1st G String: Why You Should Focus on Your Practice Guitar’s G string.

This blog is for intermediate players, meaning you already know how to tune your guitar to standard tuning, and you know a few chords.  Hopefully, by now you have tried a few of the snake exercises, which are in several of my other blogs.  If you are a 7 string player, this blog is also for you as well, but 6 or 7 strings in this lesson does not make a difference.  I talk about the strings with respect to standard tuning, which if you don’t use standard tuning, transposing the standard tuning notes for the alternate tuning notes should be second nature.  For example, if your lowest string is tuned to D# or D, it should suffice that you know which string I am talking about when I say the E string, which I often refer to as the 6^th string.  Some people refer to it as the 1^st string, but I think calling it the 1^st string is stupid because it convolutes things if you were playing a 7 string guitar.  That is, the 7^th string is the lowest string on a 7 string guitar; while usually all the other strings stay the same.

As an intermediate player, you may have noticed by now that certain strings are more likely to break.  Metal players often break the low E string by slammin’ power chords (assuming that is the lowest note on the player’s guitar).  Many people also find themselves also breaking the high E string.  After all, it is the thinnest and the weakest string.  In fact, most guitar stores will sell you a single high E string, while still more guitar stores will sell you any single string that you ask for.  The next two string that usually break slightly less frequently are the A string and the B string.  But, the G string never seems to break.  I have played for over 20yrs and never met someone who breaks their G string the most.  This is why you should focus on the G string when you practice.

If you are like me, you don’t have a lot of money to be spending on singles because in most cases, buying 6 singles is more expensive than buying a pack of 6 strings.  So, if you are like me, then you want to get the most value, meaning that on your practice guitar, you play your strings until they break, and that it should be your goal not to have to buy single strings, especially for your practice guitar.

So, now we have established that for people on a budget, the string that is most important to practice on is the G string.