Recent content by TheChicken

to avoid tendinitis, you need to strenght up the muscles of the area that it's affected. Not like Hogan, but a little work out on that particular muscles should be fine.

Hey everyone, I'm kinda a newbie, don't have much experience on playing and I thought that I could start learning this technique, but I'm worried that this thing get on my way of things that I should learn before. So, it's good to start learning this from the beginning and appplying it to...

Great advice! Going to start practicing this (I'm a newbie myself) to get my ear well trained

Go to the doctor as soon as you can. You should not do anything without consulting a specialist. Wrist pains are serious things if you're not able to play anything without feeling hurting yourself.

The only secret is to practice, but I think that what you're looking for *or at least what you should look for* is endurance, as my teacher says. I practice a lot of right hand, up and down movements (just starting) and he makes me not to pluck the strings too hard.

I'm on the exact reverse position, I'm learning guitar and bass at the same time now. Kinda newbie, 6 months on bass. And it helped me a lot in my finger strenght for playing the guitar. It is great have the dexterity of a bass and put that into the guitar, which will be my second instrument.