D'Addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Classical Guitar Strings Review - Taylor Academy 12e-N

D'Addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Classical Guitar Strings Review on my Taylor Academy 12e-N Nylon String Guitar
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With a total set tension of just 79.81 pounds these strings are the lightest tension strings available in the D'Addario Pro-Arte Classical Guitar String range and make an excellent choice for students or anyone who's just started playing guitar and hasn't built up their finger strength yet.
They're also great for anyone with a lighter touch.
They have a nice tone and an even balance across the wound basses and nylon trebles are are very easy to play
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[@HeyItsKora]

excellent video- you appear to be the only person making videos- I was very pleased to see that you have reviewed the normal tension and light tension variants of these pro-arté strings. I have always preferred lighter gauge strings on all of my guitars, electric and acoustic. But for the first time I find myself replacing the strings on my brazillian guitar, which I've never done before as I've hardly ever played it. But, a potential looming audition that would involve this guitar has brought me to finally changing the strings, and I've been a bit overwhelmed at the world of classical guitar strings! Obviously the gauge I use on electric guitar means nothing in the classical world. I found that the pro-arté series appear to be widely accepted as a gold standard, but there are so many variants within the series (bronze wound, steel wound, nylon, black nylon, carbon multifillament, and more!) and I've been awfully tempted by all of these different fancy sets of strings, I had no idea there were so many to chose from! It's hard enough for me to settle on what tension I'm going to buy! But like I said I've usually been accustomed to lighter strings, but of course classical guitar strings tend to feel lighter than say folk guitar strings so I've been very hesitent about whether to stick to the normal tension, or take a bet and go for the light tension ones. Thanks to both of your reviews on the light and normal pro arté strings, I think I'm going to settle for the light ones, given you said they aren't *that much* lighter than the normal tension ones, which is exactly what I was hoping for. I don't want to end up with the normal ones and discover that my soft-touch hands aren't accustomed to them, nor get the light ones and discover that they're like playing horse hair, but it seems like the light ones are exactly what I might be looking for! Blimey that was a long comment, well thanks for your videos anyway, very pleased to have come across them! ...I think I may order both a pack of both normal and light, juuuust to be on the safe side.... I would hate to string my wonderful brazilian guitar and play it for the first time in ages only to be put off by too much/too little tension! Thanks again mate!

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome Korasi I'm glad you found the reviews useful If I was you I would try both the light and the normal gauge strings out and see which you prefer the feel and sound of. Strings, just like guitars are a very personal thing and every guitar reacts and plays differently 😊

[@Kevinhay0330]

love your video, I have zero knowledge about guitar strings because I just start to learn playing guitar all by myself. your video is super helpful for me.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome Kevin I'm glad you liked it 😊

[@cosimosanfilippo9050]

I still think your review is important and well done. Usually changing strings on a guitar is like a water melon like, hard to pick the set that suit a guitar and your review helps a lot thank you for that.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thank you Cosimo I'm glad you liked it and found it useful 😊

[@sonofromel]

I'm glad somebody is talking about nylon strings. I used to go hard tension all the time when I was like 17-24 years old. Gauge 11 and 12 for electric. Then I mangled my hand(I'm fine now). Now I play lighter strings 9 standard and 10 whole step down. On classical however I play normal tension which is easy enough to play. I was thinking about light tension but from what I remember, they were too soft and too difficult on the right hand so I'm kinda hesitant. Thank you for the great content.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Hi Rom, glad to hear your hand is okay now. You do lose a little bit of volume with the D'addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Strings but it's hardly noticeable on a good quality classical guitar and they are really easy to play if you have a lighter touch. I wouldn't recommend them for flamenco or hard strumming but they are fine for fingerstyle and classical Let me know how you get on with them 👍

[@sonofromel]

Thank you for the reply. Very much appreciated. My hand's much better. I can do boxing/muay thai no problem. I agree that volume isn't much of an issue. But my right had to adjust. I need to get used to it, I don't play flamenco but some modern pieces on classical requires you to play harder. Sforzando for example. I fell in love with lighter gauge specially on electric. The clarity is unbeatable and it still sounds big. I like to use as light as I can get away with without it being too flimsy. I'm not switching back to heavy gauges just because I don't wanna lose the clarity. I'll just have to learn how not to fret too hard when I'm really into it haha.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

@@sonofromel Ha Ha! I think you'll be fine with the D'addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Strings they're much softer to play but certainly not flimsy 👍

[@h0tage299]

Thank you very much for your review sir. Greetings from switzerland ;)

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome Gabriel I'm glad you found it useful 😊

[@idanieltorres5304]

Awesome, one of the sounds you played sounds like "algo contigo" by Andrés calamaro

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Yes it is 😊

[@jarrilaurila]

For several years i have had 13 set steel strings on my minitaylor and it really needs some force, but on my classical guitars i some reason like light tension much more. I just bought new classical Taylor and might change to these strings right away. On my main guitar D'Angelico i use 11 or 12 flatwounds and cant even play rpundwounds any more.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Hi Jarri. Yes I prefer a lighter gauge strings on my Taylor Academy 12e-N Nylon String Guitar but I use 12-53 Phosphor Bronze on my parlor acoustic guitar. The shorter scale of the parlor makes the light gauge strings feel like extra lights 👍

[@jarrilaurila]

@@AlanRoyHocking I have to agree. Light tension got unexplainable sweet feeling and i really think i focus more on my phrasing with lighter touch. My Academy 12n should arrive tomorrow and cant wait to try it out!

