Hope the pain goes away soon so you can get back to playing! You can always try 9 gauge electric strings on your acoustic - the tone will be a little ...

Assuming that there is not actually a problem with your hand that playing the guitar simply brought to the surface, let's take a look at some things.....

I agree with the above. Slow down. It's not sloppy because of the picking pattern, it's sloppy because you're not playing it well. Changing the pickin...

One question to ask is are you wanting to become proficient in the guitar in general, or just for a specific style, such as blues that you mentioned? ...