It is fun, but there is only a certain amount I can use my hands before I get RSI on any given day.
Might be worth experimenting a bit with finding more comfortable ways to play. Lots of people (including me) can play the guitar for many hours every day with no problems. But it’s hard for a teacher to tell from outside what’s crampy and what isn’t, you need to rely on your feelings for this.
I do want to +1 that there is a lot of variation in right-hand-position space. For fingerpicking, my training has always been to pluck from the knuckles, which are the strongest and biggest joints in the finger, and never from the joints nearer the fingertips, which are much weaker and tire faster; nor to hook one’s fingers under the string but to simply push past the string. (In case thats helpful.) Might take some time to adjust to any new playing pattern.
As with exercising any part of your body, there’s a difference between tiring your hands out (which is healthy) and hurting them (which is painful and damaging). There should be no sharp pain.
Might be worth experimenting a bit with finding more comfortable ways to play. Lots of people (including me) can play the guitar for many hours every day with no problems. But it’s hard for a teacher to tell from outside what’s crampy and what isn’t, you need to rely on your feelings for this.
I do want to +1 that there is a lot of variation in right-hand-position space. For fingerpicking, my training has always been to pluck from the knuckles, which are the strongest and biggest joints in the finger, and never from the joints nearer the fingertips, which are much weaker and tire faster; nor to hook one’s fingers under the string but to simply push past the string. (In case thats helpful.) Might take some time to adjust to any new playing pattern.
As with exercising any part of your body, there’s a difference between tiring your hands out (which is healthy) and hurting them (which is painful and damaging). There should be no sharp pain.