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The Guitar Playing Thread (technique, tab, practice, etc.)
Spluff:
There's no real benefit - get used to the thickness you plan on using. Having extra finger strength won't make you a better player. It only takes a little while for your hands to adjust to a different gauge of strings, anyway.
billiumbean:
Actually, hand strength dictates how quickly you warm up. The stronger the hands, the quicker you'll get to gig-caliber playing.
Thrillho:
Also gives you stronger bends. If you can bend by a tone on acoustic, you can bend even further on electric.
Patrick:
The thing about trying to bend on an acoustic is that the G string is normally wound, and a wound G is fucking IMPOSSIBLE to bend a whole step. I have tested this, this is Fact.
Johnny C:
It's always weird with these threads and conversations because you don't know what other people know. For example, as far as bends go, if you're trying to do a really hard bend or you just don't have a lot of finger strength, a good trick is to use all your fingers in the bend and just push the heck out of it! Easy huge bends all the dang time! But maybe you know this already, and I'm beating a dead horse!
Or maybe you already know all the notes on the neck, and you know how easy that makes it to just pick stuff up by ear and futz with interesting chords and improvise really well and fit into other people's songs! I don't know!
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