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bhagwan
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bhagwan
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Joined: 06/18/09
Posts: 15
06/17/2011 7:36 pm
Hey all,

Loving working through the lessons on here. Relatively new to guitar - have 4 years of weak practicing under my belt but have started hitting it hard for the last few months. Working through the "rock 1" lessons here and am having significant trouble with the barre chord arpeggios. In specific, I am finding my hand is killing me after about 3 minutes of practicing them. I feel I have to put lots of force behind clamping my hand down in order to get the single notes to ring true.

I'm wondering if this is expected, if there's some technique I can try, or if it's just a matter of building up strength. Honestly right now it's pretty brutal - I worry about carpel tunnel and such.

Any thoughts would be welcomed!