My index finger is sore

No, but I concentrate on using a light touch on BOTH hands.
It's quite astonishing how little force is needed for fretting, when the action is not too high.

 

i have felt no pain for the last year... i guess my fingers are all "Grown up"

i still remember my newbie days when that happened... so pain will probably disappear with time and practice

 

yeah, just wait a while and you'll get callouses (SP?) and then you can burn your fingertips and feel no pain!

 

When i get them finally i can pick up hot coals at parties and MOST of the gurlies are impressed

 

how long does it take for the calouses to appear? i am wee girlie and am prepared to get big manly hands for the sake of the bass but i have been playing incesaantly for almost 1 year now and have hard bits on the side of my thumb and on the tips of my fretting fingers, but nothin that i would call 'fireproof'?

 

You think you've got problems??
I just BURNT my index finger, fretting hand.
We are talking major blistering here,
Anyone know a good cure? repair?
I have a gig next Saturday and this is worrying the hell out of me!

 

Didn't you watch "Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible"!!?? (BBC2 9.30 last night)

Ask Dr. Donald Baxter (of the Rabbie Burns, Burns Unit) about his Chameleon Serum Theorem!

 

I thought "the Kumals" was funnier ..... mind you...I wouldn't mind some of that stuff for "Her Indoors"!

 

are you lot kidding? i can stick pins into my fingers and then lightly roast them over a barbecue - play harder!

 

And this is from the "Jason Donovan" of Talkass!!

 

Originally posted by *ToNeS*
are you lot kidding? i can stick pins into my fingers and then lightly roast them over a barbecue - play harder!

Is that why you only have half a thumb and no index finger???

 

I've been playing for 6 years and I still don't have callouses on my fingers. My finger tips are a little tough, but nothing I could put a match to. I don't get sore fingers from playing though so I guess I'm ok.

My fretting hand pinky does get a little tired from stretching so much when I play (I have small hands) but that goes away as soon as I stop playing.

 

i got high action so i gotta struggle to hold a note.once i get my fender p or j with low action,it should be easier.

 

Harden up!!

I find that since playing the bass i have gotten alot better at playing Tekken 3 due to the fast pace i can now move my two fingers on my right hand, and i have never been beaten yet

 

that's just a snide quip to myself about slapping too much in order to impress

i dunno if that was a typo or deliberate man, but in the middle of trying to think of a suitably devastating retort i cracked up - "Talkass" it's all about irony!

oh yeah not quite Flea, i am the undisputed champion of Tekken 3, buddy - gimme Kazuya and you're goooooone!

 

WHEN I FIRST GOT MY 4 STRING THING I PLAYED SO MUCH THAT MY INDEX FINGER BLED !!!. after the fist week my fingers looked like vienna sausages (tiny weenies ) in ketchup . it seemed like i coudnt put my bass down .but know i can put out a match with my fingers and not feel a thing

 

Well I usually don't get pains, but there's the occasional day where I put in the extra hours and my wrist gets a bit sore.

I don't have many calousses, even though I practice at least three hours a day for like the last year or so.

Oh well
At least I have plenty on my palms
(I didn't say that)