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Playing Bass with Knuckles

#3
It took me five times to read the title to realize you weren't talking about playing your bass with brass knuckles.

But why would ou play bass with your knuckles? I don't think I could get a sound out of mine, much less a bad sound. :hmm:
 
#4
I decided to try to play bass with my knuckles. However, it hurts like hell and I was wondering if there was any real reason to do this and good ways to learn?
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LMFAO!!

Seeing as how you are probably the only person on the planet to have tried this, why don't you tell us if there is any real reason to attempt playing this way? LOL!



All kidding aside, kudos to you for thinking outside the box, but the instrument is challenging enough for me without out trying to invent ways to hurt myself.

I would probably cease and desist before you saw off an important finger.
 
#6
cynical-rabbit said:
I decided to try to play bass with my knuckles. However, it hurts like hell and I was wondering if there was any real reason to do this and good ways to learn?
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My friend your knuckles are joints and therefore a weak area wherever they are on the body. Normaly skin over a joint is thin and the joint has a sheath to protect the skin from being worn away by the movement, in other words friction. I would think it would only be a matter of months before damage is done and maybe years till it is permanant, depending on who often you do it.
I know we have the skill to replace hip and shoulder joints as they are a ball and socket joint, but a knuckle is a hinge joint, a different proposition. So my advises don't do it as it will cause PERMANANT damage.
 
#11
This technique is not unknown. Musicologists consider it to have originated in central Asia, most likely Kzyrgyistan. Commonly called "knuckle dragging," its practitioners typically utilize pickup covers and body-colored headstocks for optimal tone. It's all out there on Google®.

Good luck on your journey.
 
#13
This is the only sort of "knuckle dragging" that I was aware of :

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:p
 
#15
This reminds me of Mark ( The Animal) Mendoza, bassist for Twisted Sister. I must have seen the 100 times during my college years. 1979-1982. The Final Exam, a bar on Route 10 in Randolph NJ was our hangout. Mark would play the bass with his fist, knuckles, forearm, whatever he could get near the strings. Quite entertaining to a buzzed 19 year old.

Ken R
 
#16
Fergie Fulton said:
My friend your knuckles are joints and therefore a weak area wherever they are on the body. Normaly skin over a joint is thin and the joint has a sheath to protect the skin from being worn away by the movement, in other words friction. I would think it would only be a matter of months before damage is done and maybe years till it is permanant, depending on who often you do it.
I know we have the skill to replace hip and shoulder joints as they are a ball and socket joint, but a knuckle is a hinge joint, a different proposition. So my advises don't do it as it will cause PERMANANT damage.
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Dammit. I have no real reason to do it anyways... I was just kinda bored.

Back to fingers.
 

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