the one fingered revelation

[jordie65]

last week while i work i received a nasty cut on the pad of my second finger on my left hand (im a lefty)
At band practise today the cut still hadn't healed so i was plucking with just one finger.
the difference in my playing shocked me!!
with only one finger i had to think so much more about which notes to play during fills. the result of this was fewer notes...but those notes i chose felt like they had more impact on the song.

has anyone else had a similar experience where they have been forced to change their technique for whatever reason and noticed such an instant positive change?

[cnltb]

Sure.
Bein forced to "make do" can lead to quite "enlightening" results.

[The Ethanator]

i had a massive piece of skin torn off of my pointer finger on my right hand (in a bizarre bus seat incidednt involving an immature classmate and a french horn case), right where i had a calouse built up from playing a few months ago. i was irritated at first, but then i learned to compensate by building up the muscle in my ring finger so i could still pluck with 2 fingers. now that my finger is healed, i can play 3-finger runs alot better than before. theyve actually become an integral part of my writing style

[zao144]

I broke my hand and just played with my fretting hand. My fretting hand is alot stronger now. So breaking my hand actually helped my playing.

[Din Of Win]

Sometimes i log into TB for the thread titles alone.

I hope my mind stays in the gutter as long as possible


To the OP, i broke my hand on the second day of a 2 month tour. I just taped my pinky to my ring finger and taped a pick between my thumb and pointer finger. I ues to play with lots of wrist movement but since that was a no go i played with almost all shoulder and elbow movement trying to keep my wrist ast steady as possible. It wasn't optimal, but even now i still find myself using my shoulder and elbow way more than i did before hand(lol pun).