- Keep practicing moving up the fretboard calling out the notes as you play them, using all four fingers in a row, holding each subsequent finger down as you progress, then shifting up.
- Work on your chord progression of Emin-A-D-G to the metronome.
- Use your metronome at a slow speed, 60 BPM is the standard starting point for good, slow practice.
- Practice each chord movement separately, Emin to A for example, before attempting to play them all together.
Restringing recap:
- Make sure the ball at the end of the string is flush with the wood inside the guitar and the string is saddled in the slots on the bridge and the peg. The peg should be inserted firmly, but not so firmly that it won't want to come back out next time.
- Wrap the string around the tuning peg out towards the outside of the headstock.
- Start with approximately one or 1/2 fewer wraps than you want to end up with, shooting for a final target of around 1 wrap for the low E and graduating to more wraps as the strings get smaller in gauge to 3 or 4 for the high E string.
- Make sure that the strings wrap around the tuning peg in ascending fashion and in-line, not overlapping one another. They should spiral smoothly upward and the final wrap should be the one that exits through the hole in the peg.
- Bend the remaining portion of the string up along the tuning peg vertically, and when you've double checked your work and are confident you have completed the previous steps correctly, go ahead and clip off the remaining portion of the string so that it's relatively flush with the top of the tuning peg.
- Now begin the tuning and stretching of your strings.
A good example of clean ascending wraps.
Stretching new strings:
- Tune the string to the correct pitch.
- Gently grasp under the string with the pads of your four fingers of each hand around the middle of the fretboard and place your thumbs on the fretboard for leverage.
- Spread your fingers and hands a bit to avoid placing too much tension on any one point and gently pull the string up away from the fretboard in tiny tugs. You will probably feel the tension of the string loosening as you do this. (The higher, smaller gauge strings should be treated extra carefully to avoid snappage.)
- After a few tugs release the string and retune it.
- Repeat this process until the string either doesn't go out of tune anymore after stretching, or at least doesn't go very far out of tune.
- Repeat the process for any additional strings as necessary.
