Playing Guitar With Acrylic Nails

The tone is much better and its very difficult to get used to using picks on your fingers.

Playing guitar with acrylic nails. Our nails have a wide diversity of tone. Fingerpicks are options like you said but then again my fingernails follow my wherever I go fingerpicks dont. Make sure the nails on your fretting hand are at a length that allows you to depress the strings properly.

You only do the nails on your picking hands that your are playing with. If you are just starting out you might want to round your fingernails to strum a classical guitar. Acrylic nails completely solve that problem.

Im pretty set on trying the fake nails I used to play acoustic fingerstyle without nails but now that I have them Id never go back. Plus I prefer the direct connection into guitar that fingernails give me. But the sound produced will be very much different than if nails are used to pluck the guitar.

Great for nail emergencies on a problem finger or for permanent use. I wouldnt advise your friends use their acrylic nails as guitar picks. Im not a huge fan of fake nails for a couple of reasons.

You dont do them yourself without training -. Playing guitar with long shellac nails. Playing with Acrylic Nails is the only way to go if you are a serious finger picker.

They are extremely durable. You have to use glue and while acrylic nails are strong inevitably they will chip. Use a larger pick than the standard one.