According to singer-songwriter James Bay.
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James Bay is having a good year. The English singer-songwriter released his first album, Chaos and the Calm, in March, won the Critics' Choice Brit Award, and nabbed a highly coveted spot opening for Taylor Swift on the European leg of her 1989 world tour. Before all that, however, Bay was just another Stones-obsessed teenager with a hand-me-down guitar. He taught himself to play by strumming along to his favorite records and developed his back-to-basics sound in the process. Now that a new generation of guitarists are learning their craft by noodling along to Bay's music, we invited the Hitchin-born singer (and his beautiful D'Angelico EX-59) to stop by our offices in New York and talk to us about everything aspiring guitarists should know.
1. Your fingers are going to hurt.
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James Bay: Callouses are your friend. Your fingers are going to hurt a lot, for a long time. The pain will go and the pain will come back and you'll think it will never go again. For a long time you just feel like it's never-ending agony.
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