Re: Index Finger Pain - Left Hand
How long have you been playing and do you practice consistently every day? I think it's a matter of building strength/endurance and callouses slowly and practicing barre chords, 4 finger chops and other things that make you spread the fingers. To do so, you have to turn the palm towards headstock or away from headstock to make the reaches, depending on what you're fretting. Play with strap on so mando is always in position and if you can get a video up, that's the best diagnostic. So many variables
In the meantime, you can use light gauge strings, low action, tune down a half step, or even remove one string per course to practice your relaxed fretting action. and picking softer/less vigorously seems to encourage a less clenched left hand.
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