Excellent - i really enjoyed this video - and as they say ‘you can learn something new everyday’ - good luck with the song you were writing too - sound fabulous
I have a quick question. Why is Strumming on a acoustic guitar so hard? (I mean the strumming not the pressing. I have calluses and it's not painful and guitars are adjusted) The strings are harder and thicker than on an electric and the pick gets caught up, and strumming on an acoustic is terribly loud to my ears (I wear hearing aids). I strum always on my strat and its so much more pleasant. I have 2 acoustic guitars but they always stay unused one ibanez and a Yamaha. Selling them.
I guess only play electric guitar then. Or, turn your hearing aids down to a level comfortable enough to play acoustic. As far as thicker strings, pick getting caught up, etc...that only gets better/easier by putting in the time and playing/practicing. Don't give up!!! Keep at it!!! You won't be sorry!!! Good luck, my friend!!!!
@Justin -- Wild mate!. Just.... maybe to help some folks understand better.... Are you conflating "Nashville stringing' (which IS a thing) with 'altered-tuning'?... This is different string gauges, yes, ... not 'Nashville-stringing' ... but it IS 'standard' tuning. The sound is ethereal. True 'Nashville-stringing' would be (reading from off my Ernie Ball 12 string packaging) 28, 22 (both wound), 14, 10 , 15, and 11. (or gauges about those sizes, one can go a tad fatter with stings 6 thru 3 if one wants a little more 'bottom'). I'm having a fun time right now playing a Nashville-strung guitar tuned to open-G. Next time I change strings on that guitar I'm going to have a go at this.
I was debating with myself if Nashville is an 'altered tuning' or not, cos I always think of it as different intervals too - but these are OCTAVE changes which is an interval, so I decided that I can justify it as an altered tuning, even if there are aguments that it shouldn't be called that. It's just an opinion.... ;)
@@JustinGuitarSongs Hahahaha. We're both right. You got it MORE right. I realized 10 minutes after I commented that I was 'half-wrong' and someone was going to nail me. LOL. Yeah, 6 and 5 are still tuned to E and A, ... but different E and A. So yeah 'altered' is spot on. I've considered that Nash-stringing isn't 'altered.' Got that wrong. Of course it is. Here's something BRILLIANT -- I was having trouble getting thru a little section of something i'm working on in Nash-strung open G. And I have to get through that twice. So I tried fingerpicking through it for those 3 measures. That's easier than I had been doing.... and prettier!. Don't know why I never considered fingerpicking in open G before?.... Maybe b/c SIR Keith didn't fingerpick Honky Tonk Women or Brown Sugar or Tumblin Dice or .... LOL Brilliant Justin.
Justin - off topic here but I have ask. Long ago on RU-vid you had a lesson on leather and lace. I haven't played it for a while so I went searching for it but it seems to be gone. Am I looking in the wrong places? Did you take it down?
I guess you didn't actually watch the video. You must've STOPPED watching as soon as he started talking. He explains all that. THAT'S what the whole video is about! He explains how using different strings, but tuned to the same notes, sounds different, much like a 12-string guitar.
@justinguitar I have a question which might not be related to this video. Btw intersting video. My question is I prefer playing with my fingers instead of a pick. However, whenever I do my spider exercise I just fail at picking strings. Help... !
@@H_arbour Hey thanks man, but I was coming from a place for both hands coordination point of view. Like we don't really think of soloing in finger style. So is there any exercise such as spider to develop that but specifically from finger style guitar.
