I think guitarists face a constant battle with their strings, on the one hand, we want our guitar to sound great, on the other hand, we want to prolong the life of our strings for as long as possible. Personally, I have a hard time getting rid of my old guitar strings and I always …
It’s pretty normal to experience some soreness after a prolonged session, but it might seem strange to see your fingers stained black after coming in contact with your guitar strings. It could be just the fingers on your fretting hand, or both of your hands might look like you’ve been digging for coal. While it’s …
Musicians love to experiment, and we will do anything to improve our performance even if that means that we have to walk all our lives with long fingernails on our picking hand. People that don’t know anything about guitars or don’t know that I play the guitar always give my nails weird looks, and before …
Whether that’s guitar or violin, if you’re just starting your musical journey then you might think that strings are strings, and it doesn’t matter which instrument you use them on. Perhaps you’re a frustrated young violinist, tired of spending so much money on costly violin strings especially when there are so many cheap guitar string …
I think we can all agree that musicians are crazy and among them, I consider guitarists the wildest of the bunch, but then you have electric guitarists, and I must tell you, we are from another planet! That’s why I’m not surprised that someone would actually ask this question, I mean playing under the pouring …
Before I started playing the guitar, I was a piano kid and I kept getting compliments for my long fingers. Some people kept telling me that that was the reason I was good at it, while others kept insisting that I had long fingers because I was playing the piano. When I moved to guitar …
As a huge rock and metal fan, I’ve seen guitarists of this intense genre do crazy things. I’ll never forget seeing Rory Gallagher’s beat-up Stratocaster on TV, imagining the amount of moisture and sweat it had absorbed over the years. I was also impressed to see Metallica performing in England in 2019 under the pouring …
When you’re a rookie even holding the guitar feels awkward and alien, for me that feeling was multiplied tenfold when I first touched the strings of my guitar. Nowadays I know quite well the difference between having trouble pressing down on strings as a newbie versus someone with years of experience, but I will still …
Why Are My Guitar Strings So Hard To Press Down? Read More »
When I began my guitar journey, I was mostly afraid of failure. Like most of us, I was thinking about the end goal not the journey of exploration. My best friend however had a different fear, one that I wasn’t even aware existed and that was the fear of guitar strings. He was especially scared …
The guitar must be one of the most popular instruments out there because it’s portable, it’s relatively easy for beginners and it’s simply cool. But no matter how approachable it may seem there are plenty of guitar techniques you’ll need to learn in your musical journey, one of the most common ones is fingerstyle and …
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