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 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.
That's me when I switch guitars. I usually play acoustic nowadays, but when I pick up a nylon or a electric I would be missing the strings and trying to hit a note in between the strings.🤣
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Hahahahaha! 😆😄😀 I played acoustic guitar on and off for 20 years. In high school I played classical guitar my senior year and was in the classical guitar ensemble. I really enjoyed it. But never kept going. That is one of my regrets. I’m 36 now but am thinking of getting a guitar again. I’ve tried acoustic but for these exact reasons it just never worked out right. I think I was meant for the classical and/or flamenco. Makes sense. I relate to this video. It was very funny! 😁
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.
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.
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 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😂
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...
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Ive been playing with super high action with steel strings for a very long time without knowing (im learning flamenco and classical guitar mostly im about to become a classical guitar god)
Wait, people have issues with their picking hands? I switched to spanish guitar because my fretting fingers would go too numb to feel the strings enough to properly fret them after an hour of playing.
@@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
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 😅
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.
@@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
@@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 -_-
I want to buy a new guitar and i have a question to the more Experienced guitarista If I Do tapping (the Marcin Patrzałek kinda tapping) does it sound as good on a nylon string as on a metal string?
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.
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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
Could have a bad setup too
@lukeweston1234 I intend on trying some thinner strings soon.
@@berserkingbear3393 is the string action good?
@@berserkingbear3393 You can try ball-end nylon strings on acoustic, other way around is dangerous but this one is just experimental.
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
When guitarist switches to nylon strings after theyve played steel strings for years and years - *I have become a God*
I bought a 20€ guitar with nylon strings of eBay and it quickly became my favorite one to play
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
@@jaeger7243i got a 40$ off of facebooke marketplace and loved it, gave it to a friend
@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.
@@jacobwaters9675 therers a certain charm to those cheap guitars
... And jam your fingers into the completely wrong spot with confidence, because fretboard width is different!
Play a string that's not there...every time
That's me when I switch guitars. I usually play acoustic nowadays, but when I pick up a nylon or a electric I would be missing the strings and trying to hit a note in between the strings.🤣
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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.
I, who immediately started with steel: 🙂
I feel ya
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so u are dumb
Same 😢
Me
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.
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.
Gives me hope. Lol
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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.
Like they're a person 😂💀
Woah there buddy!
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.
I play strings and plays my sister's ukulele and it feels.. soft.. too soft..
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I played my cousin’s slightly smaller guitar and jeeezz, the strings are waaayyy better to play
Get finger picks.
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.
Classical guitarists usually have grown and filed their nails for picking so the steel strings don't actually hurt their fingers
Not everyone plays with nails.
@@dugger0Yeah, and you don't use nails all the time even if you use them.
Classical Guitarists... are you a classical guitarist? @@dugger0
@@TailRunnerOPSpec you don't have to be a classical guitarist to see that some don't use their nails.
He said usually, not all. @@dugger0
Never heard it called “Western Guitar”. That’s interesting.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I was struggling with the headstock part, I saw a like 3 videos in the spanish community and no one showed that part, so I thought "Oh, what if I search this in english?" and your video was the first to show. I'M SO GLAD
This is literally me right now on my classical guitar class since I bought my own acoustic
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.
props for him sitting there for 20 years just to show us his song
as a classical guitarist for 10+ years i can confirm this is very difficult for our fingers to adapt
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.
u recommend buying a classical guitar so u can get used to the acoustic one or just buy an acoustic one directly?
Nothing hurts more than when one of those strings snaps and whacks you.
This is why I want to learn on steel, get the pain over while learning! 😢
I learn all my classical pieces on electric so when I play them on classical it's easier and more confident
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
Interesting
When I changed from steel to nylon I felt such relief
Idk why but that sound when your fingers slide on the strings makes the song 100x better
This reason alone it qas convinced me to start acoustics
Haha me too
My fingers be like rocks now
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!
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.
Hahahahaha! 😆😄😀
I played acoustic guitar on and off for 20 years. In high school I played classical guitar my senior year and was in the classical guitar ensemble. I really enjoyed it. But never kept going. That is one of my regrets. I’m 36 now but am thinking of getting a guitar again. I’ve tried acoustic but for these exact reasons it just never worked out right. I think I was meant for the classical and/or flamenco. Makes sense. I relate to this video. It was very funny! 😁
By the way nylon guitar is my favourite type of guitar
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.
