Low/high strings

I was banging away yesterday -- trying hard not to, of course (see last post) -- when it occurred to me that it might not be how hard I'm hitting the strings that distresses me, but which strings I'm hitting.

Digression. It's hard to talk about which strings because the small strings, those that play "higher" notes, are the strings lower down across the instrument as you play. So if you say "low" strings, it's ambiguous between the position of the strings and the notes they play. I'm gonna try to say "high-note strings", etc. to keep it unambiguous.

Certain chords mean skipping over some of the low-note strings and I'm usually pretty good about watching out for that.

I think that I've gotten in the habit of hitting the (other) low note strings and missing some of the high-note strings though. Maybe I'm obsessing or worrying overmuch about it, but maybe my strums are, hm, "truncated", and don't reach all the high-note strings all the time.

I tried working on this yesterday and things sounded pretty good.