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08-31-2009, 09:30 PM
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I decided to try to play bass with my knuckles. However, it hurts like hell and I was wondering if there was any real reason to do this and good ways to learn? |
08-31-2009, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Orange County | | | i dont see how it would have any advantages over fingers
actually, i see no reason why to play with knuckles anyway...
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08-31-2009, 09:34 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | It took me five times to read the title to realize you weren't talking about playing your bass with brass knuckles.
But why would ou play bass with your knuckles? I don't think I could get a sound out of mine, much less a bad sound.  |
08-31-2009, 09:57 PM
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I decided to try to play bass with my knuckles. However, it hurts like hell and I was wondering if there was any real reason to do this and good ways to learn?
| LMFAO!!
Seeing as how you are probably the only person on the planet to have tried this, why don't you tell us if there is any real reason to attempt playing this way? LOL!
All kidding aside, kudos to you for thinking outside the box, but the instrument is challenging enough for me without out trying to invent ways to hurt myself.
I would probably cease and desist before you saw off an important finger.
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08-31-2009, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Portland Oregon | | | So let me get this straight, .....your punching your bass?
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09-01-2009, 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by cynical-rabbit I decided to try to play bass with my knuckles. However, it hurts like hell and I was wondering if there was any real reason to do this and good ways to learn? | My friend your knuckles are joints and therefore a weak area wherever they are on the body. Normaly skin over a joint is thin and the joint has a sheath to protect the skin from being worn away by the movement, in other words friction. I would think it would only be a matter of months before damage is done and maybe years till it is permanant, depending on who often you do it.
I know we have the skill to replace hip and shoulder joints as they are a ball and socket joint, but a knuckle is a hinge joint, a different proposition. So my advises don't do it as it will cause PERMANANT damage. |
09-01-2009, 03:21 AM
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09-01-2009, 03:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ballaarat, Victoria, OZ | | | With enough practice you'll get a great tone. The trick is you have to punch really hard.
Please post a youtube video of your progress. |
09-01-2009, 03:53 AM
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09-01-2009, 04:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: London, England | | I find playing with my elbow far more satisfying. Great tone! 
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09-01-2009, 04:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | | This technique is not unknown. Musicologists consider it to have originated in central Asia, most likely Kzyrgyistan. Commonly called "knuckle dragging," its practitioners typically utilize pickup covers and body-colored headstocks for optimal tone. It's all out there on Google®.
Good luck on your journey.
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09-01-2009, 04:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: london | | | please post a video so I can see how retarded you look doing so |
09-01-2009, 04:38 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | This is the only sort of "knuckle dragging" that I was aware of :  
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09-01-2009, 04:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | ^^^ Whatta cutie! Let's call him "Bongo."  |
09-01-2009, 05:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dayton NJ | | | Knuckles, huh?
This reminds me of Mark ( The Animal) Mendoza, bassist for Twisted Sister. I must have seen the 100 times during my college years. 1979-1982. The Final Exam, a bar on Route 10 in Randolph NJ was our hangout. Mark would play the bass with his fist, knuckles, forearm, whatever he could get near the strings. Quite entertaining to a buzzed 19 year old.
Ken R
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09-02-2009, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Fergie Fulton My friend your knuckles are joints and therefore a weak area wherever they are on the body. Normaly skin over a joint is thin and the joint has a sheath to protect the skin from being worn away by the movement, in other words friction. I would think it would only be a matter of months before damage is done and maybe years till it is permanant, depending on who often you do it.
I know we have the skill to replace hip and shoulder joints as they are a ball and socket joint, but a knuckle is a hinge joint, a different proposition. So my advises don't do it as it will cause PERMANANT damage. | Dammit. I have no real reason to do it anyways... I was just kinda bored.
Back to fingers. |
09-02-2009, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by cynical-rabbit Dammit. I have no real reason to do it anyways... I was just kinda bored.
Back to fingers. | Aww, don't give up just yet! Try it! I wanna see what damage you do! Um... As in where you get! 
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09-02-2009, 11:50 AM
| | | | Great for tapping on the frets...you'll build knuclecallosuses in no time...just keep 'em slim, slim!! |
09-02-2009, 03:27 PM
| | | | It does make some cool tones, maybe I'll keep at it till I saw a finger off. It doesn't hurt after I play....
Slapping is overdone, I need something new. |
09-03-2009, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken R This reminds me of Mark ( The Animal) Mendoza, bassist for Twisted Sister | Beat me to it: Ive seen the Animal at work- he will make a believer out of the knuckle unbelievers | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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