I'm curious, there are quite a few guitarists (males) with their right hand or left, which ever they strum with, that their nails are longer than mine. Does anyone have their hands like this? If so, how do people react to you when you aren't playing?
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Hands that have longer nails than yours? I would imagine there are a lot of people like that... My nails on my strumming hand are always longer than those on my other hand, because of the instruments I play. it's hard to play the notes correctly on the violin (and guitar) with longer nails, but the strum hand doesn't really matter as much because I use a bow (or pick).
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My nails are the same way. The reason for this is because some guitarists finger pick. So, they grow out their strumming hand. Now you have learned something new about guitarists.
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Advanced classical guitar players like to grow their picking hand nails longer so they can achieve a different tone picking with the nail rather than the finger, but this technique is only used occasionally. Long nails only work with nylon string guitars, If you tried to pick a steel string guitar with fingernails, the nails would break occasionally because the strings are so hard. I guess this is why they make fingerpicks! Personally, I don't use nails or fingerpicks; I do all my fingerpicking with the fleshy part of the finger.
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