Learn Guitar Beginners - 5 Money Saving Guitar Maintenance Tips

Let's look at some general maintenance tips that will save you the headaches down the road of extra maintenance fees that can be avoided.

1. Utilize your warranty: By all means if you have a free tune up on your guitar take advantage of it! Depending on how long the guitar you purchase has been sitting on the shelf you will need to bring it back in the shop to get your strings changed, intonation (which is basically what allows your guitar notes to sound the same throughout the neck of your guitar), pick-up and neck adjustment.

2. Learn how to change your strings: This is a must for all guitar players to learn. This is just like learning to fill your car tires up with air. You can leave it, however, you'll be sorry later on. One note to keep in mind; If you change your guitar strings to a different gauge you will either want to take it to your guitar dealer 1 to 2 weeks later to adjust your guitar neck and intonation, or you can learn how to do this yourself and save some money.

3. Wipe down your strings and dust your guitar: Your finger tips sweat and naturally corrode the guitar strings and frets on your guitar. Dust can also collect in all of those cracks and crevices of your guitar including your tone/volume knobs causing crackle when you turn your knobs. With a soft cloth dust off your guitar and wipe down your guitar neck and strings. Parts of the guitar naturally wear out just like a car, however, by taking a little extra time after you play or practice guitar to wipe down your neck and strings, and dust your guitar off, you will allow your guitar to last much longer.

4. Use your Humidifier: If you own an acoustic guitar use your humidifier. If you don't own one, put this article down and purchase one right away. You will save your acoustic guitar from possible warping and cracking. There's nothing more annoying than having the perfect set-up only to forget to use your humidifier and have a weather change at the same time causing your instrument to go out of whack. Without using a humidifier you're almost guaranteed to regret it later on, and will definitely have to take your guitar in the shop sooner than later.

5. Ask Your Guitar Instructor: A great question you can ask your guitar instructor is how to do basic guitar maintenance. If your instructor has been teaching for more than 15 years, chances are that your instructor will know a thing or two about general guitar maintenance that will help you with cost saving guitar maintenance.