Members exhaust_49 Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 Rest your fingers for a few days but keep up playing. Sore fingers happens to everyone when there new and trying to build up calsious (sp?).
Members nylon rock Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 Mine are usually sore on Sunday, too. The weekend is catch up time for guitar playing, hence sore fingertips. Already have the callouses.
Members Sweb Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 No remedy outside of Mother Nature. She'll put some padding there as she sees fit but you just gotta keep reminding her by playing on.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 ...where does it hurt? Oh, the tips. Practice.
Members recordingtrack1 Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 For a dedicated player the trick to dealing with sore fingers is learning not to mind.
Members DutchSatriani Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 stop being a little bitch about it and just play:thu:
Members Misha Posted May 14, 2006 Members Posted May 14, 2006 The pain will go away! You should rest, though, when it hurts too much!
Members Tony Burns Posted May 15, 2006 Members Posted May 15, 2006 My friend we all have been threw it , it will give you callouses overtime and eventually it wont hurt - just take a break every now and then because your a new guitarist -- congrats on the initiation ceremony !!
Members dboy420 Posted May 15, 2006 Members Posted May 15, 2006 i have read that superglue on your fingertips can help. Sort of builds a fake callous.
Members Queequeg Posted May 15, 2006 Members Posted May 15, 2006 "I got blisters on my fingers!"-Abbey Road
Members Freeman Keller Posted May 15, 2006 Members Posted May 15, 2006 Originally posted by eroom What is the best remedy? Play some slide
Members rockfan Posted May 15, 2006 Members Posted May 15, 2006 Take a break for a couple of days. No pain, no gain.
Members hockey_musician Posted May 16, 2006 Members Posted May 16, 2006 dont break! it goes like this: sore, sorer, sorest, not sore at all. suck it up:thu:
Members Eppito Posted May 22, 2006 Members Posted May 22, 2006 Soak your fingers in cool or tepid water, dry afterward, and then apply rubbing alcohol to the fingertips. The alcohol dries the tips and helps in the build up of calluses; a little trick that Leo Kottke came up with.
Members d03nut Posted May 22, 2006 Members Posted May 22, 2006 Reminds me of a joke: Kid goes to his dad: "dad, dad, I just had sex today for the very first time". Dad's all proud, his boy's finally becoming a man. So he says: "that's great son, come sit here by my side, tell me all about it". Boy says: "can't.... my bum's still sore". Sorry for the thread-jacking, more sorry for the lame joke, etc. My point: some hurts are good for ya........
Members Gretsch Fan Posted May 23, 2006 Members Posted May 23, 2006 Knock that off do3nut! LOL Seriously, you first learn to play through it and eventually a combination of not caring and callouses. Once in a while I will play so much that I can feel it but for the most part it has passed. You can't rush the time so play through it.
Members jackwr Posted May 23, 2006 Members Posted May 23, 2006 d03nut, your a sick pup! keep up the good work. eroom, I tought myself to enjoy the pain. My callouses have been built up for years and after long sessions I still get sore fingers. This usually only occurs now (for me) during Bluegrass Festivals. When picking north of 8 hrs a day, about the second day I feel some twinges and by time I leave pain enough to not want to play the mandolin. Barely get by on the guitar.....then I know I played enough and got my money's worth out of the fest.
Members Gretsch Fan Posted May 23, 2006 Members Posted May 23, 2006 Originally posted by jackwr d03nut, your a sick pup! keep up the good work. eroom, I tought myself to enjoy the pain. My callouses have been built up for years and after long sessions I still get sore fingers. This usually only occurs now (for me) during Bluegrass Festivals. When picking north of 8 hrs a day, about the second day I feel some twinges and by time I leave pain enough to not want to play the mandolin. Barely get by on the guitar.....then I know I played enough and got my money's worth out of the fest. North of 8 hours a day two days in a row. Yea I bet you feel that. Sheesh. Tough stuff.
Members jackwr Posted May 23, 2006 Members Posted May 23, 2006 Originally posted by Gretsch Fan North of 8 hours a day two days in a row. Yea I bet you feel that. Sheesh. Tough stuff. I'm not a natural so I gotta work at it hard to make any gains. At 50 (2 years ago) I finally realized practice works...got a lot of catching up to do. After a 3 or 4 hour jam I'll go back and drill what I messed up for a couple of hours, eat then the night session. It's my mid life crisis and I'm sticking to it. Instruments and festivals are a whole lot cheaper than property settlement!
Members theGOOCH Posted May 26, 2006 Members Posted May 26, 2006 Now that I've been seriously playing for a few months every chance I get I've developed some heinous calluses on my fingertips. I've been weightlifting for 19 years (with no gloves) and my guitar playing calluses are bigger than my weightlifting ones. Sometimes I have to cut a little off because the strings get hung up on the rough edges. Does that happen to anyone else?
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