How to Setup a Guitar for Nashville Tuning?

If you want to play in Nashville tuning, you're going to need to do a few things to setup your guitar correctly. For starters, you'll need to change the gauge of your strings, or else you'll probably break them, or cause damage to your guitar.
You might also run into a problem with the nut, in which case you can carefully try filing a smaller notch in there. Be careful though, or you'll end up needing a whole new nut! If you're unsure, best to get a technician to do this for you.
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[@cugir321]

Actually there's less tension with the nashville tuning. Look at the D'addario nashville tuning string set. Tension is about 120 lbs. A regular set of extra thin gauge acoustics in standard tuning is about 130 lbs.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Any set of Nashville Tuning strings will work. If you replace the B String with an Octave4Plus .006 Gauge High B, you'll be in new Nashville Tuning which is basically an Updated verison of Nashville Tuning, where instead of a regular B String, there's now a High B which gives the Higher end even more clarity.

[@jordancochrane3895]

good vid mate. glad you only changed the 3 bottom strings, google and other sources are telling me to change 4 but that seems silly to me musically

[@rome8180]

Yeah, unfortunately all the Nashville tuning guitar string sets that are sold have the bottom four strings being an octave higher. So if you want to do it his way, you have to buy a 12-string set and waste some strings.

[@hoshineil4815]

what string number 6 and 5 to change?

[@sparks2749]

When this video came out maybe you had to scrounge for the strings,... but now you can order the correct set of Nashville tuned strings from Sweetwater.

[@richardpalmer1763]

Great lesson. Could you recommend the tuner that you use to tune the strings to the different pitches required for Nashville tuning?

[@cramerswifesbf5100]

I use a chromatic tuner for basically everything.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@cramerswifesbf5100 Nashville tuning has a High G which is only a whole step below the High A of a Tenor Guitar, but there's a newer version of that called "High B Nashville Tuning" where instead of a Normal B String, there's now a High B at .006.