"Maybe I just play something relaxing..."
"Guess who's back!"
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.
Is the melody played on the classical a part of a song? It souns beautiful!
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
And I play fingerstyle with steel strings since I first got my guitar 💀
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...
Agreed coz i can't play strumming (when up strum)
@@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😂
Steel string will make you invincible on nylon guitar.
Man hasn't aged in 20 years.
It'll be your right hand that hurts. not your left.
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.🥰💙
Istg when i got a classical guitar after okay acoustic for 5 years, istg it felt like Heaven
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...
I know the feeling.
I use pick when Im switching from nylon strings
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He’s not wrong.
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 😂
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
Yes I can relate to that!
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.
I might be a masochist dawg
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
I switched from mainly electric to mainly classic guitar. May western guitar mainly sits in its gigbag for decades now.
I’m thinking about trying nylon but I’ve been playing steel string for years
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.
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.
Yeah it gives you the ability to light a cigarette playing the world's smallest violin.
This is amazingly accurate ahahahs
I’m really glad my first guitar was a western guitar lol
Acoustic is harder than electric no doubt
Interesting... for me the biggest pain was definitely the fretting hand. Ouch.
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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
It's like training with Master roshis turtle shell when you switch from acoustic steel to nylon or electric.
No joke. I play classical guitar, and my steel string guitar playing buddies couldn't understand why I simply could not play their guitars. Ouch!
Why can’t u ? Any reason ? I have never touched a steel string guitar so would like to know
@@NylonStrings83Did you watch the video
I hated my steel string so much I went and bought a classical nylon lol
I have done all of this
Ive been playing with super high action with steel strings for a very long time without knowing (im learning flamenco and classical guitar mostly im about to become a classical guitar god)
I understand you 😂
Wait, people have issues with their picking hands?
I switched to spanish guitar because my fretting fingers would go too numb to feel the strings enough to properly fret them after an hour of playing.
I might be crazy but nylon sounds so much better
I play both
What was that song in the beginning when he said relaxing
when I started playing acoustic, the skins on the right hand finger start to peel off and it still wouldn't stop
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
lol that's not good for the guitar and wood! if it's really a classical guit you should change it to nylon strings
@@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
Going through this suffering myself atm 😂 glad to know is not a me thing 😅
"introducing.... Calluses on your fingle farrets"
for real
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 😅
That’s why we have picks.
Don't know about you, but my fretboard fingers hurt more
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
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.
Sometimes i feel like the B and high e strings are gonna slice right through me
@@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
@@Christopher_kornegay oh that was months ago when my fingers were stull guitar soft. They're fine now 😂
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I'm switching from classical to electric, wish me luck.
Name the song?
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Now..with high action
I play Western Guitar, and one day i play the Classical Guitar of my mom and it feels strange the Nylon strings 😂
Meanwhile Willie Nelson playing a classical guitar with a pick.
Don't need a pick with classical guitar. Do you mean acoustic?
@@drekwilliamton5830 No, Willie Nelson really used a pick with a classical guitar.
@@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
@@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 -_-
@@vrai3078 You sound like if "um actually" was a person
I want to buy a new guitar and i have a question to the more Experienced guitarista
If I Do tapping (the Marcin Patrzałek kinda tapping) does it sound as good on a nylon string as on a metal string?
Yes, nylon and steel are two totally different animals...I play them both. also play 12 string, and ukulele...
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.
Poor Beavis
My dad bought a guitar like 2 days ago and the low three strings are steel and the higher ones are nylon lol
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😅
I played in metal strings and yes it hurts but it sounds better..my left hand fingers skin kept changing
You forgot to acting the steel string, steel string so painful in hands more than the nylona
Dont forget th difference in fretboard width
Custom light d'addorio phosphor bronze only make it slightly better, sustain on like a martin is to die for though.
Meanwhile heavy string enjoyers 🗿
Try studying classical guitar and the Foo fighters all on an acoustic steel strung. Bra kind of music that makes your palms sweaty 😂😭
Damn I struggle more with acoustic than steel strings but it’s not because of the strings, more like the width of the neck