Will my fingertips ever stopping bleeding?

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well they're not really bleeding, but for the past four days I've played untill they were red raw and blistered. How long before I can play four an hour or more each day without pain?
 
Are you playing acoustic? I might lay off a bit until the callouses come around. If you're still hurting then, you might have some nasty frets on your guitar.
 
Yeah, a very bad acoustic, Epiphone FT-120 Circa 1977. I pickup my new guitar tuesday.
 
they're still gonna get hurt, take a small break to let em heal up a bit from their "shredded" state and start playin again the only thing that would help is just to go through the pain until calluses build up
 
the tips will get hard among other things, just grin and bear it. ;)
 
Sounds like you are new to guitar, don't rush it, the pain will go away. As allready said; take a break for a few days to let your fingertips heal, the pain is really from bruseing and only time and practice will get you past it. When you resume playing start out slowly, 15 or 20 minutes at a time and build up a few extra minutes each week over a couple of months.
you not only have to build up callouses, you have to develope a slight tolerance to pain and overall strength and endurance in your hand and wrist.
After practice you might want to try soaking your fingertips in warm (pretty warm but not quite hot) water for a few minutes, I suggest this to my students and most report that it helps.
Hang in there, the pain does go away.
 
Dani Pace said:
Sounds like you are new to guitar, don't rush it, the pain will go away. As allready said; take a break for a few days to let your fingertips heal, the pain is really from bruseing and only time and practice will get you past it. When you resume playing start out slowly, 15 or 20 minutes at a time and build up a few extra minutes each week over a couple of months.
you not only have to build up callouses, you have to develope a slight tolerance to pain and overall strength and endurance in your hand and wrist.
After practice you might want to try soaking your fingertips in warm (pretty warm but not quite hot) water for a few minutes, I suggest this to my students and most report that it helps.
Hang in there, the pain does go away.
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I command thee to keep playing !!!!!!!!

no pain no gain !!!!!!!!!! blood is the sacrifice for many things, especially guitar.
 
Give 'em a rest for a day, then see how they feel.The pain should go away over night. Just keep practicing, and you'll be able to poke your fingers with the cut-off end of the high E string with out any pain.
 
I played at an art gallery today... my fingers started to bleed during it.
 
sometimes they'll get numb after the pain and you won't feel it until a few hours later. the pain comes and goes even after years when the tips are leathery like mine.
 
patlang12 said:
I played at an art gallery today... my fingers started to bleed during it.
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was it a classy art gallery where you had to play some classical or a funky small gallery where you could play Lou Reed?

:)
 
junplugged said:
was it a classy art gallery where you had to play some classical or a funky small gallery where you could play Lou Reed?

:)
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Well I could probably play some wierd stuff... but I kept it mostly in the bluesy jazz area.... they want me to come again so I guess I played the right stuff....
 
Fast callouses

Or you could build up callouses fast like I did by starting with my older brother's cheap guitar that my mom got him using trading stamps (remember those? this was a long time ago). The action was so bad just pressing the string to a fret caused it to go out of tune (like bending). Anyway, after two weeks the callouses were set pretty well and shortly after that I upgraded to an Epiphone accoustic.

So practice every day and the callouses will come before you know it.
 
I can't help but practice everyday, no matter if it hurts, I can't help myself, I've become obsessed. Hopefully the obsession lasts more than a week or two. Already the pads are getting "leathery". I can't tell if they're anymore impervious to pain because right now the pain is constant. But I can't get my self to lay of long enough for them to stop hurting. I just don't have time. Less than Seven months till I gotta hang with players like Scrubs, DTB, Joro and Jerry.
 
VTgreen81 said:
I can't help but practice everyday, no matter if it hurts, I can't help myself, I've become obsessed. Hopefully the obsession lasts more than a week or two. Already the pads are getting "leathery". I can't tell if they're anymore impervious to pain because right now the pain is constant. But I can't get my self to lay of long enough for them to stop hurting. I just don't have time. Less than Seven months till I gotta hang with players like Scrubs, DTB, Joro and Jerry.
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I'd also avoid anything that soaks your left hand in hot water immediately before playing. Hot water temporarily softens your calluses. It's how I get out of doing dishes right before a rehearsal. ;^)
 
Try a drop of Krazy glue on each finger tip that hurts. Just make sure it dries before you try to play :D
 
I've played some long jam sessions where my finger tips hurt...no problem with the skin...just the fleshy part between the skin and bone. It may hurt for a few days. I'd lay of playing for 3 or 4 days (maybe longer) to heal up.
 
I say play through the pain, its nothing that will cause permanent damage and you'll have better callouses for sticking with it. I too started out on a cheap acoustic with bad action, and I think I'm better off from the experience.

p.s. the play through the pain moto doesnt always work, if you have pain in your wrists then you definitely should take a break.
 
let your fingers heal for a couple of days. if you give your fingers some in between time to heal, the initial painful stage will be alot shorter. also, spend a little time each day analyzing how hard you are pressing down on the strings and if your fingers are sitting just behind the fret. newbs tend to use way too much force.

use the in between time for stuff like music theory, singing, smoozin with your girl friend.

i can feel ya though. i paid $8 (can you say "high action") for my first guitar and my fingers hurt like hell!
 
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