Playing Guitar With Acrylic Nails

Make sure the nails on your fretting hand are at a length that allows you to depress the strings properly.

Playing guitar with acrylic nails. This is why my girlfriend has to go to the nail salon almost. In a recent interview on The Graham Norton Show Dolly Parton discussed how she wrote 9 to 5 using her acrylic nails as percussion. Plus I prefer the direct connection into guitar that fingernails give me.

Tiptonic Finger Picks add a minimum of 0050 127 mm or slightly less than 116 past the end of your nail. Ive used acrylic nails to play for over a decade. When playing guitar with acrylic nails feels like it is thawing it seems like your acrylic solution becomes a video game of beat-the-clock to obtain an also application.

Thus if you want the Finger Picks the exact same length as your nails when you were playing with nails only then you should trim the nail very slightly. It is a well-known fact that naturally grown fingernails are not durable enough to withstand the rigors of plucking the steel strings of an acoustic guitar for hours on end. But after enjoying the show you might find yourself curious about a few things like how the heck shes able to play guitar with those long nails of hers.

Chris Proctor is another guitarist who has made great use of picks on all his plucking fingers. If youre going to be fingerpicking protect your nails with a layer of nail polish. 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.

Acrylic nails completely solve that problem. I wouldnt advise your friends use their acrylic nails as guitar picks. In fact traditional lute technique uses short or no nails.

Like I could care less. Playing with Acrylic Nails is the only way to go if you are a serious finger picker. You only do the nails on your picking hands that your are playing with.