Ricardo -> RE: Right-Hand Sore Finger Problem (Mar. 8 2008 2:45:11)
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I would say too much resitance is pulling your nail away from the nail bed. All your ideas are probably right about contributing factors...age, way of playng too hard maybe, nail length. Not sure if you put glue or acrylic on, but that would be part of the problem too, because if the nail is too stiff, your skin gives away first. OK, my advice is to get used to much shorter length, but at the same time you need to make a proper angle or shape when filing, so you don't have resitance. Not sure which of your techniques is causing the problem, but we can rule out rasgueado I hope (except index upward...ouch!). So if it is mainly picado or arpegios doing it, then I think nail shape will help. We have talked about that in past on here so you can search the archives. It is not easy to describe, you need to experiment a bit. But when you do techniques, you dont' want to "feel" your nail going against the strings, rather the string slides off a ramp, so you really feel the string with your finger tip. You don't want the string to dig under nail and tug at it, and also, with a flatter shape to the nail (less round, not litterlly "flat" of course), you get a crisper sound too. So it can work out for you. In the mean time, my friends who get the same tears sometimes from hitting their acrylic nails or catching them when strumming too hard up wards, they put Krazy glue on the wound and squeeze it together. That closes it up so it can heal faster and they can still play, though it will still hurt and you should take it easy. Ricardo
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