Learn To Set Up Guitars

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Guitar Setup — Part of the Guitar Repair Technician Employability Programme

Running since 2012, training people in practical, paid-for skills.

This course teaches exactly what a professional charges for: truss rod adjustment, nut and bridge action, intonation, Floyd Rose setup, and pickup balancing. Real technician skills, step by step.

What the course covers:

Tools Needed for Setting Up a Guitar and how to use them, including:

• Neck support, nut files, feeler gauge and imperial ruler, glue and more

The truss rod and setting the neck relief for playability, including:

• Tuning, locating the truss rod, the range of standard measurements, measuring the relief, adjusting safely,

The nut action (string height at the headstock), including:

• Measuring the string gauge; checking the nut action; filing the nut grooves; Fender recessed and Gibson nuts; what to do with a ‘zero’ fret; correcting a low nut groove and raising the action

The bridge action (string height at the body end) for electric and acoustic, including:

• Measuring the bridge action
• Raising and lowering the saddle
• Removing ‘saddle buzz’
• Floyd Rose floating bridge systems

Testing for ‘setup-related’ dead notes

• How to test
• Insight into adjustments and possible fixes (not all ‘dead’ notes are fixable when setting up the guitar, some dead notes are for other issues not covered in this course, but are covered in Module 3)

Intonation, including:

• Adjusting the intonation on Fender, Gibson, bass, acoustics
• Floyd Rose floating bridge systems

Balancing pickups for volume, including:

• Measuring the height of the pickups to the strings
• How to adjust the pickups

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is assumed that you know how to restring and tune a guitar

Why it’s worth it:

• Covers bass, electric, acoustic, and classical guitars — one course, not four
• Pays for itself the first time you use it — a single professional setup costs £50–130
• Fits around your life — learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere
• Strengthens your CV with recognised, employment-relevant training
• Proven by thousands of students already trained on this exact course
• Backed by a European Social Fund national award for employability training
• Counts as official redundancy retraining through Careers Wales / ReAct (UK)
• Get the full training, not the shortened version — Udemy only lists a slimmed-down course; this is the complete in-depth Guitar Setups program
• Includes the hands-on practical activities students have been requesting — Udemy’s version is demonstration-only

Guitar is the world’s most played instrument — 34 million players in the US alone — and most of those guitars need setting up regularly. Take this course, and that regular demand becomes work that fits around a life that doesn’t run 9 to 5. No commute, no shift pattern, no manager — work in blocks that suit the day, pause around family commitments, pick up again without losing progress. Study from a laptop or phone, from one place or a dozen, with nothing tying it to a location.

Taking this course could mean the difference between a job and work that you’ve chosen specifically — whether that means clients and income, or simply guitars of your own, setup by you and not someone else. Hands-on, practical, an instrument you already love. Redundancy, unemployment, relationship breakdown, surviving abuse, or any other reason for needing to change your working or daily life — this is a genuine, approved, practical route to something different. Being your own boss changes the pressure of a day. Setting your own pace changes what a day costs you. Better sleep. Sharper focus. Time that’s actually yours – for you, and maybe even your friends and your family.

What’s Included

• Step-by-step video instruction for every task
• Downloadable PDF guides and checklists
• A single downloadable reference sheet with best-practice measurements by guitar type
• A range of quiz types at every stage to check your understanding
• Practical activities Electric, acoustic, classical, bass, and Floyd Rose guitar coverage
• Detailed Floyd Rose floating bridge setup and intonation
• Active pickup height adjustment (not just passive pole-piece pickups)
• Guidance for a truss rod that won’t move
• Professional-level techniques taught at beginner pace
• Certificate of Achievement on completion

Every guitar type is covered to varied degrees — electric, acoustic, and bass — with the tools explained before anything else so nothing feels like guesswork. Instruction is deliberately clear and easy to follow, working through each step with the kind of precise measurements and tolerances that make a setup feel genuinely professional, not approximate. Complete beginners take this course; so do people who’ve been “tinkering” for years and want it done properly. Either way, the mystery comes out of it — replaced with the confidence to work on your own guitars without needing to double back to YouTube for the bit that wasn’t explained.

What’s Not Covered

• Diagnosing and correcting a twisted or warped neck
• Fret buzz troubleshooting beyond truss rod adjustment (uneven frets) — covered in the Repairing Loose Guitar Frets and Fret Stone and Profile modules
• Making or removing a Fender-style nut — nut construction is covered in the Making a New Guitar Nut module; this course covers adjusting the nut you already have, not building one
• Changing strings
• How to tune a guitar

What Learners Say

“This course took the mystery out of how to setup a guitar. I am impressed with the detailed measurements and tolerances given.”

“Kevin is very personable and obviously loves his trade by the way he comes across. It rubs off and I feel enthused taking his courses. 10/10.”

“All my guitars are now set up beautifully. The precise measurements in each step make doing a professional set up easy.”

“I wanted to learn how to set up my own guitars, both acoustic and electric. This course was great!”

“Great course covering all the major areas of guitar setup, and for a variety of guitars plus bass.”

🏆 ESF National Award 2017  |  Careers Wales / ReAct approved (Redundancy Retraining)  |  JobCentre Plus approved provider

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