How not to develop calluses when playing guitar?

July 21, 2010 by admin · 7 Comments
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pandora asked:


I just started playing guitar. My fingers are almost bleeding. I’ve heard from different people that with time you’ll develop calluses. Are there any covers for the fingertips or something so my fingers don’t hurt and don’t get calluses?

When you start to play guitar, are your fingertips supposed to ‘crack’?

May 14, 2009 by admin · 5 Comments
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Kupcake asked:


I’ve started to play guitar a while ago and I get that you need to develop callouses etc. but are your fingers supposed to crack? Because the tips of mine where I press the strings down onto the frets are quite literally cracked. What can I do to like.. heal it and does every guitar players’ fingers’ crack????
Steel stringed acoustic guitar - not the indents, its just like the skin on my fingertips has cracks in it :S If that makes sense to you

Can you play fingerstyle guitar without long nails?

February 16, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments
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JarJar Odd asked:


I like fingerstyle guitar quite a lot, but I seriously don’t want to have long nails, is it possible to achieve the same result with the fingertips?