((( The Practical Seer )))

[Sacateca]

Well, my 'string bending callouses are FINALLY getting thick enough to play Hendrix properly.
It was a drag having to stop because my callouses couldn't handle any more and I had to wait for them to build up.

Let me explain about the sound of the classic guitarists of the late 1960s to 1970s.
They had a secret that all us young guitarists finally learned:

THEY WERE USING SUPER-SLINKY GUITAR STRINGS!!

That's why it was so easy for them to bend strings!

Such strings started with .008 on the high E string.

Now they start with .009 WHICH IS STILL VERY LIGHT

http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Ball-2223-S ... AR7WDDGX5K

Especially .008 Super Slinky strings that all us electric guitar kids were using
were GREAT for bending strings and LAME for most everything else.
Oh, you could play Power Chords, but the damned things were always going out of tune
and would break easily.

SUPER-SLINKY STRINGS ARE PRACTICALLY USELESS FOR JAZZ!!!

...and Jazz has practically no use for bending strings

Since I discovered them, I now use Monoprice coated strings.
They are coated, like Elixir strings, for half the price:

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=1 ... 1&format=2

Elixir guitar strings:

http://www.amazon.com/Elixir%C2%AE-Stri ... ar+strings

These Monoprice guitar strings are FANTASTIC. However...they are VERY DIFFICULT, at the gauge I use, to do Hendrix string bending.
That's why I had to carefully build up my callouses and...I'm still in that process, but I am getting there!!