From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

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Changing your strings, part 2

Changing your strings, part 2

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

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Changing your strings, part 2

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- Then I go to the other side. Bring that case around so that I get my right leg up, then I'm gonna take the E strings off. As I'm unwinding it, I'm holding it back here and unlooping it. Now these, because they're unwound strings, I do the fancy double back loop that seems to hold them a little more in place, and I'll explain that in a minute. Get the strings off, wind them, put them in the trash pile get a fresh E string, packaging, unwind the ball-end side, hold the ball-end side, give it a little flick, lay them out so the ball-ends are over here by the tail piece and then I start with the first E string, put it on the loop, put it in the slot, and this is a trick that I learned from my buddy Richard Jefferson in Australia. Put the string in. Now we're gonna double this back around and we're gonna hook it under the string and then double it back on it, hook it back on itself. And again I'm holding it with the, a little hard to see this maybe, holding with the second and third…

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