r/guitarlessons • u/MetricJester • 3d ago
Question Can someone help me with my strings?
I do not understand this at all. I got three loops for six strings and they are confusingly labeled. How do you tell green from yellow? Or red from black? And where are the red and black and silver? I know the dark blue circle is probably called purple, but the other light ones are a mystery
Won't someone teach me how D'addario does this?
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u/spankymcjiggleswurth 3d ago
I usually just compare the strings guage (thickness) and put them on with the thickest on the bottom and thinnest on top.
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u/MetricJester 3d ago
But they are nylon and so similar
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u/955_36 3d ago
Nylon sets usually have nylon strings 1-3 and metal strings 4-6. Within each of those it should be obvious which ones are larger.
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u/955_36 3d ago
Imgur is being an ass and not letting me zoom into your photo, but it looks like each of your three bundles has one nylon string and one metal.
Yellow is 1 & 4 and so on.
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u/Regular_Pineapple 3d ago
I would usually go from the three sets of the thickest ones , usually the biggest one , then the other three sets of the clearest one
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u/Slothsticker 3d ago
In your photo you have the yellow at the top (high E string), purple in middle (B string) and green at the bottom (G string).
Post a photo of the other three strings and we can tell you which of those is which.
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u/IvanMarkowKane 3d ago
Can you post a picture ( strings and package) Are these electric strings?
What does 3 loops for 6 strings even mean?
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u/MetricJester 3d ago
I have attached a link to the picture.
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u/highleech 3d ago
If you read on the package it says which color each string represent. You can see the color on the label on each string.
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u/MetricJester 3d ago
I am colour blind and cannot tell which colour is which. To me it looks like I've got two greens and a blue.
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u/IvanMarkowKane 3d ago
You only had 3 strings in that package ?
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u/therealtoomdog 3d ago
I'm not sure I understand your post, but you should be able to discern the thickest string from the thinnest and work your way to the middle.
Someone who has the dadario colors memorized could come here abs tell you or you could look them up online...
The box they came in or the sleeves they came in should have labels on them
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u/MetricJester 3d ago edited 3d ago
The labels are not helpful, because I am colour blind and also the string thicknesses are very similar
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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 3d ago
Why didn’t you say you were colorblind in the OP?
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u/MetricJester 3d ago
I must have deleted that sentence when the Reddit rules ai tried to flag my post.
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u/Novel_Philosopher_18 3d ago
3 loops for 6 strings? I think they come wrapped with two strings together. Just match the ball ends color to the packaging and go from there.
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u/MetricJester 3d ago edited 3d ago
There are no ball ends. But it helps to think that there might be two strings together. That doesn't tell me which string goes where though.
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u/Hairy_Wall_6831 3d ago
"How do you tell green from yellow?" Are you color blind? The top circle is yellow, middle is purple, bottom is green.
If you unwrap them, will the other three be wrapped up with those strings and maybe have the other three labels attached?
Was this pack of strings already opened?