If you to help your guitar to deliver a great sound for you, with no distortion at all, helping you to get exactly the right tones from said guitar, then regular cleaning is very important.

To begin with the basics of your guitar cleaning schedule, you should get into the habit of simply using a soft duster to wipe down the guitar body and neck. Be careful not to use this on the strings themselves as, depending on your guitar strings, this will affect the quality of sound that you are after, as this again could leave residues of the duster / cloth on your actual guitar strings.

It might sound a little pedantic but you should wash your hands and dry them properly before using your guitar. This is because over a period of time your fingers may burnish the guitar strings causing them to lose their shine. If you really want to care for your guitar instrument fanatically, again to give you hopefully many years of guitar playing pleasure, you’ll want to pay attention to these small but nevertheless important small details.

If they are not available locally, you can buy guitar maintenance kits cheaply and easily on eBay. One manufacturer is the Dunlop guitar maintenance kit which has everything needed to keep your guitar instrument in perfect condition within the kit.

When to Change Guitar Strings

As time goes on you may notice that your guitar strings are starting to sound just ever so slightly ‘dull’. Or, of course, because of normal usage, they may just be showing signs of general wear and tear. As you may need them at any time, it’s always a good idea to keep a set of at least one set of spare guitar strings nearby.

There really is nothing worse than one of your guitar strings snapping when you are jamming with friends and getting an awesome good guitar riff going. You may never find that awesome guitar sound again, if you haven’t anything to instantly replace it with.

So that won’t happen to you, always carry a spare set of guitar strings with you wherever you go. You won’t go far wrong if you keep them in your guitar storage case.

Depending on how often you play the guitar, as a rule of thumb, about every one to three months you may want to think about changing guitar strings.  You’ll need to do this less frequently if you get into the regular habit of cleaning and looking after your guitar regularly, after every guitar jam session.

You’ll find that guitar care really does pay for itself, not only in terms of ongoing guitar maintenance costs, but also especially concerning the amount of pleasure you’ll get from your own guitar playing.

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