It just occurred to me that if you play the guitar and touch-type, you have slightly conflicting demands of your fingertips.\u00c2\u00a0 For guitar, you want your left (fretting) hand fingertips to have thickly calloused skin so that you can play longer without worrying about bruising from the strings.\u00c2\u00a0 If you play classical or fingerstyle, you probably want to have longer fingernails on your right (plucking) hand so you can get a sharper, clearer tone.<\/p>\n
Yet for touch typing, it helps me to feel the keyboard, so I can find the positioning bumps on the home row and feel when I’m hitting keys at their edges so I can reposition.\u00c2\u00a0 Good tactile feedback and sense helps me adjust to differently-sized keyboards faster too.\u00c2\u00a0 Calloused fingertips don’t feel the keyboard well, and fingernails might even prevent your fingertips from touching keys.<\/p>\n
hmpf. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It just occurred to me that if you play the guitar and touch-type, you have slightly conflicting demands of your fingertips.\u00c2\u00a0 For guitar, you want your left (fretting) hand fingertips to have thickly calloused skin so that you can play …<\/p>\n