First music camp for bass.

[superstringist]

So I have been playing bass for 2 years and havnt really gotten much consistant playing yet until I went to a music camp that had a jazz ensemble as one of its classes. Pretty much for an entire week I had to play bass for 2 hours streight everyday, not to include the other little gigs the camp had to offer. by the end of the second day I had a blister on my index finger, so I had to use my middle finger exlusively for the third day. At the end of that day, my middle finger had a blister. What to do!? The next day I played with my ring finger because my other fingers were in lots of pain with band aids and true skin all over them, and what do you know? that finger got a blister by the middle of the day and I used my pinky until the end of the day, and that developed a blister. As you can probably guess, on the fourth day of camp I was using the side of my thumb the whole day, and the blister formed. On the last day of camp I had a blister on each one of my fingers making it super painful to really play my bass at all, so I had the ingenius idea to play with the very tip of my thumb because only the side had the blister on it. I did this for half a day until, goshdarnit, there was my 6th blister!!! Unfortunately the camp concert was the next day and I had to go through that concert with a pick, which I had never used before on the bass, and it just felt wrong. I never thought it would be possible to have more than 5 blisters on one hand, but I proved myself wrong.
I guess the morale of the story is, keep practicing to keep your calluses up, or you might be like me, walking around with my fingers all bandaged up.
Luke