Blood on strings

As a matter of fact, yes:



It will dull the strings, but not enough to worry about.

Rock on!

 

That's a combination of:

1.) New Roto's
2.) A good groove
and
3.) Poor slapping technique.

 

umm....do you slap by...flicking the strings with your pointer finger or something??~?/ if you slap with your thumb..how would you bleed...there??~??

- w00t

 

wait..that is your thumb...LOL wow sorry..but still..how did you bleed right THERE??~??

- w00t

 

I once cut myself from using too small of a pick that made me bleed all over the strings like that. But I was in a metal band at the time so it made me look cool . I do remember it leaving a stain but I don't think the sound was affected too much, at least not enough to notice.

 

I think Brian Adams did that back in the Summer of '69.

 

No actually I think it's his right index finger.
possibily from flam'in or pop'in.


Fingers bleed from time to time.
Just try not to pick your nose with that finger

 

Slapping with the thumb, but popping with my index finger as bottom5 indicated . It is the downward motion when I'm reaching for the D string that the top of my index finger was scraping on the G string. Like wise if I were reaching for the A string with my index finger to pluck it, the top of my index finger would scrap on the D string.

 

I've never managed to get my fingers to bleed but this one time my buddy Kev rigged the G string off during a show just cuz he was getting into it and he must've gashed his finger open cuz the next thing I know....it looked like someone was stabbed to death and thrown on his bass......heh..he's kept the stains on his bass cuz he claims that it gives it a meaner look.

 

-on an ol' six string, too.
must have been a Carl Thompson or Fodera.
or a Fender Bass VI.

 

My solution for avoiding nasty injuries to the top of my fingers (caused by aggressive pops) is to cover the area just above the fingernail with a layer of Johnson and Johnson bandage tape. You can buy rolls of it at any grocery store or pharmacy. Check out this photo to see the taped top of my fingers in action...

http://www.theparamours.com/115BourbonStreet/DSCN0336.html

http://www.theparamours.com/115BourbonStreet/DSCN0332.html

http://www.theparamours.com/115BourbonStreet/DSCN0304.html

Lonnybass

 

LMAO, pure genius!!!!!

 

Me too. Actually, I wasn't even using a pick, I mainly played with my fingers but there was one part of a song where I would just pick with my fingernail. I remember leaving the blood that was all over my bass there for the next show as like a badge of honor or something and then later came to my senses and cleaned it off...

 

When I first started playing, I screwed up the joints in my middle, ring, and index fingers from playing too much. I couldn't move them for about a week. SO i learned to play with just my thumb. Slap/pop, even. I got pretty good at it, but when my fingers healed, it seems kinda pointless, and I haven't done it much since. I looks kinda funny.

 

theres plenty of space to slap on a four string.....no excuse for bleeding.

 

i aint got time to bleed

 

That's how I get my fingers to bleed. After that I switched to a black pickguard because of the splatter And my fingerboard was a mess too