Sensitive Tip

How erotic.
My guitar *cough* skills *cough*, like so many others, are self taught. Up unto this point, I believe that I've had lazy fingers with wrist attachment. I discovered this yesterday when I finally tried to play with my new "F" work around. Instead of getting that nice solid sound from a string, it sounded like it was vibrating against tinfoil. Not a pretty sound. My hypothesis gained further merit when I was playing the oh-so-simple Good Riddance. I was happily strumming along and it happened again. At first I thought I simply wasn't pushing hard enough or close enough to the frets. I had recently changed strings to some Martin 80/20 Bronze light acoustic strings. Maybe this was the source of my new found problem, because it certainly wouldn't be anything I was doing.
I started cascading my strums a little more, to see where the problems were coming from, which lead to a two fold hypothesis. The pair of my lower gaged strings and the improper finger pressure created ungodly sounds. While I could be lazy with my older strings, these new strings actually require me to use the tips instead of the (for lack of a better term) balls. Since changing to the tips, sounds have been more pure, but the downside is that new pressure that's place on my wrist. It's just something more to get used to, which will probably lead to the ability to play barre chords a little better. We'll see what happens.