really no affect for the sound of the guitar other
than when you jiggle it around you're going to get these strings rubbing together like
so, and you don't want that. But yeah, you just go up about a quarter of an inch and
if you're a little longer it doesn't matter, it doesn't have to be exact, and just snip
it, just like that. And we're going to follow this around all the way so that we get all
of our ends clipped off. And that's cutting the excess string off of the guitar.