Play as long as your fingers are putting up with the stress, stop when they get sore, and recommence when they've regenerated. The longer you do this, the longer the playing sessions can become. Learning to play the guitar when you've only used a keyboard before, is akin to starting to ride a bike when you've only driven a car before. SALE TODAY: Learn Piano on iOS http://bit.ly/PianoAppSaleLike us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MahaloGuitarFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ The quick answer is that you should press down just hard enough to make the note sound clean and clear. If you press too hard, the note will sound muffled or buzzy. If you don’t press hard enough, the note will sound thin and weak. A great tip is to get closer to the fret and press down just enough that the string and said fret make contact. 160. 160 of 261 guitar players had pain from playing. That's over 50% of guitar players reporting pain from playing. 61% !!!! In a different study on 520 guitar players, 81% reported pain and problem from playing guitar. All that pain and problem falls under the guitar tendonitis -dynamic-. Just the above two studies show that 61%-81% of guitar [Verse] Bm D E Bm D E Bm I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel D E Bm D E Bm I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real D E Bm D E Bm The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting D E Bm D E A Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything (Bm G D A) x2 [Chorus] Bm G D A What Have I become, my sweetest friend Bm G D A Everyone I Welcome to my "Hurt" Easy Guitar Lesson by Johnny Cash. We will learn the picking pattern, easy chord shapes, chords & lyrics and everything else you need to play it. This song is great for In this guitar lesson I show you to play Hurts So Good by John Cougar Mellencamp. I show you the guitar chords, strumming, riffs and licks. If you don't kn Create and get +5 IQ. "It Hurts Me Too" Intro (same as verse + chorus) [Verse] E You said you was hurting, Almost lost your mind, A And the man you love, C He hurts you all the time. [Chorus:] E When things go wrong, B Go wrong with you, A E A7 E B7 It hurts me, too. [Verse] E You love him more When you should love him less. Mark Peotter plays 2 sections from the Nazareth version of "Love Hurts" on lead guitar.He explains and demonstrates using the E-Bow. A brief history of the Guitar Wrist Position, Technique, Pain, Fatigue & Tension: Top 5 Tips to maintain health and prevent tendonitis or carpel tunnel. Being self taught, I've pic iNVh.