>>Okay, back to practice for me - want to try and get at least an hour in every day. It's the only way the fingers are going to toughen up.
Try ramping up your practice times. An hour a day (esp. if you've got a steel string guitar) may hurt more than a little, and set you up for a nice mental block towards practicing more.
My guitar teacher starts people out at "just five minutes a day" at home (given that most of his students are first-timers, have JUST bought/borrowed a cheap guitar, and aren't too sure about the playing-music thing, other than 'this could be cool'). This gives them a chance to build up muscle memory in the fingers ... build up caluses on the left hand (and oh was typing fun for me when the caluses first built up).
After a little while you'll end up playing, practicing on your own, looking at the clock and wondering "damn, where'd those hours go?" ----
re: the high E string ... Is this a) a new guitar or a previously-owned one? ... b) if previously owned, are the strings new?
Sounds either like an old string that's starting to demand retirement, or a new string that hasn't stretched into place yet.
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Date: 2006-01-13 09:57 pm (UTC)Try ramping up your practice times. An hour a day (esp. if you've got a steel string guitar) may hurt more than a little, and set you up for a nice mental block towards practicing more.
My guitar teacher starts people out at "just five minutes a day" at home (given that most of his students are first-timers, have JUST bought/borrowed a cheap guitar, and aren't too sure about the playing-music thing, other than 'this could be cool'). This gives them a chance to build up muscle memory in the fingers ... build up caluses on the left hand (and oh was typing fun for me when the caluses first built up).
After a little while you'll end up playing, practicing on your own, looking at the clock and wondering "damn, where'd those hours go?"
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re: the high E string ... Is this a) a new guitar or a previously-owned one? ... b) if previously owned, are the strings new?
Sounds either like an old string that's starting to demand retirement, or a new string that hasn't stretched into place yet.