Question
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Any hints on how to break-in the fingers on my left hand? I am
in major pain after about 20 minutes of practice. Someone suggested
switching to flat wound strings?
Answer
Are you talking about pain in the tips of your fingers or in
your hand and arms? If you are talking about the tips of your
fingers, the best thing is to develop calluses on the entire surface
of your fingers( all 4 ). After you are finished playing for the
day, irritate the entire surface of your fingers by pressing down
on the strings with different parts of your finger. Sometime when
your are just playing normally you will develop a callus on only
one part of the tip of your finger. There for when you are playing
and do not hit the callused part of your finger it is painful.
Not to say that irritating the entire surface of the tips of your
fingers will not be painful at first .... but it will help your
playing since pressing down on a hard surface ( the callus ) takes
less pressure that a soft surface. Not pressing as hard my help
prevent other pain and or injury.
I would not suggest flat wound strings unless you have a hollow
body electric, and are playing traditional jazz. The sound and
feel is not appropriate for other styles of music.
Also see the lesson based on this question
Playing
Guitar is a Pain in the …Part 1
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