Naren
OldschoolGhettostyle
So I've been practicing for about 40-50 minutes about every day on the Rusty Cooley lesson video thingy-mabobber I got off Chops From Hell.
I've been playing guitar for seven - almost eight - years now and I don't recall having experienced this before. I'm to practice each exercise for 5 minutes straight and I do that, with only short few second breaks to raise the tempo by 10bpm, starting with 16th notes around 130bpm and moving up to around 170 or 180bpm. Well, my right hand is no problem whatsoever. It's just alternate picking everything no problem, but the knife edge of my left hand starts to hurt LIKE FUCK. I mean, seriously. But I just keep ignoring it and pressing on, the ache building and building. Some of the exercises near the beginning aren't that tough in regards to this, but when I do certain exercises, it just hurts like crazy. One exercise, I actually end up not physically being able to play at all after a few minutes. At the beginning of the exercise, it just hurts. Near the end at around 170bpm or so, the knife edge of my left hand is throbbing and I can't even move my pinky. After the entire exercise is done, if I look at my left hand, the knife edge looks like a bulging tumor. The right knife edge is small and flat, while the left knife edge is bulbous. If I stop playing guitar, it generally returns pretty close to normal after 30 minutes or so later.
So, is this normal? I would assume it is, but I've been playing for - like I said - over 7 years and, while I focus mainly more on rhythm, I've studied lead guitar all throughout that time (starting with jazz, blues, and rock lead, then a few years later just classical stuff, and then more recently metal), but never very much. I don't think I've ever sat down and just played lead without stopping for 5 minutes like I am now, which might explain it. So what happens? Will the muscle there built up after a month or so and stop hurting? or will it still hurt even after that? I've been doing the exercises pretty much every day for the last 2 weeks and the pain and aching seems to be the same as it was 2 weeks ago. I've never heard any other guitarists ever talk about this before.![Shrug :shrug: :shrug:](/images/smilies/shrug.gif)
Any info would be appreciated.
I've been playing guitar for seven - almost eight - years now and I don't recall having experienced this before. I'm to practice each exercise for 5 minutes straight and I do that, with only short few second breaks to raise the tempo by 10bpm, starting with 16th notes around 130bpm and moving up to around 170 or 180bpm. Well, my right hand is no problem whatsoever. It's just alternate picking everything no problem, but the knife edge of my left hand starts to hurt LIKE FUCK. I mean, seriously. But I just keep ignoring it and pressing on, the ache building and building. Some of the exercises near the beginning aren't that tough in regards to this, but when I do certain exercises, it just hurts like crazy. One exercise, I actually end up not physically being able to play at all after a few minutes. At the beginning of the exercise, it just hurts. Near the end at around 170bpm or so, the knife edge of my left hand is throbbing and I can't even move my pinky. After the entire exercise is done, if I look at my left hand, the knife edge looks like a bulging tumor. The right knife edge is small and flat, while the left knife edge is bulbous. If I stop playing guitar, it generally returns pretty close to normal after 30 minutes or so later.
So, is this normal? I would assume it is, but I've been playing for - like I said - over 7 years and, while I focus mainly more on rhythm, I've studied lead guitar all throughout that time (starting with jazz, blues, and rock lead, then a few years later just classical stuff, and then more recently metal), but never very much. I don't think I've ever sat down and just played lead without stopping for 5 minutes like I am now, which might explain it. So what happens? Will the muscle there built up after a month or so and stop hurting? or will it still hurt even after that? I've been doing the exercises pretty much every day for the last 2 weeks and the pain and aching seems to be the same as it was 2 weeks ago. I've never heard any other guitarists ever talk about this before.
![Shrug :shrug: :shrug:](/images/smilies/shrug.gif)
Any info would be appreciated.