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What songs cramp your hands?
- Thread starter Vic Winters
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I AGREE- anything with reptitive motions - even if its only 2 notes... over and over and over again... thats a killer
I think Dave is referring to right hand cramps. I never get those but I do occasionally get fatigued in my left hand after playing a repetitive pattern over and over in first position. I wish I could think of an example.
"The Seventh House" by IQ 
-- There's a 2-3 minute stretch near the end with a fairly fast 8th note passage that just wrecks my left hand every time.
Basically, anything with long repetitive passages, especially with large spans and speed, will make the left hand tired. I'm just glad I like to play prog more than anything because I can usually count on an upcoming change in tempo at some point soon.
-- There's a 2-3 minute stretch near the end with a fairly fast 8th note passage that just wrecks my left hand every time. Basically, anything with long repetitive passages, especially with large spans and speed, will make the left hand tired. I'm just glad I like to play prog more than anything because I can usually count on an upcoming change in tempo at some point soon.
i thought it was refrring to both... i see most of the time its my left hand cramping -- I play really hard - maybe I fret too hard sometimes and it wears me out quicker..
new born by muse
dazed and confused
sleep now in the fire- ratm
i used to play these songs to build up my left hand stamina, they arent much of a problem anymore although they still give me a good workout.
dazed and confused
sleep now in the fire- ratm
i used to play these songs to build up my left hand stamina, they arent much of a problem anymore although they still give me a good workout.
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I was referring to both, FWIW. If you warm up and your technique is good, you shouldn't get cramps. On the other hand, I'm coming from a classical guitar background:
+1 Can't turn you loose (Blues Bros.) Feels like my f***ing hand is going to fall off.
STP's Vasoline... it's not a hard song, but i've got small fingers and I play a p-bass. by the time we get to the solo, my fingers want to fall off playing that F and G over and over and over.
Any tune can cramp my hands up if I don't take a little time before the rehearsal to stretch out a bit and warm up.
I find that tunes with fast tempos and the 80's rock "pick-style" machine gun 8th notes can feel really long and straining on the right hand, when played finger style. But with a pick, they are cake.
Also, I'm prone to getting brain cramps when trying to sightread bebop. DAMN YOU OMNIBOOK!
I find that tunes with fast tempos and the 80's rock "pick-style" machine gun 8th notes can feel really long and straining on the right hand, when played finger style. But with a pick, they are cake.
Also, I'm prone to getting brain cramps when trying to sightread bebop. DAMN YOU OMNIBOOK!
