what can i do. it hurts when i press the strings really hard. Im playing my dads acoustic guitar, im getting an electric for my birthday prob. next week. i hope the electric is better. that acoustic is killing me, BIG neck, hard to press strings and barely any sound. i played viola for 6 years. i always got blisters but im getting tired of it. and i could really jam on viola, i played rock songs on it and it had my class mates wowed.
You just have to play through the pain all beginners fingers hurt when starting out, the guitar is on of the most physically demanding instruments, eventually u will build up callouses on your fingertips and you'll be somewhat immune to the pain.
For beginners I would recommend if your into rock and what not, that u learn power chords and bar chords, and major minor chords. check out tabs sites like ultimate-guitar.com to learn some songs as well. then learn some easy scales, pentatonic scales are good for beginners.