M2M Day 127: My fingers are covered in blisters
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For March, my goal is to play a 5-minute blues guitar solo.
Today, I sadly needed to take the day off from playing guitar. My hands demanded it.
Here’s what happened: Previous to March, I casually played the guitar once in a while, mostly strumming chords. Then, all of a sudden, March begins and I start aggressively bending the high-tension fishing-wire-thin metal strings over and over again with my left hand and continuously plucking the same strings with the index finger of my right hand (I don’t use a guitar pick).
As a result, disgusting blisters have blossomed on half of my fingertips, which make it very painful to play the guitar.
I’ve actually been playing with these blisters for the past three days, but today, my fingers were just too sore.
I googled “How to quickly heal finger blisters from playing guitar”, and the most common advice I found on forums was “Just keeping playing until they bleed…eventually you’ll stop getting blisters”.
I don’t think I’m hardcore enough to follow this advice, so I’m just going to take the day off and listen to some music instead…
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