When Guitarists switch from Nylon to Steel Strings

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@berserkingbear3393 Жыл бұрын

I thought I was terrible at guitar and would never learn much until I picked up my friends electric and realized my acoustic is a pain in the ass

@lukeweston1234 Жыл бұрын

Could have a bad setup too

@berserkingbear3393 Жыл бұрын

@lukeweston1234 I intend on trying some thinner strings soon.

@ArcalArrows Жыл бұрын

@@berserkingbear3393 is the string action good?

@ButterDawgDawgWitDaBudda Жыл бұрын

@@berserkingbear3393 You can try ball-end nylon strings on acoustic, other way around is dangerous but this one is just experimental.

@thiagocursinomusic Жыл бұрын

I have a les paul, and there are solos yhat have some parts where the sound doesn't come out. This happens with electric guitars too

@jacobwaters9675 Жыл бұрын

When guitarist switches to nylon strings after theyve played steel strings for years and years - *I have become a God*

@jaeger7243 Жыл бұрын

I bought a 20€ guitar with nylon strings of eBay and it quickly became my favorite one to play

@chunkbaby7544 Жыл бұрын

I started shredding my acoustic guitar like a bass and it gives me all the joy in the world. My hands are all badass though cause of my career in metallurgy

@cohengordon4066 Жыл бұрын

@@jaeger7243i got a 40$ off of facebooke marketplace and loved it, gave it to a friend

@jacobwaters9675 Жыл бұрын

@cohengordon4066 sometimes the inexpensive guitars are a real bang for the buck. Ibanez has a classical acoustic nylon string guitar that was retailed around $130, which is still a good price for it. I got a used one for 45$ and I love it. I've already played over 100 hours on it and I have not had it for very long.

@cohengordon4066 Жыл бұрын

@@jacobwaters9675 therers a certain charm to those cheap guitars

@mindlesswanderer8911 Жыл бұрын

Wait until bro discovers bass 😗

@RobertJakobMusic Жыл бұрын

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@yacobbass Жыл бұрын

literally the best instrument

@FatherMustaine6608 Жыл бұрын

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@theheadpriest Жыл бұрын

@@FatherMustaine6608it is

@ThePilk160 Жыл бұрын

Bro I was a classical guitarist before I went to bass and the first major challenge was the strings, everybody talks about plucking it but just fretting a note seemed impossible.

@theninja4137 Жыл бұрын

... And jam your fingers into the completely wrong spot with confidence, because fretboard width is different!

@mad3arber 4 ай бұрын

Play a string that's not there...every time

@kaedakazuhara3867 Жыл бұрын

I, who immediately started with steel: 🙂

@LPChipi 9 ай бұрын

I feel ya

@zStarT_ 4 ай бұрын

@user-xq3dd2up9u 3 ай бұрын

so u are dumb

@liliiamatviichuk8609 3 ай бұрын

Same 😢

@andreahawkins342 2 ай бұрын

@grimtapestry5585 Жыл бұрын

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@imauz1127 Жыл бұрын

LMFAO

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@justinward3218 Ай бұрын

After years of playing guitar and not being able to play an F chord, I switched to nylon and could do it in a day.

@St0ckwell 26 күн бұрын

I can easily play altered dominants with crazy finger positions, like an E7b9#9 (open low E, 3 fret D, 1 fret G, 3 fret b, 3 fret e; could also be spelled as Fm69/E) and can comfortably move that to wherever I want to go, but I cannot play an F to save my life even after 15 years of playing.

@Its_Pillow Жыл бұрын

Idk why but that sound when your fingers slide on the strings makes the song 100x better

@Opin10n 7 ай бұрын

This reason alone it qas convinced me to start acoustics

@servo69 3 ай бұрын

Haha me too

@vincentb5431 6 ай бұрын

After having played on a classical for many years, steel stringed guitars felt so much easier! The neck was narrower so it was _way_ easier to move the fingers. Getting "good" tone was also much more forgiving. You can pluck basically however you want and still get the same metallic tone, in contrast to nylon where getting consistent tone is very difficult.

@yohaAlt Жыл бұрын

I started learning on my sisters jacked up western guitar, strings lifted half a cm over the fretboard. It was good practice! Now all other guitars are so easy to play with.

