• Registered: 2007-12-13
  • Posts: 27

Topic: For All You Virgin Fingers..It Does Get Better

I was reading some new topics and found a familar theme..."my fingers are killing me"...Well up until a month ago I haven't played an entire song in over 20 years....I too had the bad fingers...What I did...I started playing until they began to hurt..then quit...the next day or next session..I tried to extend my time buy 5 minutes each time I would play...Lord and Behold..As I said...It's been just about a month and now I can play for about an hour and a half before I can feel any discomfort now...So it does get better...Hang in there guys & gals...all the hard work and ice water on the fingers will be a distant memory!!! It took 30 days for me to realize I missed the previous 20 years of not playing...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

  • From: Utah, USA
  • Registered: 2007-11-26
  • Posts: 15

Re: For All You Virgin Fingers..It Does Get Better

I agree.  I got my first acoustic Nov '07 as a birthday gift.  I have been playing every day since and I have successfully gotten past "my fingers are killing me!"  I do have to admit that I have trouble picking small items up (coins or picks) with my left hand, my fingertips have lost some sensitivity with the extra skin thickness!

  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: For All You Virgin Fingers..It Does Get Better

Just wait till you try bass, you get extra calluses on your two right hand plucking fingers...

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