How to Play Jazz Guitar : Using Flatwound Strings for Jazz Guitar

[1pixle]

actually, the flat wounds i bought were round wound with a flat ribon over the first wind. this in turn made it super stiff and not good for bending... so i switched back to rounds.

[WoWintosh]

@1pixle

Flatwounds are always higher tension. It doesn't help that flats usually don't come any lighter than 11-50, and that gauge would already be hard to bend if they were roundwound. You're a dummy

[1pixle]

@WoWintosh if 11-50 round wounds are hard to bend then you need to strengthen your fingers a bit buddy. You can't have wussy ass fingers if you're gonna play guitar! besides, I wans't making a point of how stiff the strings were, I was making a point of the wind on the strings and that this video is not 100% correct. You dummy

[WoWintosh]

@1pixle

Bitch please, I use .008s, or at least I used to. Homo that's what real men use. No shit try a set. Put them on, raise your action, it is fat city. no shit I'm serious lighter strings give a ballsier sound. Billy Gibbons uses .008s with a .007 for his E string, then he puts them on a les paul with a shorter scale length, so there's no tension, and he gets a fat sound. I'm being serious, try .008s, hell even post a before/after video with your pussy heavy strings then manly extralights

[1pixle]

@WoWintosh i know lighter strings give a ballsier sound, but the same thing happens if you tune down on any other string. and real men don't bitch and complain about guitar strings. I don't use heavy guage strings i use mediums because they work and sound perfect for what i do as a musician. besides, you don't need a light guage string for a ballsy sound, especially when playing with fingers instead of picks like i do most of the time. and honestly, I don't care what billy gibbons uses.

[WoWintosh]

@1pixle

Okay, I guess if you play fingerstyle then you need heavier strings. To be honest, I was cursed with the shortest fingers I've ever seen, seriously, my little sister has longer fingers than me. As far as playing guitar, I need all the help I can get. Literally, it took me years to be able to play an F barre chord at the first fret. Since then I have moved up to .010s, I won't go up to an 11-50 set, even though I want to, I break those way too fast

[1pixle]

@WoWintosh yeah, 11-50 are pretty high tension for most guitars, which is why i suppose they'er used more on shorter scale guitars. and I personally am not a fan of the super light strings because, well, they're light and i need to have substance when i play.. anyway, why are normal flatwounds(that aren't double wound) so hight tension anyway?

[WoWintosh]

@1pixle

I honestly have no clue. I read a VERY lengthy thread about it on some forum, but according to all this guy's research and formulas and real vs. perceived tension, flatwound strings have more tension than rounds of the same gauge, I guess because of the way they're wound, there's more metal in them, which also accounts for the slightly higher price

[1pixle]

@WoWintosh huh, interesting. i'll have to research it myself too then.

[GbubProductions]

@WoWintosh 11's are easy as hell to bend... I use .11 - .52 size strings, and they bend no problem, maybe not a Stairway solo 4 fret bend, but you can get your full step, and even step and a half bends out of them no problem.

[WoWintosh]

@GbubProductions

Yeah whatever, it's not a competition. I literally can NOT use 11's, I broke an E string on a set of Power Slinkies the same day I got them. Besides, the thinner the string the fatter the tone. No difference in sustain either. Plus you're not destroying your hands.

[CaramelMarshmallow]

@WoWintosh I once saw a bassist break his low E string. I don't think you can brag about breaking strings until you can top that.

[Alexislebaroudeur]

0:28

Your prop = a dildo

[Hanfkartoffelman]

OMG !! Dustin with a frckn beard!

[PooPoo2U]

"flatwound or nicklewound strings are wound with a flat ribbon instead of a round wire"

uh, no. nicklewound strings are wound with nickle and don't have to be flatwound. duh huh.

[BTBAMRulz]

can flatwound strings be used for metal guitar?

[PooPoo2U]

@BTBAMRulz: i don't see why not.

hell, i play metal on my electric banjitar sometimes.

[WoWintosh]

@BTBAMRulz

no, they are too muddy

[Vermillion2176]

Is it just me or does this video look like a huge note with a top of a guys head behind it.

Big Ron

[honeyfred]

@Vermillion2176 hey??

[brownbigb]

flatwound and nicklewound is not synonymus. 

[TortillaChip521]

I play bass, and I've always wondered if they make flatwounds for guitar. I didn't think they would sound that great though!!

[BrickFrigid]

those subtitles are really annoying

[Muze42]

expert village idiot

[Cliffs0fDover]

Your a fag...