@bobhoof1362 Жыл бұрын

Never heard it called “Western Guitar”. That’s interesting.

@kurtiscal3msetccdwell618 8 ай бұрын

This is cleaver. As someone who grew up and lives in the state of Alabama I was given a steel string guitar and learned classical on it. You just gotta hit the strings like they are a person.

@IsmileLikesGuitar Жыл бұрын

I play strings and plays my sister's ukulele and it feels.. soft.. too soft..

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@IsmileLikesGuitar Жыл бұрын

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@davie7199 Жыл бұрын

I played my cousin’s slightly smaller guitar and jeeezz, the strings are waaayyy better to play

@JustinDAMusic 6 ай бұрын

Get finger picks.

@Waroftheworldsz Жыл бұрын

Nothing hurts more than when one of those strings snaps and whacks you.

@kristiangurholt59 Жыл бұрын

This and your other short about not being able to play on an acoustic is hilariously relatable. My journey has been from many years of electric guitar and metal music, to a transition period of nylon acoustic, to now exclusively playing steel string acoustics. I used to hate everything about them, but after buying some good ones, going through the painful period of hardening the fingertips and playing lots of fingerstyle, I simply love it. It’s almost like learning to play an entirely different instrument.

@TheSBoy3 Жыл бұрын

Classical guitarists usually have grown and filed their nails for picking so the steel strings don't actually hurt their fingers

@dugger0 11 ай бұрын

Not everyone plays with nails.

@Nico-ub7yt 9 ай бұрын

@@dugger0Yeah, and you don't use nails all the time even if you use them.

@TailRunnerOPSpec 8 ай бұрын

Classical Guitarists... are you a classical guitarist? @@dugger0

@dugger0 8 ай бұрын

@@TailRunnerOPSpec you don't have to be a classical guitarist to see that some don't use their nails.

@TailRunnerOPSpec 8 ай бұрын

He said usually, not all. @@dugger0

@joshmartinez2518 5 ай бұрын

This is literally me right now on my classical guitar class since I bought my own acoustic

@slothfr_ Жыл бұрын

as a classical guitarist for 10+ years i can confirm this is very difficult for our fingers to adapt

@PikRabbit Ай бұрын

props for him sitting there for 20 years just to show us his song

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@Justgo_with_flow_ Жыл бұрын

My fingers be like rocks now

@TemkaUwU Жыл бұрын

I learn all my classical pieces on electric so when I play them on classical it's easier and more confident

@dromeus21 10 ай бұрын

it's funny. I find my electric (I'm new to it) easier for my left hand (chords like F#7 especially) but a lot harder for the right hand. the spaces are too narrow to play pima comfortably, and I hate plectrums

@dhruvendramahajan8099 4 ай бұрын

What was that song in the beginning when he said relaxing

@LPChipi 9 ай бұрын

I wanted to learn guitar, and as a complete novice I bought an acoustic guitar. Big mistake when you've never touched a guitar before. After a few months I got a handle on it and then played my mom's classical guitar. It felt like a toy!

@Aong_YT 11 ай бұрын

And I play fingerstyle with steel strings since I first got my guitar 💀

@annemone4758 10 ай бұрын

Dude same, I bought one with steel string and I just learn and play pieces I like since day 1, mostly fingerstyle. I thought learning guitar is legit supposed to be that painful so I just sorta deal with it...

@choco-kn4ur 6 ай бұрын

Agreed coz i can't play strumming (when up strum)

@teressa_rana 4 ай бұрын

@@choco-kn4ur omg so relatable i cant do up strum either so i only do fingerstyle in my steel string acoustic guitar with very high action as a total beginner😂

@Zer0Spinn Жыл бұрын

I am the other way around, I've playing finger style on an acoustic for years but got my classical just a few days ago and I feel STRONG. My index/middle finger tremolo is garbaggio tho 😂 aaand my hands feel small but that I was expecting.

@svantenilsson3204 10 ай бұрын

I have been playing on nylon for a while and just bought my first steel string guitar, gotta say that I love it, it feels like it is easier getting clean chords and I love the more like rustic sound, especially when singing to it.

