Recent content by Vevy

Update! I got no pain playing on this blood blister, that was actually a scab, because playing the surface layer of the callus-skin has been "scretched" by the strings and 2 days ago after playing I noticed that the dark spot was anymore on my fingertip :D Thank you again guys ;)

I tried to pop it with a needle, but I don't feel like do it :S I'm already using tea tree essential oil, I'll try to soak the blister into water & salt too. For now I'm avoiding to press the strings directly with the blister.. let's see how it goes :) :bassist:

so you guys tell that I can keep on playing anyway? that's a great thing to hear! well, then I start again to play by this afternoon, and will see how the blister "behaves" the next days... Thanks a lot :)

what do you mean with "You will wear your way down to it eventually" ? sorry but I'm not english and I don't understand this last part

3 weeks ago I got this blood blister on fingertip of the index of my fretting hand, now it's 3 weeks that I don't play my bass becasue I don't know what to do with that blister! For the frist 4-5 days it was hurting, now is two weeks that the pain it's completely gone, is not inflated at all, is...

in fact I play a lot by ear, sometimes I write whole tabs (without searching online tabs at all) by myself just listening to the song (if I find the bass only track is better), but I write them down just to remember them better, I think that it develops anyway my ear, isn't it?

In effect the songs I'm learning are from Iron Maiden for the most part, maybe they are not so easy..at least for me they are not, I don't know if are considered easy or difficult. You all are right about don't rely too much on tabs, I have already seen that most of the times some parts are...

maybe I got a wrong leaning technique? I know a lot of riffs but I can play only 2 songs decently for their whole lenght along with the track, and I have been playing bass for almost a year. There are some hand positions I find very simple to learn, but there are some patterns that are really...

I found some sites where to buy music sheets, but to buy you got to have an account. The thing I don't understand is why should I insert my address if the tab is in PDF, or at least I think is meant to a PDF file to download, and not paper sheets they send you at home.. I want to be sure that...

I followed your suggestions, I lowered the action and set the D and A a bit higher than E and G, now there is a little bit of arc, but just a tiny bit. Now remains the buzz issue. I like a low action, but even if I lowered it a lot remains alway too high, and also frets from the 12° on buzz. But...

the strings have no arc, are all at the same height. And further if I low the action like I want, some frets after the 12° buzz. I read that for the arc of the strings I should loosen the truss rod, but for the buzz I should tighten it, so what should I do? I'm a bit lost..

I need some tips about how to change the strings, since I never changed them yet. I already read a lot about that and watched a lot of videos, but I still have doubt about a couple of things. First, since I have to take off all of the strings in order to be able to clean the fretboard...

I'll talk about that in another topic about strings change, maybe it was off topic here

ok, finally today I bought the new strings, the gauge of each string is 45-65-85-105. They seems to be a little thicker than my current strings, hope that it will not be too heavy, the bridge rip off thing scared me a little :hmm: I will put them on saturday so I have all the time to make the...

both very nice basses, it was just to know in case I'll want to take one of that instead of the regular P, but I don't know, the regular P fender is always the regular P fender :P