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You'll absolutely love it!

[@cosimosanfilippo9050]

You are a great player, and you have a quality guitar , but those string make your guitar sound like a two bob guitar... I don't like those strings at all.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Yes the string tension is way too low for this guitar

[@jacksparrow761]

Can i put them on a classical guitar?

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Yes absolutely Jack they're classical guitar strings 👍

[@josephpetrino1741]

My experience with these strings was not good. They sounded very good for 12 days and then started to get dull. By the 15th day they were dead and unpleasant sounding. Just my 2 cents.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thanks for your feedback Joseph it's always good to get other people's experience as well 👍

[@rosegrace5762]

Hello Alan, I dont know much about classical guitar strings, I mainly play electric and acoustic with metal strings. I have a question, what kind of strings do I need to tune higher than E standard? Is it low tension strings? What do uou recommend?

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Hi Rose, I wouldn't recommend tuning a classical guitar higher than standard E tuning because they are very delicate instruments built with much lighter bracing and designed to vibrate/resonate with low tension nylon strings. Tuning them higher will put extra tension on the neck and bridge and could end up breaking the whole guitar.

[@A-G-F-]

This are the strings i want! Low tension, super warm, awesome basses and not crazy expensive, the only downside is that G string... Thanks for the sound test!

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome Fernando I'm glad you found my review of the D'Addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Nylon Guitar Strings helpful 👍

[@BestCartoon]

Please help me ! I' am a flamenco style fan I play something like falsetas bulerias solea entre dos aguas pharaon So i most learn lot of flamenco technique like alzapua rasguado golpe tremolo and the hardest one for me is picado Im playing in a bad guitar without a amplificateur Which tension i must use for 2 conditions : 1- learn picado and make it fast and easy 2- get a sound that you can listen to if there another guitar playing the backing track i hope you understand my bad english And thank you

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Hi, A lot of flamenco players use the D'Addario EJ45 nylon strings but if you want more volume and a better attack I would advise going for harder tension strings like the D'Addario EJ46 or even try Carbon Strings like the D'Addario EJ46FF I did a review of them here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnvImn2uiceHldU Hope that helps 😊

[@BestCartoon]

@@AlanRoyHocking thank you 😌😌😌

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome 😊

[@BestCartoon]

Sir What do you think about Savarez CJ 500

[@AlanRoyHocking]

I've not tried them yet so I can't give a personal opinion on them but Savarez make great strings and are very popular amongst the Flamenco community here in Spain 👍

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

What about EJ51 Semi Flatwounds?

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thanks for the suggestion Mr Stern. I see they're recommended for recording. I'll add them to my list to try 😊

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@AlanRoyHocking They're great for recording (along with the Lightly Polished/Flatwound Composite Core Strings). You can also use them for Jazz because Jazz players prefer Flatwound Strings.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@AlanRoyHocking They Should make Ball end versions of these Strings.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thanks for the info Mr Stern they're top of my list to try next! 👍

[@AlanRoyHocking]

@@RockStarOscarStern634 Absolutely! That would certainly make life easier for those of us who hate the time it takes to change the tie end nylon strings 😂

[@svetit10]

Thanks💫

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome 😊

[@Gloppp]

Great review and I am going to try them on my acoustic as I am more of Shawn Lane, Frank Gamble, shred guitarist and I run the Ernie Ball Zippy Slinky 7-36 on my electrics. Thinking about trying the carbon strings too, and again great post! Thank you

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it. let me know how you get on with them 👍

[@davesaenz3732]

Awesome playing. 🎸. Do they have ball ends?

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Thanks Dave, no these are tie ends the only ball end nylon strings that D'Addario do are the EJ32C's I did a review on them here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXeWl6uqac6dqZo

[@davesaenz3732]

@@AlanRoyHocking Thank you. 🎸

[@AlanRoyHocking]

@@davesaenz3732 You're welcome 😊

[@wayne6339]

Thanks for the review. Very useful. I just bought these for my Cordoba C5

[@AlanRoyHocking]

You're welcome Wayne I'm glad you found it useful. Let me know how you get on with them 👍

[@wayne6339]

@@AlanRoyHocking I will Alan. I find that the hard tension strings are just difficult to play. I had an inexpensive Yamaha guitar that came with low tension strings and I always found that guitar very easy to play. But I sold that guitar and moved up to the Cordoba C5 which comes with hard tension strings. I'm going to put these EJ43s on the C5. I'll let you know how they feel and sound.

[@AlanRoyHocking]

Perfecto! 👍