@Kakashi-sb5re 2 күн бұрын

u recommend buying a classical guitar so u can get used to the acoustic one or just buy an acoustic one directly?

@rhhmunro Ай бұрын

It'll be your right hand that hurts. not your left.

@berry7usagii 14 күн бұрын

So glad I started on steel string so if I ever get to play a classical guitar I won’t have this sort of shock 😂

@jamesp2595 Жыл бұрын

Fretting notes poorly doesn't make them quiet, it makes them buzzy. Also for all you new guitarists out there it only took a week for me to build calluses and stop feeling pain so don't worry about this too much.

@Matix1179 10 ай бұрын

Me who has classical guitar with steel strings 💀 (i didnt put it there and when i learned it was clasical guitar i already had new strings on there

@RobertJakobMusic 10 ай бұрын

lol that's not good for the guitar and wood! if it's really a classical guit you should change it to nylon strings

@Matix1179 10 ай бұрын

@@RobertJakobMusic well it had them for maybe like 17 years i dont know how old the guitar is because i wasnt in this world when my mom bought it for my dad and i started playing 1.5 year ago and i learned it was clasical guitar like 2 months ago but the guitar looks fine but when the strings that are on it now will wear out i'll put nylon strings on it

@nemisiesaidSTARS Жыл бұрын

Man hasn't aged in 20 years.

@thegreatskinkpriest8104 3 ай бұрын

Ok but as someone who learned on an acoustic, going to a music shop and playing on a nylon was a dream come true. That shit is so much easier lmao

@ot7stan207 Жыл бұрын

I hated my steel string so much I went and bought a classical nylon lol

@Oi-mj6dv Жыл бұрын

This is amazingly accurate ahahahs

@dratinibrah 8 ай бұрын

I might be a masochist dawg

@joyeuxrouge4491 Жыл бұрын

Когда играешь всё время на металлических струнах, но тебе дают в руки гитару с нейлоновыми: *звуки тишины*

@annayazykov9653 11 ай бұрын

What guitar were you using in the beginning?

@samuelwillard1301 Ай бұрын

Opposite for me is true, i started with my Grandpas steel string and when i switched to nylon the strings felt like they were going to break. Took me a week to finally get used to it

@edcarlo Жыл бұрын

I use pick when Im switching from nylon strings

@RobertJakobMusic Жыл бұрын

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@Mariemtb Жыл бұрын

I recently bought a classical guitar and it's very interesting to play on it, the strings are so soft, the strings are a thousand miles away from the fret board, the fret board is so wide and it sounds so numb sometimes like the sound is dying after 2 seconds while my western guitar rings out for a long time. It's a handmade guitar by Martin Seeliger (Lakewood guitars) from the 80's and I honestly can not tell if the sound is good or if it just sounds bad in my ears because I'm so used to the steel sound...

@sethcall2916 Жыл бұрын

I’m thinking about trying nylon but I’ve been playing steel string for years

@YukuanZhang Ай бұрын

when I started playing acoustic, the skins on the right hand finger start to peel off and it still wouldn't stop

@FantoNum 7 ай бұрын

The "CHEW" sound 😍

@bradhienzachary 11 ай бұрын

Yes I can relate to that!

@Phyoomz 10 ай бұрын

Interesting... for me the biggest pain was definitely the fretting hand. Ouch.

@McGillus 3 ай бұрын

Yeah it gives you the ability to light a cigarette playing the world's smallest violin.

@thelionandthelamb7795 6 ай бұрын

It's like training with Master roshis turtle shell when you switch from acoustic steel to nylon or electric.

@North-eastmusic Жыл бұрын

Acoustic is harder than electric no doubt

@NoahLoftier 3 ай бұрын

My first guitar was an acoustic guitar with hard steel strings like that guitar. I burnt my fingers like hell, it became mutated, though I was dedicated to still practice. The pain later in the night is even worse.

@toothlessrpm6177 4 ай бұрын

I learnt on a really heavy steel string only after a year or so I was around a friends house with my guitar and he had ago and said how heavy it was and that he couldn’t believe I was learning on it , iv since changed strings to much lighter ones and I can honestly say that year on those heavy strings has made my fingers like cement.

