I started a few days ago and play a few hours a day. How long should it take?
2007-08-31 23:40:06 · 10 answers · asked by JarJar Odd 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
If you can play for a few hours a day, you are either in pain or you don't have a problem. Callouses usually form within a couple of weeks and there may be some blistering, peeling and discomfort in between. Nylon strings tend to lessen the discomfort for beginners, and playing several times a day for short periods of time seems to do it for everyone else. Look at the impressions that the strings make across your fingers when you play as well. If the dent is going more or less straight across, then you have a good hand position. If the dent is diagonal, then you are working too hard.
If you just started and you are playing a few hours a day however, you may be working too hard. I know what that first love feels like, and I know what a rush it is to master those first chords and riffs, but when you practice for extremely long periods of time at first, it tends to break down into repetition. If you are practicing mistakes, then you are reinforcing the wrong things. Slow down just a little bit, get together with a good teacher or mentor, and make sure you are working smarter not harder. Don't hurt yourself. Guitar is supposed to be about the joy, not the endurance of pain.
2007-09-01 03:41:25 · answer #1 · answered by MUDD 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It depends a lot on how much you practice and the guage of your strings. If you play an acoustic guitar with heavy strings for one or two hours a day, your callouses will form more quickly than if you play an electric guitar with thin strings for a couple minutes a day. Overall, it should take weeks or months, probably not days.
2007-09-01 13:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Its usualy needs some times, BUT! if you want it to become hard in no time You need to do a practice, not just playing, try to play chords like Am 002210 - E 022100.. get them up and down fast and press on the strings as hard as you can, and when you feel some pain, add the pinkie for Am to let goes as A MAJOR 002220.. and for E to be E7 022130.. this will help you ALOT! its pretty easy to do, and it will make your callouses hard like steel, once you feel it, upgrade to barre chords, to let your pointer finger side having callous
2007-08-31 23:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For some people it takes days.. When I played, it took a few weeks. Then you stop playing and it goes away,When you plan again, the callouses come back faster. than the original rate of formation .
2007-09-01 00:12:33 · answer #4 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best answer here, the best way to get calluses out of the way, start with acoustic guitar and then move to electric, acoustic guitar is the reason I am able to play electric guitar. I know it doesn't make sense now but you will see what I mean.
2015-12-19 01:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by kreepykidd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-27 20:20:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you play every day, around 2 - 4 weeks
2007-08-31 23:42:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Calluses should form within the first two weeks if you are faithful in practicing. The best method is to form the F chord (133211) and clamp on and off--even moving up the fretboard using the identical chord formation.
You must not grow callous to form the calluses.
2007-09-01 01:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
a long time
2007-08-31 23:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by morningstar6707 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Uh oh mine started right away! whats wrong with me:-(
2007-08-31 23:43:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