Nothing beats the sound of a warm steel string tone IMO. Definitely worth the extra time to learn how to play a steel string, they play beautifully once you get the hang of it.
I’ve been playing classical for a couple of months and saw an acoustic for the first time 3 days ago and was so shocked to see how tiny fretboard was. I was even more surprised when my guitar school teacher told me you can get an custom acoustic guitar with a classical sized fretboard
You know what the best tone is though? A gypsy jazz guitar with silver-plated flatwound gypsy jazz strings. First time I used these strings I feel in love and never looked back
I've finger picked a steel string. It didn't seem much more difficult. I think for me it was more an issue of, I want to slide my fingers around on the frets but when your thinner strings being knify, might wanna get your calis built up again before sliding back and fourth real fast, not a great feeling, it does make you feel as though sliding any faster is gunna slice your finger tips up.
My only problem fingerpicking with my steel string guitar is how quick my nails wears down after playing. PS: I DON'T pluck ONLY with my nails I just prefer the sound when my nails hit it at the end of the stroke.
I started learning classical on a normal guitar before my parents got me a classical guitar it was like that for a few months. Sadly I cut my tendons on both my middle fingers so I haven’t been able to play for a month and won’t get to until like February :,)
I have been playng classical guitar for 8 years, and I got steel string guitar for 2 months to practice with. This is exactly how it felt. No blood, but it hurt a lot.
I didn't know this was a thing, but then I don't know many things. I have steel string and like to play fingerstyle, Lianne La Havas type songs. Only recently felt sore and needed to build up a callous from extra power on harmonic note strings ... Getting electric soon! Very looking forward to how easy it will feel to play this one song in particular that's 70 % bar chords :/
Omg I remember the first time I went from electric guitar to acoustic. Both have steel but acoustic is just crazy on how sharp and strong it’s steel strings are.
It’s always fun letting my friends play my 110 gauge strings when they play very thin electric guitar strings. It looks like it’s a lot more comfortable haha
I'm puzzled by this video. I play steel strings. My finger-picking has never hurt but it used to wear my nails down in about 20 minutes. Now I have acrylic nails from a salon on my picking hand only. On the other hand, the pain from holding chord shapes has never left me, despite the callouses.
Acoustic was my first and still is my only guitar. The strings gotten a little rusty and my fretting hand used to bleed hard, developed calluses and I still strum with fingers... ✨
I’ve only ever used steel string with fingerpicking. Actually learned fingerpicking on an electric before buying my first acoustic. Don’t know what this video is talking about unless it’s about folks with leprosy or something.
Man I played acoustic guitar for 3 years now using my finger tips since I cant really grow nails due to my work and I never ever experienced any pain in the picking hand....
Even for people with rock guitars or basses told me that my guitar has very... hard strings. And for me is like a challenge to make chords like F with the whole finger on every string
Beginners Bass players in my class: Ouch! The strings of the bass are the most painful! Me, who has been playing a lot of fingerstyle songs in a metal strings guitar for couple of months: I don’t know what are you talking about.
but hey I'm playing steel strings with my fingers both strum and lead for like 2 years...still a beginner but i can say that the pain really goes away after 2-3 months or less
interesting. i’ve been playing for 3 months now on steel and only finger picking and the only pain is from playing for multiple hours but only on my left hand
Too be fair I've been playing alot for 4 months, started on a steel string acoustic and only recently play on a nylon string the odd time and steels only hurt for about 2 weeks to a month
At first I was extremely confused as to what "pain" he's talking about, had to go back 12 years to when I started playing. Yup steel strings felt like knives back then 😂
I have never had my fingers bleed from normal finger style. When my fingers bleed on acoustic it's because I used the back of my finger, and the nail as a pick, and I cut up the cuticle where my nail starts on the finger and bleed from there. How do you bleed from just plucking a string???
Actually never really had that issue , I play any guitar I get put in my hands 🤣 Ive got all types of guitars at home. I love to play my western guitar the most of all. But its funny to feel the difference between a fender jazz bass and then picking up a electric guitar with light strings after it 😁 like playing a toy guitar.
I mean i play with fingers. Theres a lot of songs where you have to pick multiple strings at ones and maybe im just not skilled enough but i dont know how i would do it with a pick