@douglepong 25 күн бұрын

He’s not wrong.

@halmaralvarado3929 Жыл бұрын

Going through this suffering myself atm 😂 glad to know is not a me thing 😅

@EB-hw1ym 6 ай бұрын

I switched from classical nylon string to my electroacoustic metal string years and years ago and i was doing fine - until I stopped practicing for years and then when I picked it back up it was absolutely KILLING my fingers and I had to bust out the nylon again 😅

@sinewave1k735 5 ай бұрын

Been playing for over ten years but have never tried nylon before 😅. Started with super slinky on a electric guitar but quickly went acoustic in highschool so I could play anywhere anytime. We used to play during lunch, study halls, in between classes etc. I guess it would make it easier to play but I'd be afraid to lose my sound I get from D'addario, and Elixirs.

@waterunderthebridge7950 6 ай бұрын

It’s not so much the strumming but the fretting fingers where it really hurts, especially when you’re barring string and/or sliding. They really be cutting and slicing up your fingertips

@GoudLoodje Жыл бұрын

I’m really glad my first guitar was a western guitar lol

@synshenron798 Жыл бұрын

I learned on accoustic for 2 years and loved it. Mind you, mine was set up by a professional luther for my preferences specifically but still. I have yet to experience Nylon strings and im ok with that. I like steel strings. My hands/fingers are so calloused from playing guitar and being a mechanic that nothing really bothers em anymore

@korinrojisu4637 Жыл бұрын

Building up calluses is important, yeah its gonna hurt at first, but as time passes as you play more often. It'll be like the pain is nonexistent.🥰💙

@Iodestarr 4 ай бұрын

Or when you go from western to classic and realize you may need to incorporate fingers into your daily stretch routine ☠️

@DaveundseineGitarre 2 ай бұрын

I put steel strings on a classical guitar. I didn‘t know better. No one taught me. My guitar teacher just laughed and said it‘s unusual and weird that it‘s playable. But I played steel strings on a big fret board for years. Now my callus has callus.

@mehmetefek8123 5 ай бұрын

Is the melody played on the classical a part of a song? It souns beautiful!

@sven31415 5 ай бұрын

I switched from mainly electric to mainly classic guitar. May western guitar mainly sits in its gigbag for decades now.

@robertoyamakata6672 Жыл бұрын

I understand you 😂

@viktoranderas9541 Ай бұрын

It's a little bit funny how my guitar at home which I train with. Is the hardest guitar I play on. Yeah it's annoying but If I can play something on that guitar. Then it's just way better on other guitars.

@user-hs9cl3sy1l 2 ай бұрын

"Maybe I just play something relaxing..." "Guess who's back!"

@Blank_Name322 5 күн бұрын

I'm switching from classical to electric, wish me luck.

@AcroPlaysIt 10 ай бұрын

"introducing.... Calluses on your fingle farrets"

@factory_of_randomdomness 6 ай бұрын

What's the song at the end called?

@and_rhys 3 ай бұрын

Joe? Is that YOU

@sbkmarkel 11 ай бұрын

Which nylon strings do you recommend for a steel string guitarist. I just got a used Cordoba Fusion Orchestra. Thanks!

@RobertJakobMusic 11 ай бұрын

Great! I don't know much about strings but I often bought D'addario

@RHEMANDIANAOweimieotu 5 ай бұрын

When i started learning bass, by instructor made me pic the string with my finger for more than 30 min, He said it will help me get used to the pain😅

@sebabracamonte781 9 ай бұрын

I play Western Guitar, and one day i play the Classical Guitar of my mom and it feels strange the Nylon strings 😂

@M1chaelisOnline Жыл бұрын

Don't know about you, but my fretboard fingers hurt more

@mobill95 10 ай бұрын

This is the comment i was looking for lol. My picking hand could go for hours, but after ten minutes it feels like my fret fingers are gonna bleed

@LPChipi 9 ай бұрын

YESSS. I had to stop practicing sessions just because the string bit so deep into my finger that it made a groove and it just wasn't pushing it down after a while. Also, acousting guitars are way less forgiving. If you press the string even slightly wrong it will sound like a robot giving birth. Classical is way easier in that.

