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Originally Posted by taylorcc
Do check your action, especially at the nut. If it's easier and less painful to barre when you have a capo on, you need a setup.
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Isn't it normal that it's more easier to play the guitar when capo'd?
Anyway, the only area that's hurting is the side of my index finger, and to some degree, my fingertips, however, that's because of me recently buying a steel stringed guitar while I've been playing a classical ever since I started. Maybe I'm still adjusting to the fact I'm playing on a steel stringed, not a nylon stringed. Just before I bought the steel stringed I thought my classical had too high action. Now it feels like it's way too low.
Can't you build some kind of pad/callus on the side of your index finger? Because it seems I nailed the "technique" but I can't sustain it for that long... For example, I start playing an easy song with only barre chords (fyi, Use Somebody by Kings of Leon) - It starts out great, but it gradually starts to buzz because I can't hold it for any longer due to the pain.......