I usually practice several hours a day and it seems the callouses on my fingertips have developed grooves in them. This creates a problem becasue when I move up the neck to like the 15th fret, my hand has to rotate and the grooves aren't lined up right. The strings naturally move to the grooves and that makes my fingers not in the ideal position to prevent buzzing or dead strings. If they are right on the 17th fret then when I move to say the 3rd fret, then I end up having to lift up my fingers are reposition them so the strings will "fit the grooves". Even my teacher said yesterday "You got that string twisted and it sounds different" but I wasn't twisting the string so to speak, the string was "in the groove" and was twisted because of the position of my hand.
I don't think I am pressing too hard. If I'm playing on the 17th or 18th fret, I have to press hard to get the sound that far up, at least on my banjo I do. I have read other posts where the replies recomend the touch should be "light as a feather" and all that, but that just doesn't make the notes on my banjo.
Anyone else have this problem? What should I do?
1) Take a break for a week or so and see if the grooves go away
2) Soak my fingers in hot water to try to re-form the callouses without the grooves
3) Try to sand off the grooves
4) just ignore it and deal with it.
