Do You Ever Break Strings??

[Biggbass]

so far I'm batting a thousand with bass strings. been playing bass since '68 and
have never broken a string.
Guitar strings are a different story though.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Love this!! Haha, I'm breaking a string about once every three or four months, which is good because it's a reminder to get fresh strings on! It's all in enthusiasm and plucking technique, (for better or worse). Playing heavier music with fingers, I like to accentuate certain notes by plucking down into the bass body, the string slaps off of the fretboard and gets a killer tone through an overdriven tube amp (Steve Harris plucks like this a lot). My singer calls it the "gank", gankin' on the strings to get that dirt! Gankin' the soul right out of the strings!

Love playing hard, fast and heavy!

Steve Harris plays extremely lightly but with super low action.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

Been playing since 1963. I've broken 2 strings. One because of a saddle burr, the other from trying to tune too high.

 

[bikeplate]

Never

 

[Barbaric.Eric]

Steve Harris plays extremely lightly but with super low action.

When you play telephone wire action you have to gank it hard to get that fretboard clap

 

[Muttleybass]

My Ric used to eat strings for breakfast. Always at the bridge (Hipshot). My Stienberger will snap them at the bridge once in a while. For some reason, my MM Sterling has yet to break a string in 3 years.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

When you play telephone wire action you have to gank it hard to get that fretboard clap

i hear you my action used to be sky high, because i wanted the fretbuzz sometimes; not all the time, and i played super hard, with inflexible picks, with the biggest strings i could find. i now play lightly, with fingers, as low as i can without the string choking out when i dig in (which i would have thought was "ultra light touch" ) back in the day

have not broken a string since i started back up @ 6 years ago.

 

[spanndrew]

Not yet. But it's only been 3 years.

 

[socialleper]

I have only ever broken a string once while playing. It was a lighter set of Slinkys and I snapped the G while slapping. That was 15 years ago and it hasn't happened since.
I had the inner core of a Circle K .140 break at the peg after I had unwound and rewound it too many times. That's my fault and not the string's.
My strings usually take months to "die" as well. Most of the time the croak from being exposed to high temps in a case before they die from me playing. I'm pretty lucky with strings.

 

[DavC]

none , never ... since 1973 ish

i've had a few guitar strings ( E or B ) break ... but never on bass ..!?

 

[HolmeBass]

Not as much recently, but yes, I do sometimes break a string. Perhaps counter-intuitively, I break the A string the most, then the G second most. I cannot recall ever breaking an E string though.

 

[vmabus]

I broke an A once tuning the D by mistake. I kept turning and it was still flat, then "Twang!"

 

[MoeTown1986]

I've broken 2 strings in my day. One was a D string (DR Fat Beam) and one was an E string (DR Neon). I stopped playing DR's, never had the issue again.

 

[daniel sanchez]

only time I ever broke a string was because I kept tuning and winded it way too much... still cant believe that even happened...

 

[Planespotter]

I've never broken a bass string in 23 years of playing. I have a pretty heavy right hand and sometimes hit it extra hard for intentional fret buzz as well. I rarely use a pick or slap though. I've broken A lot of guitar strings though, but none since probably 2000ish.

 

[MonetBass]

I have never, ever, broken a bass string---and I've been playing since 1981.

What are you doing to your bass that causes strings to break?

Neither have I, and I've been playing since 1978. Typically that would be a faulty string or burr on the witness point at the bridge that would cause that.

 

[El Pelusa]

I used to break E and A strings when I used to use a "big stubby" 3mm pick. Now it's very rare that I break a string. Still happens occasionly though!

 

[Charlzm]

I have been playing since 1982 and I have broken exactly one string. It was in 1986.

 

[Big Hoss]

Only strings I ever broke were GHS Bass Boomers that had been in the package for about a decade before I installed them... I simply installed them, brought them up to pitch, checked intonation, played for about 10 minutes and POW, string broke. Happened twice. Since then I switched to D'Addarios and have been break free.

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

Broke my g string when tuning higher....
It was a 5 string standard gauge set and it just snapped