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Sore fingers from not playing?
- Thread starter Tommy TGrip
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If I don't play for a while and then start again, yeah. Just stopping, doesn't make them sore. More sensitive at the tips, I suppose, but not sore. But if I do anything requiring those calluses, yeah, sore when they're not there.
I work with my hands, so no. Work keeps my hands strong.
When I’m on holidays my hands hurt less from not working.
I may lose hand stamina & strength so playing bass can feel harder on holidays, but if I exercise then I’m fine (swimming, cycling, paddling, hiking with poles, snowboarding, etc).
OP - do you exercise?
do you work with your hands?
You may have some mild inflammation or early arthritis that moving your hands (playing bass) alleviates the pain. Try some natural creams for arthritis or anti inflammatory creams and see if your hands improve. eg. Arnica (Fisiocrem from Coles or Woolworths is my #1 choice).
When I’m on holidays my hands hurt less from not working.
I may lose hand stamina & strength so playing bass can feel harder on holidays, but if I exercise then I’m fine (swimming, cycling, paddling, hiking with poles, snowboarding, etc).
OP - do you exercise?
do you work with your hands?
You may have some mild inflammation or early arthritis that moving your hands (playing bass) alleviates the pain. Try some natural creams for arthritis or anti inflammatory creams and see if your hands improve. eg. Arnica (Fisiocrem from Coles or Woolworths is my #1 choice).
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Not the tips but the connective tissues. Usually if I’m not playing bass with rigor I’m playing guitar and my experience is those 9s and big bends teach your calluses a lesson. But if specifically my right/picking hand would smart a little if I skipped too many bass days.
Yes. The longer I go without playing, the longer it takes my finger muscles to warm up. Slow warmups become more necessary and longer (than usual, I try to always warm up).
Fingertips get sore a bit, but I can usually work through it. And one thing I have to watch out for is, I love to play slap-style, but I seldom get to. When I do, I really get a bruise on my right-hand thumb from the lack of a callous there.
I try to do at least 30 minutes a day of, if nothing else, just warmups or scales. I have Damian Esrkine's bass course and there'a always something to work through there. And sometimes like the last two night, I've just been running down my artist's set list for a Sunday afternoon show. Takes 1 1/2 hours and is a long workout. I like it!
I've been to sessions where it was a last-minute call and I haven't played for 3-4 days, which is pretty unusual, but it happens. The clients are happy. but I can hear my technique being less clean than I like to hear it.
Fingertips get sore a bit, but I can usually work through it. And one thing I have to watch out for is, I love to play slap-style, but I seldom get to. When I do, I really get a bruise on my right-hand thumb from the lack of a callous there.
I try to do at least 30 minutes a day of, if nothing else, just warmups or scales. I have Damian Esrkine's bass course and there'a always something to work through there. And sometimes like the last two night, I've just been running down my artist's set list for a Sunday afternoon show. Takes 1 1/2 hours and is a long workout. I like it!
I've been to sessions where it was a last-minute call and I haven't played for 3-4 days, which is pretty unusual, but it happens. The clients are happy. but I can hear my technique being less clean than I like to hear it.
