Interviewing My Teacher! 

Thanks for coming and the kind words 😊

took you only 23 years!

lol oasis were one of the worst bands ever imo . When they first started out I am very proud of the fact that I wouldn’t even cross the road to go see them at an early gig in Liverpool. Shockingly bad just happened to be promoted by the usual suspects.

It depends on your taste and what you are going for. I don't like them. They seem suited for high tension modern classical guitars and that is not my cup of tea. I'd go for nylgut by Aquila if you can't afford gut strings.

good to know thanks@@brandonacker

You might have to sell your blood for gut strings, but I feel selling my soul if I put carbon strings😂😂😂😜

Yeah, agree with Brandon (shocking :p). I ordered a bunch of different Aquila nylgut sets, after figuring out my reservations about low tension strings were kind of ridiculous and childish. And while the bass-strings in the Aquila sets are not superb(...still fine), the treble strings are pretty interesting. I've only tried actual gut-string once, for about ten minutes while the owner of the instrument was trying to make me hurry up as much as possible XD. But if you're looking for a little bit more feel on either low or normal("normal") - or higher tension - strings, the nylgut sets offer a little bit for every setting. Like Xavier maybe suggests on how to generate a carrying sound on gut (without the hammer-like immediacy of extreme tension nylon), these afford you that snap with a different playing style, while still on normal tension. They also work with nails, no problem. So you can just play as before, and have this experimentation sphere. And then the lower tension strings let you create some dynamics, specially without nails, that you just can't have on a normally strung guitar. So it's not gut, it's absolutely still plastic, and they're still sort of what I think of as concert-strings. But you can tune the guitar down a little bit, or go with the lower tension strings -- and get some depth to the playing that is just not there on normal nylon strings. On my.. pre-Ramirez style classical thing as well, with the narrow neck and things like that, it just makes a lot of sense to not slam and crackle the fingers and nails on the strings. Or to tap with "vigor!", as one of my teachers screamed at me once, on the left hand. If you do, though, something else probably makes more sense for you. But if filing down the saddle a bit, tuning the guitar down, and playing slightly differently seems appealing to you, then getting the nylgut strings is a good idea, for sure. Or, nylgut is a really neat compromise between the concert-strings for a classical guitar (that wants the guitar to be a harpsicord) - and the unaffordable, brittle, difficult gut-strings, that probably never made sense on a Ramirez style guitar anyway. In a modern setting for someone who don't have a royal patron to pay for the instruments as well, it makes a lot of sense. But that being said, the nylgut treble strings afford you a genuinely rewarding no-nail playing style without ending up in the "yeah, this was fun, but I need 100 euro per string strings to continue this experiment in any fashion whatsoever. **** and ****, I've wasted five years"- land that I'm sure a lot of people have before. 11/10, would go through that process again :p

Try it on a classical guitar or lute and you will learn a lot. Left hand slurs and ornaments are much better

@@brandonacker thanks for your feedback, which I will happily apply. There is a lot of dynamics for me to learn. Thank you again.