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03-08-2007, 05:03 AM
| | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, California. | | | No callouses formed after 4 years?
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no callouses have formed on my right hand, ever... why? i dont know.
I play 2-4 hours a day, every day for four year. Its extremely rare for me to miss one day of practice. My fingers shred apart, if i practice / play more then 3 hours in one day the next day i cant play more then 20 minutes... I can play about 2 hours a day with no severe pain, but at the end of the day / show my hands deff need a rest...
Any idea what i can do for this? i dealt with it for years but NOW its becoming a problem... wanting to play more and more every day and its really getting in the way.
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03-08-2007, 05:14 AM
|  | Lone Wolf and Renagade Miner | | | | | I know this sounds funny but do you do dishes,because that kills my fingertips,it softens them up alot.
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03-08-2007, 06:16 AM
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Try this: get Tower of Power - Funk The Dumb Stuff. Practice it non stop, at normal speed, for 30 minutes straight. If you dont have callouses after that, you're an alien. |
03-08-2007, 06:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Connecticut | | | I was asked to play accoustic guitar at church for a few months while a player was away. After practicing on a fairly high end accoustic guitar for 4-5 days my left hand callouses began to form much faster than they ever did on the bass. Im sure that this is related to the string size, the chords, and overall change in technique.
Perhaps practicing on a guitar would assist your callouses as it did for me. |
03-08-2007, 07:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rock Hill, SC | | | An old-school upright player told me to use Tincture of Benzoin. Look for it at a pharmacy that might be likely to have prosthetic supplies, it toughens the skin on amputations. |
03-08-2007, 07:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | No calluses is fine...I've been playing for a lot more than four years and don't have any.
I had a problem a while back and my hands were falling apart from playing too. I had to tape up my fingers and glue them shut to get through gigs and 3 hours on stage was like torture.
I went to the doctor, and he gave me a steroid ointment that cleared it up in about a week. It was prescription, so stronger than any cortaid type stuff but I also then took the time to work over my technique and learn how to play with a lighter touch. No problems since.
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03-08-2007, 07:28 AM
| | | | Damn, I must really play too hard cause I get my weekly callouses... |
03-08-2007, 07:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Leesburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FretlessArt  I was asked to play accoustic guitar at church for a few months while a player was away. After practicing on a fairly high end accoustic guitar for 4-5 days my left hand callouses began to form much faster than they ever did on the bass. Im sure that this is related to the string size, the chords, and overall change in technique.
Perhaps practicing on a guitar would assist your callouses as it did for me. |
I have played guitar for years and just took up the bass last October. Practicing daily and playing fairly often at church I ended up basically with no callouses. I hadn't played my guitar for months, picked it up and in a week the callouses were forming. The thinner strings seem to cause the callouses faster, at least for me. I don't know if you play guitar or have in the past but if you play it a little I think it helps.
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03-08-2007, 07:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | My playing has lulled a bit since I left my last band. But my calouses aren't really tough rough hard dry skin. They are softere and deeper than when I was playing acoustic guitar
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03-08-2007, 10:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Sandy Eggo, CA | | | What kind of strings do you use?
Steel will rought you up a lot more than nickel.
If you really want to get serious of it, try the Elixir strings. Pretty easy on the fingers.
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03-08-2007, 10:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | | I've been playing for almost 5 years, very regularly, and I've had my callouses for a while. What I found out what that the best way for me to build up my callousses was to play through those blisters that show up.
They eventually pop and the new skin that gets formed is somehow made tougher, as if my body knew and started "armoring up" my fingers to prevent further blisters.
But doing that never really hurt me. That's one thing you have to be careful about : if it hurts, stop, cause something's wrong.
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03-08-2007, 12:07 PM
| | If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Harrow, London, U.K | | | i used to have callouses, then i stopped playing with such a heavy technique and they just went away, my finger tips are still slightly hard but i dont mind putting moisteriser on them or getting them wet or anything like that. it ends up being lower maintenance that way.
maybe try lightening up your technique or giving lighter strings a go.
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03-08-2007, 02:30 PM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fretless Bob i used to have callouses, then i stopped playing with such a heavy technique and they just went away, my finger tips are still slightly hard but i dont mind putting moisteriser on them or getting them wet or anything like that. it ends up being lower maintenance that way.
maybe try lightening up your technique or giving lighter strings a go.
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03-08-2007, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | I had a little wear on my fingers when I first started playing, but in 6-7 years, I have not had any real callouses, not have my fingers been torn up. Of course, I am a mechanic as well, so my hands are generally tough. Where I have callouses is my palms and at the bases of my fingers. Also, there are slight ones at the joints of my fingers.
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03-08-2007, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | Why would you WANT callouses if you can play without them?
I dont know, I play a lot and I don't get callouses. I also don't get shredded fingers. I just have nice thick skin (still soft though) on my fingertips, perhaps they are light callouses :O
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03-08-2007, 02:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by theshadow2001 My playing has lulled a bit since I left my last band. But my calouses aren't really tough rough hard dry skin. They are softere and deeper than when I was playing acoustic guitar | +1, A different type of callous altogether, IMO. |
03-08-2007, 02:54 PM
| | "Is our children learning "Is our teachers teachin | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Joplin,Missouri | | | Ohh man the worst is when you r on the road and playing non stop for weeks and you get those blisters under the callous
That really sucks!
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03-08-2007, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA | | Never had callouses before, skin shreds a tiny bit, but not enough to stop me from playing. Going on 4 years now, I think I might be an alien. 
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03-08-2007, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by eric atkinson Ohh man the worst is when you r on the road and playing non stop for weeks and you get those blisters under the callous
That really sucks! | I've had that before, it does suck you cant do anything and it really hurts to play. Gotta wait till they harden though. |
03-08-2007, 03:08 PM
| | "Is our children learning "Is our teachers teachin | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Joplin,Missouri | | | But that rarely ever happens. You gotta be playing all the time for that.. I have played for 23 years and now they r tough but no what i would call callused..
I had to go to a Dr. and have one drained one time because it was getting infected...
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