I've been playing a bit of everything, but mostly metal. I'll get into some of the lighter stuff, because it's fun to play, but I really want some heavy gauge strings to get into some brutal stuff (I know most don't like it, but more than just "scream like a pig and yell about murdering people"). I mean, I can downtune pretty low, but at a certain point, things just start to feel... slippery. The strings just get too loose and playing gets a little challenging, but it's still fun. I really want to get into the theory behind it all. Like, I know that this sounds good, but I want to know why. What are you into?
Interesting. Bass is something I would like to learn, but I've never had the chance to. What kind of techniques do you use, and how would heavy gauge strings affect that? My dad brought me up on classic rock, but I've since expanded into just about everything I can listen to. Lately I've been listening to a lot of outsider music; Jandek in particular is fascinating.
It just makes lower tuned guitars a lot easier to play. When you move around the guitar, the strings like to move left to right like you're doing a pitch bend. It just feels really weird to play at times. Regular gauge strings resonate at a high frequency, so you have to greatly reduce the tension on the strings if you want to play something like C Standard or Drop B, which I mess around with at times. Putting heavier gauge strings on a guitar allow you to keep more tension on the strings, which keeps everything feeling "tight" like a normal guitar with the standard E tuning, which is what I'm used to. It's possible to play low tuning on regular strings, but lower gauges feel better.What kind of techniques do you use, and how would heavy gauge strings affect that?