@Opin10n 7 ай бұрын

Sometimes i feel like the B and high e strings are gonna slice right through me

@Christopher_kornegay 3 ай бұрын

@@Opin10nI started on acoustic as well when you do play sessions at first try bending on the strings because the more hurt you feel the harder your finger tips become

@Opin10n 3 ай бұрын

@@Christopher_kornegay oh that was months ago when my fingers were stull guitar soft. They're fine now 😂

@charlottesmom 5 ай бұрын

This is why I want to learn on steel, get the pain over while learning! 😢

@yahuchanonyakov Жыл бұрын

Yes, nylon and steel are two totally different animals...I play them both. also play 12 string, and ukulele...

@joaofezasvital8521 2 ай бұрын

I might be crazy but nylon sounds so much better

@Therapyxx 6 ай бұрын

I dont know how it feels to play classic or electric guitar. Dont wanna try😂

@hazarannaba3776 Жыл бұрын

Hey i need an advice i want to learn how to play guitar do you i should buy classic or acoustic

@Krrishcute 10 ай бұрын

By the way nylon guitar is my favourite type of guitar

@Jakku_13 Жыл бұрын

for real

@tonytlly 7 ай бұрын

😂. I play my nylon after a long session on my steel strings to give my fingers a break.

@guybayo2002 Жыл бұрын

Now show us the other way around! :)))

@jynx_amp 3 ай бұрын

P.O.V= The guy didn't change after 20 years😂

@RobertJakobMusic 3 ай бұрын

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@jynx_amp 3 ай бұрын

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@average-team-kid 11 ай бұрын

I have done all of this

@Justapersonontheinternet-li7nu 16 күн бұрын

My dad bought a guitar like 2 days ago and the low three strings are steel and the higher ones are nylon lol

@handsome_butter_biscuit3925 Жыл бұрын

Try studying classical guitar and the Foo fighters all on an acoustic steel strung. Bra kind of music that makes your palms sweaty 😂😭

@iLyZy Жыл бұрын

What’s the song at the end?

@malachikomisarek835 3 ай бұрын

Not even a joke just actually me when I got my first acoustic a guitar. I recommend it though if you play electric play acoustic only for like a week and your finger strength will thank you

@X-CRS Жыл бұрын

You forgot to acting the steel string, steel string so painful in hands more than the nylona

@rhiminee 5 ай бұрын

What song is this?

@aditparida1 3 ай бұрын

Play on both from the beginning and be a chad lol

@Yeetypete 11 ай бұрын

Meanwhile heavy string enjoyers 🗿

@vilburkhanov2410 3 ай бұрын

Poor Beavis

@mk4supraboyy Жыл бұрын

Name the song?

@RobertJakobMusic Жыл бұрын

Ghetto Girl by Robert Jakob on Spotify!

@landsknecht_voran 10 ай бұрын

Is it actually difficult to make sounds on steel strings?

@besii24 Жыл бұрын

After 20 years all he could do is play it a little faster

@user-mc6wn6hs7w 3 ай бұрын

Sliding your fingers in steel strings though😭

@lesgobrandon27 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Willie Nelson playing a classical guitar with a pick.

@drekwilliamton5830 Жыл бұрын

Don't need a pick with classical guitar. Do you mean acoustic?

@lesgobrandon27 Жыл бұрын

@@drekwilliamton5830 No, Willie Nelson really used a pick with a classical guitar.

@drekwilliamton5830 Жыл бұрын

@@lesgobrandon27 huh I didn't know that. I sometimes use a pick with my classical if I'm playing for friends as mine had no amplification abilities

@vrai3078 Жыл бұрын

@@drekwilliamton5830there's actually many different folk music traditions that involve picked classical guitar ,like old south mexican dueto music and even some surviving variation of that music that evolved into corridos salvadoreños, and some music cusqueña from peru where they form like a small rondalla of 6 to 8 people and all play picked guitar together. being hispanic, picking on a classical guitar is actually not very weird for me, I see it all the time ,we think of finger style techniques over here as formal or puffy, but western society is more familiar with the specific evolution of the classical guitar that involves finger picking I guess -_-

@drekwilliamton5830 Жыл бұрын

@@vrai3078 You sound like if "um actually" was a person