[NapoleanXV]

what does he mean "upright bass strings are almost always flatwound"

OF COURSE THEYRE FLAT WOUND ALWAYS, they do not make roundwound upright bass strings, it would damage the fingerboard.

typical expert village crap

[angel1106]

roundwound strings damage any fretboard, singling it out just to bass' would be ignorant on your part, although i'm assuming your reasoning for you badmouthing him is being that bass strings are bigger... oh look at elixer, coated strings ;p

[NapoleanXV]

no, Im saying he said, "upright bass strings are 'almost' always flat wound" upright bass strings do not come any other way. your comment is completely unrelated to what I was talking about

[angel1106]

Look back at your comment retard, you were saying they're always flatwound BECAUSE THEY DAMAGE THE FRETBOARD. THE WHOLE FCKING ARGUMENT WAS ABOUT DAMAGE OF THE FRETBOARD fck what are you illiterate?

[mindlepin]

no comment on this statement? Okay here's mine... NapoleanXV you're a cunt. fuck off

[NapoleanXV]

the argument is obviously completely misunderstood, Im complaining at the fact that he said that upright bass strings are almost always flat wound,

they are always flat wound, they dont come any other way

Im done here, my point is made, what I what I said was taken out of context completely

[mindlepin]

Complaining? Do you know what you sound like? Boo hoo about some strings. The only point you've made is that you're an idiot mate. Slagging of expert village?! Free info to guitarists? Where's your video lessons then pal?

[BeatmanMyth]

@mindlepin wow. do you get off on being a dick? Like napolean said, what he said was completely taken out of context. and if he comments on expert village then let him do so he has a right to make his own opinion, though there is truth to it considering alot of expert village videos are complete trash. Not all of them but a fair amount. why not stop trying to create "online drama"? its assholes like you that make comments on youtube unbearable to read sometimes!

[BeatmanMyth]

@NapoleanXV Touche my friend!

[mindlepin]

Touche you fucking cunt! You're ten times the cunt for even putting you 2 cents you fucking prick. Who asked for your shitty opinion anyway. Hope you die of cancer you fucking cunt

[BeatmanMyth]

@mindlepin do you know any other word besides cunt? I hate your mom for spawning a demon like you. god your so stupid. who lets people like you go on the internet anyways? someone needs to rape you in the ass like the fag you are.

[BeatmanMyth]

@mindlepin Is cunt the only word you know? god your so stupid. I hate your mom for spawning such a retarded demon. Why don't you do the world a favor and kill yourself? I hope someone ass rapes the bloody hell out of you with their bumpy dick and prevents you from procreating.

[mindlepin]

shut up you fuuuucking cuuunnnt

[CommunityTroll]

yeah but your mom is hot

[NapoleanXV]

maybe...

[sc45470]

@NapoleanXV There are actually roundwounds for upright bass. Many EUB players used roundwound strings for recordings.

[NapoleanXV]

@sc45470 I dont believe this. I would like a cited source.

[sc45470]

@NapoleanXV check out NS Design's Roundwound Double Bass Strings.

[NapoleanXV]

@sc45470 Those aren't truly roundwound. They are just flatwounds that dont have any dampening between the wraps and center coil. And additionally, that doesn't support your claim that many players use them on recordings.

[NapoleanXV]

@sc45470 Sorry, I dont speak french.

[Ybanez893]

i use flatwounds for my viola it makes the wanted beatles sound. that what McCartney uses

[ramspi]

ridiculous

[pokemon777master]

i love those string on my guitar

[JasonRulesUDont]

I bought some flatwoud strings yesterday for the first time and they were about $15

[kathrynisawsome]

ive never tried flatwound strings but im wondering if it would be easyer/ smoother to do stuff like sweeps but still have a decent tone for the music i play. i play more rock/metal stuff.

[chaazums]

NO!

roundwounds...ernie ball skinny top heavy bottom

[toecutterr6]

I like old prog rock and hard 70's rock.I have the Fender P-bass with med gauge bright strings,I was thinking of trying the flatwounds to see if it better suited my style.I also use a fuzz pedal.

[dmoftheband]

IMO(I play bass and the same music styles) flatwounds are the opposite direction you want to go. Get Rotosound RS66s.

[toecutterr6]

I got the flatwounds and love the John Paul Jones sound I get out of them! I actually just picked up and old Epiphone Rivoli for that 1969 'Black Widow' tone.

[JederLacht1]

JPJ started using rounds on his Alembic, btw. He said he came to prefer them.

[DreamedOfHugeSpiders]

such a good guitar player

[biketopia]

excellent explaination. I use a telecaster fpr jazz and keepit strung with Flats.... it's nice...

[theprofessiona1]

i am amazed you can get a jazz sound with a telecaster. I myself use a squier telecaster and it's been so difficult to find the right tone to play jazz on it. Congratulations though on such a difficult endeavor!

[Kitschead]

Jazz is such a ridiculously broad genre. It depends on what kind of jazz your playing.

[OregonGrappler]

Cough Ted Greene Cough

[ciano15]

on strats and teles you just have to lower the tone knob alot and use the neck pickup... strats adn teles have a ton of highs in them anturally because of their single coils so you have to kinda even out by putting the tone knob to about 3 or 4.. or even all the way off.