Generally speaking there are two types of guitar strings that are made.
How To Break In A New Set Of Guitar Strings
Have you been noticing lately that after you have put on a fresh set of guitar strings, and rock out your favorite guitar riffs for awhile, that the strings just don’t hold their tune very long? The reason for this is because new strings need to be properly stretched out. There are a few extra steps that need to be taken when you change your guitar strings.
How Do Different Types Of Guitar Strings Effect Your Sound?
There are so many different brands of guitar strings out there, and within the brands there are many different gauges and types. This can be overwhelming for beginners, so I want to briefly discuss different types of strings and associated sizes and why you want to carefully consider the types of strings you would want to use.
Your Personal Tone Generator
A guide to getting a sound and trouble shooting
A good sound starts from the fingers, through the pick-up to the guitar and out. If you dont start there, youre spinning in circles and end up with a transparent (fuzzy) sound without body and response. Your fingers are your tone generators. Not the amps or pedals. Those are tools to augment your expression. Thats what guitar lessons teach you, not teaching you a song without teaching you, and guiding you in technique.
I Use Gibson Pick-Ups, Why?
For years or decades Ive played electric guitar in bands at bars, schools, concerts and recording sessions yet I couldnt tell you what pick-ups (p/us) were about. I mean, I didnt have a clue as to what a pick-up did what to my sound. I grew up in a Gibson family. I mean that my relatives, when they didnt ridicule me for my participation as a rock and roll guitar player, said if I played a guitar, it had to be a Gibson. So, I only had a clue about humbucker type pick-ups…
Gibson Humbucker Guitar Strings
This is a new line of electric guitar string from the Gibson Guitar co. called Gibson Gear, Elgin, Illinois U.S.A. Its new to me
Ive written articles calling the Gibson electric guitar string the best actually; theyre my favorite electric guitar strings. Like Ive said before, Ive used most of the major string brands and I play all the time. Also, I know its been said time and again that guitar strings have so much in common that theres no discernable difference…