The head weights about as much as a bowling ball. If the head is tilted, it will put a lot of pressure on the neck. In other words, you need to balance your head on top of the body. Especially true for computer nerds staring at screens with the wrong position with their heads.
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Double Bass Neck pain
- Thread starter Elemetal
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There's so much to cover in this thread. I'll do it in steps.
This is a mindset that will keep you from recovering.
Please re-read Uncletoad's posts, then stop and reflect.
That is just stupid. Does anyone believe Artur Rubenstein, or Pablo Casals, or Isaac Stern, etc. spent their careers playing through pain? Playing through it is an excellent path to developing chronic, unmitigated pain.
Long term = the Christmas holidays?
This is a mindset that will keep you from recovering.
Please re-read Uncletoad's posts, then stop and reflect.
+1 to Don Higdon's post.
I also wonder, who are these players who talk about living/playing with pain? I have never seen/heard a really great bassist who looked tense.
Again, motion equals sound. If we have pain when we move, it has to come out in our playing, IMHO. If I were in pain, I would want to fix it, just to improve my sound, even if for no other reason...
I also wonder, who are these players who talk about living/playing with pain? I have never seen/heard a really great bassist who looked tense.
Again, motion equals sound. If we have pain when we move, it has to come out in our playing, IMHO. If I were in pain, I would want to fix it, just to improve my sound, even if for no other reason...
