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09-09-2006, 07:50 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas TX | | | I have a constant slit in my index finger nail from slaping
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In the miidle of my finger nail, there is allways a break in the nail. Its very annoying. Im constantly having to get some clipers and, even, the nail off.
A little growth in the nail, and a little more slap bass, and its broke in the middle again.
Anyone elese experience this, and is there a solution ? |
09-09-2006, 07:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | from slapping???
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09-09-2006, 08:22 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas TX | | | I guess it would be from the poping. Not the thumb slaping, but the poping of the index finger. |
09-09-2006, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | | Well I don't recall my nails ever touching my strings when I was doing popping. There's probably something wrong with the way you lift your string and let it drop back on your board.
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09-09-2006, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | yea.. i think its a technique review needed for you...
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09-09-2006, 12:22 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | You might have to take a break and just let it heal if it's annoying you that badly. I don't do slap/pop, but maybe just the pressure on your index finger is enough to make another crack. |
09-09-2006, 12:38 PM
| | born lefty | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ashland, Oregon USA | | | band-aid product
Band-aid makes a product called skin crack gel. The stuff works? Put it on two nights and your problem will be gone.
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09-09-2006, 02:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | I habitually bite my nails, never have had a problem, keeps 'em nice and short and outta the way 
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09-09-2006, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Sounds like a technique issue or really long fingernails....hmmmm...
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09-09-2006, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NC | | | super glue in the crack, and keep filling it every few days, as it grows outor the glue comes out. Eventually the crack will grow out all the way out, unless you have damage to the nail bed, in which case you may always have a crack there.
I may have little or nothing to do with playing bass, it may just be your nails. The glue really will work, though, give it a try |
09-13-2006, 09:50 PM
| | | | i think you are using your index finger for the pop so the nail is getting stuck and pulled. use your wrist more. just sit there and work on it. eventually you will get it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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