I've been playing real steady for almost 3 months now. I average 1 hour a night of practice and take a couple hours of lessons with an old Chet Atkins style finger picker friend of mine every week. He's 65 and sometimes he doesn't remember what it was like when he was first starting. So I need some input from people that are a little closer to when they were beginners
My questions is, do your fingers ever stop hurting??!! I have pretty good calluses built, they're not rock solid yet, but they're real firm. After about an hour or so my fingers start hurting and if I play for 2 hours or more they REALLY start throbbing and hurt too bad for me to keep playing. I figured this would have gone away by now, like I said I've been playing for 3 months regularly. Do your fingers always hurt like this, or will mine get stronger?
Thanks,
-Joe