i'm a cellist...dominant c's die quickly, spirocore last forever. A strings always break in cold weather.

I have been playing guitar for 5 years now and i have only broken 2 strings, and it was when i was tuning. I play fingerstyle and play very softly, i don't even use a pick when i play electric! I experiment with different tunings, it was the G and E string and I was trying to tune them too high!

Same my last brokenstring was when my sister bought me a winder for tuning and I was so excited I tuned that string into 2 pieces.

I wish I knew what strings my guitar first came with. They lasted so long, I had the guitar for maybe four years before I changed them. I'm not an avid player and I don't play in front of crowds or anything so replacing them wasn't such a big deal for me, even though the low sound quality was horrible. Right now I have... Ernie Ball strings. They have a nice sound, and they feel pretty close to the ones I had before. The guy who helped me was so great, I don't know any of the technical words for everything I need for my guitar, and he helped me find everything I tried describing, it was great.
Anyway, hopefully these strings will last me a long time. I play even less often than I did before because of work and such.

it's always the high E on my guitar

I do ridiculously long bends (four or five notes up)

5? No way.

my fingers used to be pretty strong - the trick is to get the other strings out of the way - that means you have to bend the other strings as well

You must play with the largest neck radius ever. Like 12 at very least. On my intage neck fender 7.25 that **** would fret out.

I break the G string on my guitars most frequently. It's pushed me into getting thicker strings, which helps tonality as well as prolonging string life.

loooooooollllllll weak fret radii.

My ibby is a 16" radius.

Personally though, 12" is about the middleground ideal for me.

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break your g string fingering a minor?

Whenever i get new strings, no matter what brand, I always end up busting the high E the first or second time i tune it. as far as the rest of the strings go, they've never broken, but some start sounding really shitty after a couple of months. GHS strings usually last a little longer before they start going crappy.

I've been playing for a few years and I've broken my strings a handful of times. Usually it's the G or high E strings. Kind of annoying but it comes with the territory.

Personally I think it depends on your style of playing. If you play soft, and finger pick or something to that effect. They are going to go the distance. If you have a more aggressive style of playing they simply arent going to hold out as long.

The G always breaks more often. It is tighter than any other string. I break one string or another every 2-3 weeks. I play 4 hours or more a day though.

Also a lot of it has to do with style. If I'm streaming I am a lot more likely to break a string, rather than simple travis picking.

I've been playing an electric guitar with 4 strings on it for months. Made me really learn my chord compositions that way.

:D

I'm a guitarist and play mostly rock, metal and punk. With me it's normally the low E quickly followed by the G. Strings usually last me about 2-4 months.

Its seems like the g string and high e are always the one to break first for me also. This last set has lasted quite a bit longer than usual. Of course I havent been playing near as much. So it just depends..ive broken strings after only having them on there 3 weeks or less.

I'm lazy about changing my strings, though I do manage to change them before they break. If they do break, though, it is always the high E. I like to play with 8's, so they are really light.

I play all types of musick but it's always the high E string

I dont get how you do that. I get annoyed with 9's and even 10's because they feel so thin and noodly.

Low E (6) string for me, i play death metal, mostly breaks by palm muting.

well then thats the rarest string break ive ever heard of

I also play 8s, I used to string mine with 11s but the neck was bending

i was playing a lot of blues those days so I need the thick woman sound, ha ha ha

You're almost certainly hitting it vastly too hard. Calm down. Remember that after a point, hitting a string harder doesn't result in any extra volume or improved tone, its just wasted effort.

Lol gb, what a claim!

I HAVE SPOKEN TO THE ADMINISTRATOR.

I spoke to YAC thats as good as Iv got.

normally for me its the high E and it takes about 3-4 weeks.
I use 10 guage DR Tite Fit, and I play a lot of Death Metal, like Children Of Bodom, Norther, etc. and I play lots of high divebombs and bends, mostly breaks because of a divebomb lol

My bass strings hardly break if ever. I played the bass I've had for 5 years now and the strings broke recently cause there so worn. I generally change them if the strings are a bit rough.

I can't remember the last time I actually broke a string :D

I also use flatwounds, so I can use 11-gauge as opposed to 10-gauge roundwounds and still tune up to E standard with relatively no trouble.

When I was playing lots of 4-string banjo gigs I would break strings occasionally-once very few gigs or so

I must be lucky. I've only broken strings twice in my life. Then again I keep my tension at a normal level, and I use lighter gauge strings.

Light strings are way easier to break.

Have never broken an electric guitar string but I play an Epiphone jazz box. On Acoustic gtr I have only broken like 2 or 3 in many years of playing.

I've only ever broken 3 strings, none on the same guitar. The first one was my first guitar, i think i dropped it, the second wasnt really me, it was my dad trying to tune my bass and the 3rd was my acoustic. Not sure what happened to it, tbh i think it was something to do with the strings being 15+ years old and not having been tuned for 3 of those, then being tuned.

^^just how often do you play guitar, then?

I break strings frequently on my electric, might be because it's easy to do 2 step bends on the higher strings.

I think I break my G string the most though, so lame when it happens.

your dad broke a bass string by tuning it?

that's an example of negligence if I've ever seen one.

For Classical -- nothing beats the Savarez :) - Trusty ol cheap XL D'addario's work fine for the telecaster

me? i play it every day. But the acoustic that broke randomly, i'd just got it from my uncle who'd had it for about 20 years i think.

He doesn't play bass, or guitar. He decided he knew what he was doing and tried to tune it with a guitar tuner (not a guitar and bass tuner, just for guitar)

When I got my first tuning key I was so excited I winded the string right off the guitar.