Strange Phenomenon

String Breakage

Ever since I began leading worship from the guitar, I have had a bit of a problem with breaking strings (understatement). Each service almost always involved a broken “G” string (Please, no cheesy g-string comments. That joke is tired.) Lately, I have found myself more often breaking the “D” string. The problem here is that I am moving further away from the already unconventional “G” string break. An “E” or “B” string breaking mid-strum is not all that uncommon, but moving into the woven strings is a whole different level…I am at a loss. I have tried different strings, gages, picks, strum patterns, replaced bridges, and saddles. I have even played for some guitar techs so that they could observe my strumming. I really don’t know where to go from here…David Russell, I fully expect you to reply to this post.

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3 Comments so far

  1. Beth on January 11th, 2007

    g-string?
    YOU BROKE YOUR G-STRING?!?!
    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

  2. shaun on January 16th, 2007

    remember at evangel this past december, when you picked up your guitar before we started worship and your string broke. you looked around and said…….” amazing!”…

    that was awesome!

  3. jordan on January 18th, 2007

    I tell people about that all the time…Those DR strings started good for me, but that was the “breaking point”. (pun intended)

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