When Guitarists switch from Nylon to Steel Strings

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[berserkingbear]

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

[jacobwaters]

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

[theninja]

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

[kaedakazuhara]

I, who immediately started with steel: 🙂

[justinward]

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.

[Dogshitgamer]

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

[grimtapestry]

Man doesn't look like he aged a day in 20 years! I feel bad for him only having 1 shirt :( 1 like=1 shirt for one shirt having man

[yohaAlt]

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.

[IsmileLikesGuitar]

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

[kurtiscalmsetccdwell]

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.

[kristiangurholt]

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.

[TheSBoy]

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

[Handle-qx]

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

[vincentb]

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.

[luvpeaceluv]

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[joshmartinez]

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

[slothfr_]

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

[PikRabbit]

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

[TemkaUwU]

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

[Waroftheworldsz]

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