weird thing with strings please help!

[biron]

Hi, I got my first guitar recently at guitar center (it was a pretty cheap $220 dollar schecter). I'm sort of a newbie, so this all could be normal, but my strings seemed really weird. The D and A strings, and even the low E maybe, are easier to bend and looser than the higher strings. It takes effort just to fret the notes on those strings without them sliding around under your finger and bending. I don't think my action is extremely high either. Even at like the first few frets, where bending the higher 3 strings is very hard, I can easily bend the D or A string till it hits the next string over and then some. I can do this on the first fret!! So this just seems weird to me so if anyone can tell me if this is normal or if I need to get different strings or change some setting on my guitar I'd appreciate it.

[BLitZKRieG6sic6]

Was the guitar used before?

[Lordathestrings]

hmm... 'sounds normal to me...

- check your tuning. If the lower strings are dropped below standard pitch, they'll feel loose.

- fresh strings may help. The plain strings can get kinda stiff compared to the wound strings.

[PonyOne]

-you just started... it takes awhile to be able to bend your high strings really high. At the 12th fret on the high E string (E), I can bend up to the 15th fret (G) with ease... I can do up to an A with a little more muscle. On the low E, I can bend from the 12th (E) to the 19th (C), which is about as far as they'll go before they just physically can't do no more. I don't know how normal or abnoral this is, but I've been playing for 5 years, about 2.5 seriously. When I do this I more or less "shove aside" the other strings to get that far up.... I jus tbend straight through them like they weren't there. You have to get used to your release or you'll resonate them on your way back down, which sucks, esp. with distortion. You can try using two fingers to bend, too; one on the fret, and the other one behind it.

-make sure your strings are all tuned in the same octave.

-yeah the factory strings suck on almost all guitars.... switch them, see if that helps. Better strings are designed to tolerate lots of bending without losing their tuning as easily.

Your Schecter is actually a pretty nice starter guitar... better than the Squiers, Hondos and genric Stratacrap copies people get. Just take it easy, things will come in time.

-No matter what those little sissy tiny strings (G,B,E) are harder to bend... don't freak out... it's not just you...