Any tips as this is doing my head in because after 5 minutes the string won't play properly as its made a grove in my index finger!!
soft finger
When I started playing 2 months ago my fingers went hard, I Then went away for 1 week since not playing for that 1 week my index has gone soft and won't harden up, i play for at lease 2 hours aday and play 5/6 hour on saturday and sunday but still it won't go hard again.
Any tips as this is doing my head in because after 5 minutes the string won't play properly as its made a grove in my index finger!!
Any tips as this is doing my head in because after 5 minutes the string won't play properly as its made a grove in my index finger!!
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Guitar - Sore fingers - Occupational hazard
if you always take the lazy route
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Just keep playing. They'll harden up. I go through the same thing all the time.
I get so wrapped up in recording other instruments that the guitar gets put aside for a couple of weeks. Then it's time to play again and it hurts like hell for a few days.
Once you get playing again you'll start noticing skin peeling away on your fingertips cause you shredded em up... you pick it off and it heals and hardens underneath causing callouses... a week later you can tap your fingers on a table and they make a clicking sound.
Do a ton of bends and slides, that'll get em whipped up pretty good.
I get so wrapped up in recording other instruments that the guitar gets put aside for a couple of weeks. Then it's time to play again and it hurts like hell for a few days.
Once you get playing again you'll start noticing skin peeling away on your fingertips cause you shredded em up... you pick it off and it heals and hardens underneath causing callouses... a week later you can tap your fingers on a table and they make a clicking sound.
Do a ton of bends and slides, that'll get em whipped up pretty good.
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Originally Posted by: extra_strongI am always fileing mine.
I've done this too...although that was to remove the fingerprints... ;)
Like schmange and Edm say, it's just a case of keeping playing and removing the skin as it flakes, it'll soon harden up again. Filing can work, but I'd recommend you wait until they have hardened up a bit and you can't actually feel much on the tips; guitar's painful enough without inflicting more pain on yourself!
On a side note, I do love that "thunk" you get from those fingers on table tops...
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I should have been a bit more clear I went away 6 week ago the rest of my fingers are fine and done exactly what you have mensioned with the flakey skin and stuff. my fingers arn't sore its just my index finger won't harden which is now 6 weeks on. someone told me to put my fingers in viniger 10 minutes before I play each day for 1 week . Has anybody tried this. Its bad enough when you fingers smell of fish I don't think I fancey viniger. hehe
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