in the comments how much would you sell your right pinky [Music] [Applause] for how to build up calluses for guitar playing I only have one finger that doesn't have calluses do you want to guess which finger it is that's right it's my right pinky my right pinky is the most worth there's only one thing my pinkie is good for sorry didn't mean to kick you it's for stabilizing things that I'm holding that's literally the only thing I use my pinky for I would gladly sell that pinky [Music] for I was going to say 500 bucks but I actually don't want to do that uh I would gladly sell this pinky for 10 billion doar I would I would be kind of sad about it I would rather not sell it but if push came to shove I would sell it for 10 billion well I'd S no if we're being honest half a billion I'd sell that finger okay wait now I have to really think about this $500 million million i' sell for $250 million I forget what this tiny Tuesday tip is about oh it's about building calluses so okay what I was going to say is if I push on the Frets with any of my fingers I'm like a piece of cake Easy Peasy I could do this all day just like Captain America but if I take this finger and I push on any fret it starts hurting immediately like it excruciating pain it just goes to show that those calluses make a big difference because goly G whiz there just no callous on this finger because I don't use it for anything that was the point that was the whole thing about selling it for a quarter billion dollars which I don't use this pinky for anything except I already showed you don't show them again they already saw it okay so of course the answer to the question how do you build calluses for playing guitar is you just you just play a lot you just keep playing that's the only way to actually do it and if you're not doing that nothing else is going to help but I do have some auxiliary tips for you to help you build up calluses more effectively efficiently and quickly tip number one is repeat the same movements a bunch of times in a row it's sort of like lifting weights I think like you end up putting more something on the muscle if you keep doing the same thing a bunch right I think that's how that works so here's what I'm trying to say if you have this little lick that you're trying to thing do thing do can't even get her to rectum if there's a little part of a solo or a little EX exercise that you're playing take like a tiny little snidbit of it and just play that one part over and over and over again if you're learning a solo and it has a little thing like this in it just play that little lick a ton of times in a row 30 times in a [Applause] [Music] row watch TV while you're doing it just do it over and over and over and you don't need to be plugged in you can just sit there and go your fingers are going to start Hur hurting and that means it's working so just take a tiny little piece and repeat it over and over and over again on the contrasting flip side of that is make sure that you are doing that repetition on multiple different a variety of different things because the places where you're going to build calluses doing this are different spots than you're going to build calluses playing open chords which your different calluses you're going to learn from playing power chords you don't learn calluses you build calluses take a tiny little thing repeat it a bunch but also make sure that you are doing that with a variety of different techniques okay great guys my next little tip for you when you are trying to build calluses quickly work your fingers to where you almost get blisters but you don't actually get blisters like when your skin starts turning red and you can feel they're getting really tender but you have not built C blisters yet um stop give your fingers a break maybe for the rest of the day if you do give yourself blisters that's okay you're still going to build calluses pretty quickly good for you you're working really hard I'm proud of you but the blisters can like they can do like too much damage to your fingers and they can get like a little infected and stuff and then and then it makes it so you can't practice as much for the next few days because you like you try to fight through the pain of playing with blisters but it's it's really hard to do so do not feel like you have to get blisters to build calluses you want to get right up to the cup cusp of a blister and then you just try to stay right there you just try to stay right on the cusp of a blister as long as possible this one's the worst tip but if you have a high tolerance for pain and you don't mind being frustrated and humiliated then put like heavier gauge strings on your guitar and you'll build B calluses faster I wouldn't use actual heavy gauge strings because that's just like sheer punishment and it can actually do Dam damage to your guitar especially if you're playing an acoustic guitar but if you put like medium gauge strings on your guitar it's going to be harder to play but you will build calluses quicker should I have started by saying what calluses are at the beginning of the video no because I actually don't know what calluses are I mean it's like thicker skin but I don't know why and I don't know is that skin like dead Is it alive I don't know how calluses work all right here's an anti-tip for you this is what you do not want to do when you're trying to build calluses do not coat your fingertips in super glue do not put tape on your fingers do not use any sort of protective gear for your fingers they're just going to prevent you from building calluses you are much better off taking a break when your fingers are in pain than putting things on your fingers to to diminish the pain from playing guitar like I I think some people people sell like little like caps for your fingers to like just don't just you just got to okay I have a question I was going to say don't you just need to Raw Dog it but I don't know if raw dog always means what you think I think it means or if it only or if it can in the comments if I say always raw Dogg it when you're playing guitar is that okay or is that not okay you know what I mean well I already explained it I just wanted to say that cuz I thought it'd be funny all right you you can use hand lotion though if you just have like regular hand lotion keeping your hands moisturized and hydrated it's the same thing I think I don't know question is is moisturizing and hydrating the same no because if you drink water you hydrate yourself you're not moisturizing yourself okay wait this is a good idea I going to say oh man guys I got to stop by the gas station quickmart and grab some gator so I can moisturize myself this is good I think I'm on to something here [Music]