How to Set Up Your Brand New Guitar | Guitar Tricks

Learn how to set up your brand new guitar with Gary. Fret buzz, tuning and adjusting the action are all covered in this lesson.

There are a number of adjustments you should make or check when you first get a new guitar. From inspecting the guitar's string height, or action, to making sure the guitar's neck is straight, to insuring the intonation and strings are in tune, there are a lot of things to do.

Most guitars will need some sort of set up before you can really get the full potential of the instrument.

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[Accordingtoallknownlaws]

Every Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually is my favorite way to remember

[chrisdunnettmusic]

Great stuff! As a professional Guitar Teacher of over 37 years all points were spot on. Well done.

[sketchymittens]

*Got a new guitar about 5 months ago* Ok, time to learn how to set it up now.

[fredashay]

I bought a guitar from Guitar Center not too long ago. I bought if off the wall, so it was already set up and just needed to be tuned, which the guy did for me.
The first thing that confused me was that I expected the strings to be like a piano: C-D-E-F-G-A-B (and I figured that the frets are how you get to the sharps and flats), and was shocked that the strings are E-A-D-G-B-E. It all makes sense now, but my first day with the guitar was, _"What kind of drugs was the first guy to design a guitar on?"_

[RockWeller]

Whoa! Love the tips! Easy to understand!

[markonmac]

Comprehensive and concise, and answered some questions I'd had. Gary is a personable presenter. Use him again. (But bring Anders back, too.)

[teantonic]

Thank you kindly, this was very helpful for me

[akmt]

Jolly good mate... Cheers from Canada....

[MarioFilmsProductions]

I know another way of EADGBE
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All
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[Atimo]

*just bought new guitar
*watches first seconds of his video
*sees and hears his guitar

„I need a new guitar“

[mingury]

Pro tip: Do not let go Allen key like that if it ever falls over on to the body it can make a good deep dent on your shiny new guitar. It happened to me and absolutely broke my heart.

[YoshiBroccoli]

The ladies will all be coming to me with my dirty smoke on the water riff

[hagopcatchatoorian]

i was going to like it but then i saw that it has 69 likes. not gonna ruin that

[ransombaggins]

All of my picks have a mm size on them. What mm size would qualify as “medium”?

[andyharrier]

You skipped over the part about what gauge strings to use how to put them onand whether or not a truss rod adjustment has to be made when you first put the strings on that's the only reason I came to this video

[williamdistasio]

E, A, Dick, Gets, Big, E
This is how my friends and I always remembered standard tuning when we were kids, lol.

[bervins]

(E)at (A)nd (D)rink (G)ood (B)efore (E)verything

[chrisdidonna]

Anybody can do a truss rod adjustment.

[donjoseph]

Don’t adjust any of that unless you have a way to measure it.?

[r.m]

Paul Gilbert?? Jk great instruction though :)