MY FINGERS HURT!!!

We all go though it, after about 7 days callouses start to form and the  pain goes away (it does honest). One thing I was taught and is a great tip:

Pick an easy cord and strum. Then keep taking pressure of your finger tips while strummming. You will soon find out that you need nowhere near the pressure to make the chord sound true. Make sure your fingers are just behind the frets, other wise more pressure is required.
White spirut will also dry out your finger tips and toughen them up.

It really does goe away, mine were agony for around 2 weeks. Then seemed to clear up over a period of just 2 days.

This is where you'll find out if you want to be a guitar player or not. Man this thread is bringing back some old memories of me learning to play a C chord, G chord, Am chord.......It hurt like hell but I couldn't put it down. The callouses will come and eventually a lighter touch so keep at it.

Remember.....Practicing is Fun,
Jack

Before too long you'll be able to pick up boiling cups of coffee without any trouble at all.....s'all part of the joy!!

C chord? How about the "F" chord? Why do you think it's called that ! Ah, the memories of many, many calloused moons ago !

Thanks for your advice........you don't even want to know what I was practicing on. You know the little tiny Discovery first act acoustic guitars. The ones you can buy in the toy section. Yeah my daughter is 4 and it fits her perfectly! I really.... REALLY... wanted to start learning though and that was all I had. My dad just bought me a real guitar though and I can already play four songs!! My fingers felt better the next day after changing guitars. I am practicing about an hour a day, but they still feel better than before.

I always found if I pressed really hard on the thinnest strings E / B my calluses would get a bit harder faster... then again after putting my fingers thru that pain it never hurt as much anyhow