Originally Posted by: sunflyHi just got my new 1st strat style electric guitar and i have of course joined this guitar site to learn all the ins and outs of playing.Straight away i realised from comments that the guitar strings surprisingly don,t last much more than a few weeks.So this is my question how do i know what strings to buy ie are there different types of steel strings and do i need anything in order to put them on.As i saw something about a capo and i don,t know what a capo is and it seems to be something to do with fitting strings? Also picks any comments on choosing picks?