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STRINGS HEIGHT PROFILE AT BRIDGE


yamamoto
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yamamoto
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10/05/2002 11:23 pm
A beginner's question:

I have recently shifted from acoustic (nylon) guitar to electric and from fingerstyle to pick. One of the great difficulties I'm having is to pick a group of strings without making unwanted strings sound. Also, I sometimes feel it awkward to pick during scales and moving from a lower string to a higher one (e.g. D-string to A-string).

I have set the string's height at bridge in the same manner as in classical guitar, forming a straight line. But fretboards are different, flat in classical (nylon) and angled in steel strings guitars.

My question is: Will it be easier to play if I set the strings height at bridge to follow the profile of fretboard (i.e.: 1st AND 6th strings lower than 4th) ?

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kimbob
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kimbob
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10/06/2002 1:29 am
You should set the strings to follow the radius of the fretboard. By radius I mean the curveature of the fretboard. They should not go straight across at the same height.
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Polera
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Polera
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10/06/2002 7:41 pm
i agree, becuses if you will eventually train your prioperceptive receptors in your fingers to be accustome to the one setting, and will be come difficult to change, as it probably already is. This means whenever you pick up another guitar it will feel wierd....but your probably thinking so what right? Well if you ever wanna try new guitars to buy then your not gonna have a base comparison to each guitar feel and you will feel like a beginnger. This doesnt mean you wont know how to play well or anything but im just talking about feeling.
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