Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we're going to be talking about the ukulele. OK, we're going to learn how to change your strings which is usually the thing that most people are most afraid of. And it's very, very easy. I'm going to change just one string on this concert ukelele and you do it by first loosening your strings down. So you just kind of just make it go flat on you and you're going to loosen up enough to kind of lift the strings over the nuts here at the top. And then you want to take if off there and you also want to take it off from here at the bottom. They're just tied on. This is where the fingernail clippers come in handy. And they clip fight off real easy an clean. And there are many different varieties of strings to use. I'm going to use aquilla strings. These are white strings. And usually when you buy the strings they will tell you which...there's a legend which will tell you which strings go where on the ukelele. I'm just going to change my last string, or A string. What you want to do is put it through the hole, want to loop it around here. You're going to create a little loop. You know, twist it about 2 to 3 times and you're going to get other end here. You're going to put it through, you know, pull it and secure it. You're going to make sure that knot is at the ...
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