Hello Sammy,

I'm in the same position you are in currently. I think we even bought the same pack (is yours also the Ibanez GRX70 in black ?).

One thing that helped me a lot was changing the strings on the guitar. I replaced them with D'Addario XL Super Light Gauge strings (.009 - .042 as written in the manual) EXL120-3D. It's a lot less painful to practive chords with them.