For the love of God help me with something real easy real quick!

I am so frustrated. All I wanted to do was come home and record. I bought some D'Addario strings, and figured I could figure out how to string easily. It has those color-coded balls at the end of them, but the ball comes nowhere near to fitting in the hole at the end of the guitar. Are you supposed to take the color-coded ball thing off, because I've found no way to do this either. No stringing guides even seem to mention this and I dont care how dumb of a question this is because I've never done this before and I'm frustrated. If someone can help me, please.

NO!!! Don't take the balls off (unless you have a Floyd Rose Bridge). What kind of guitar is it? If it's a Fender or anything standard, you slide the strings in from the back. (ball end goes last)

Let me know!

Thanks for not laughing at me.

It's a Tradition, but it looks like a strat.

But I'm still confused because the ball doesn't fit in the hole and I'm assuming it should?

Also, how the heck am I supposed to do this without a string winder? Like, make the string go around and through the tuning thing tightly?

Ok, if it's like a strat, turn your guitar over. There are 4 screws holding a plastic plate on. Take them out. You'll see like a dull silver space that has 6 holes in it. Feed the string, not the ball end, the other end through it and it will come out of the other side. Now, take the string and feed it through the tuning post. Turn the peg until it starts getting tighter. There ya go! Make sure to stretch the strings out, like bend them before you tune it.

[font=trebuchet ms]Our own schmange has a two-part lesson on this very subject right >here<.[/font]