As guitar player you probably just want to rock on as hard as you can and be as cool as you can be. But there is other responsibility besides playing the guitar itself, and that is guitar setup. It is a vital part of being a guitar player. No I’m not saying that you have to build your guitar from scratch, but you must be able to do the basic setup.

But why we need to know all about guitar setup? Couldn’t we just take them to shop if anything happened? Why an average guitar player should needs to learn how to maintain their instruments? There are shops for that rite?!

Well I would give answer with analogy:
Let’s say that you’re a one hell of a mechanic who took your car to repairing shop for an oil change. Not because you’re too tired to do it yourself, but simply because you don’t know how to do it. The shop keeper would raise eyebrows on you and say “you’re a mechanic, you were saying?”

Now was that any different with some guitar players taking his/her guitar to the music shop for something routine-do it yourself stuff like a string change? Why would you pay anyone else to do something that you should be able to do it on yourself? Like I said, I didn’t mean that you have to build your guitar all the way from the scratch; it’s just that you should be able to work on your own stuff for at least the basic stuff like string change.

You might consider this as your guide to the basic stuff that you should mastered. I’ll give the electric guitar section in its own section, because there are more a bit to it. While the rest is pretty much applicable for both electric and acoustic setup.

General Guitar Setup

Here is equally applicable well for both electric and acoustic, so it won’t be any difference whether you’re play heavy metal or traditional folk songs. You can find more specific stuff further down the page.

• Changing Strings – you should at least know how to do this.
• To make sure that you choose the right type, please check out this information about the basic types of guitar strings.
• Guitar Supplies – every activity needs its stuffs. And here is the top ten “things” you need as a guitarist.

Of course that’s not all when it comes to guitar setup, there are many more. But I guess it’s a start.

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