From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
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Changing a string
From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
Changing a string
- One of the main things you're gonna want to do is change your string at some point or another. You may break one and have to replace it. Don Reno one of the greats of banjo-dom has told me once he never changed a string, maybe he would only change a string once he broke one, so he might have his strings on for six months. I find that when you're playing for a while, if you've been playing long enough on the same set of strings, it gets really hard to tune them. When you get to that point, it's time to change in my opinion. So let's set about doing this. What we're gonna do is change the first string and I would have a full set of strings on the head, this makes for a nice little table. Your banjo makes for a nice table. I have my wire cutters here so I can cut the ends of the string when I'm done. So, right now, we're just gonna be wire cutters, string down here, there it is and so, let's change the first string. So, first what I'll do is I'll take the tuning peg here, hi there, and…
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