Fingernail care for classical guitarists
A brief description of how to improve the health of your fingernails for fingerstyle guitarists
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A brief description of how to improve the health of your fingernails for fingerstyle guitarists
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my nails are the good fingernails…. strong, hard but the only time im having fingernail got problems are when the school’s discipline teacher force me to cut =.= and playing bowling lol haha thx for the infos
weird my dad just bought me cod liver oil capsules and my index has a bad fault line! hope it works!!
I gave up fingerpicking (steel string guitar) after 15 years on & off, because my nails developed “fault lines”, always in the same place, & split – I’d file them right down & let them grow out, but the problem always came back. I gave up & used a plectrum. Then I started taking 1 gram fish-oil capsules for the health benefits. After a few months I happened to notice there were no more nail splits & I’ve been picking ever since. Maybe a weird co-incidence but the stuff is good for you anyway.
did anyone tried carlos’s super nail videos? would you really put your nails on UV light ?
nice
1) Olive Oil
2) Soak nails in raw egg 10 minutes
I don’t speak english very well so i have 2 questions: 1) What is the product that he uses to aovid getting his nails dry? and 2)I didn’t what he says in the ”second part”…He does something 3 times a week about 10 minutes each, but can’t understand what it is…PLEASE help me!
3 times a day, thats a little crazy? I know some are really into caring for their nail but cant you just get press-on?
Thanks for the tips. I got your link from “Sakari”. I’m a couple months into his lessons. I must admit it’s not too exciting listening/playing to a metronome for over an hour each time. I am “getting to know the metronome”, but better yet, I think I getting some results.
–Van
clear nail varnish works fine for me. i try to avoid any manual tasks with the index finger and this helps
Thank’s for the helpful tips.
My best, Don
Does the book talk about fingernails shaping? if not would you plis post some tips about shape and length¿?
Wow!
Great tips! Great video!
I learned a lot. I will get a copy of that book and recommend this video. Thanks a lot, Jeff! It’s great to hear your voice, too!
Take care,
Julie
Some interesting tips there, thanks very much. I’ll try to pick up a copy of the book.