sore fingertips

charleshaupt · 2011-06-21T13:13:55+00:00

hi all,i recently transitioned from bass to guitar and my fingertips are worn,any advice or encouragement ? thanks.......

sore fingertips

Warren

X-rated Bob wrote: Get the setup checked. Your fingers should be used to strings, so if they're biting you then maybe the action is too high.

Ironically, having been fooling around with bass for a while now, it's the picking hand fingers that take the abuse. Left hand stuff is happiness ?

Renesongs

Ironically, having been fooling around with bass for a while now, it's the picking hand fingers that take the abuse. Left hand stuff is happiness

Bass guitars are best slapped and tickled not picked if you need more attack turn up the volume

Malkav

Renesongs wrote:
Ironically, having been fooling around with bass for a while now, it's the picking hand fingers that take the abuse. Left hand stuff is happiness
Bass guitars are best slapped and tickled not picked if you need more attack turn up the volume

Nail on head ?

Warren

Renesongs wrote: Bass guitars are best slapped and tickled not picked if you need more attack turn up the volume

No, look, I realise that you don't pick them the same way as guitar strings, but even so: my fingers take quite a beating just trying to do simple walking bass-lines. There's also the Stanley Clarke school of percussive plucking 8)

Averatu

Surgical Spirits o the finger tips.

Renesongs

No, look, I realise that you don't pick them the same way as guitar strings, but even so: my fingers take quite a beating just trying to do simple walking bass-lines. There's also the Stanley Clarke school of percussive plucking Cool

Stanley became a virtuoso on double bass and that is completely different kettle of strings. In my limited experience you pluck a double bass like a long bow and fret it with as many fingers as you still haven't broken. Stanley's approach to electric bass is to strum the weenie thing as he does in School Days. Jaco Pastorius was the master of the tickle approach yet he could be quite an animal and strum and beat the thing when the mood took him.

Jack-Flash-Jr

Renesongs wrote:
No, look, I realise that you don't pick them the same way as guitar strings, but even so: my fingers take quite a beating just trying to do simple walking bass-lines. There's also the Stanley Clarke school of percussive plucking Cool
Stanley became a virtuoso on double bass and that is completely different kettle of strings. In my limited experience you pluck a double bass like a long bow and fret it with as many fingers as you still haven't broken. Stanley's approach to electric bass is to strum the weenie thing as he does in School Days. Jaco Pastorius was the master of the tickle approach yet he could be quite an animal and strum and beat the thing when the mood took him.

Best bass advice I ever got (and I've chatted to more than a few bassists by now) was from Renesongs... when I started off I was tugging cables, now I concentrate on caressing the strings (even on the uptempo numbers) and in his words "let the amp do the heavy lifting". It's difficult to not get carried away though and thrash away!

charleshaupt

thanks to all for the advice regarding the sore fingertips....after 10 000 miles of fretboarding this week i realized that memorization of all the scales etc. is the important criteria........keep on playing...

Warren

charleshaupt wrote: thanks to all for the advice regarding the sore fingertips....after 10 000 miles of fretboarding this week i realized that memorization of all the scales etc. is the important criteria........keep on playing...

Another factor: as you become more experienced, you tend to apply exactly the right amount of pressure to a string as is needed. Early on, especially when holding chords, there's a tendency to grip the hell of the neck, which doesn't help your fingertips. You can help this process along by practicing applying just the right amount of pressure to fret the note.

Warren

Jack Flash Jr wrote:

Best bass advice I ever got (and I've chatted to more than a few bassists by now) was from Renesongs... when I started off I was tugging cables, now I concentrate on caressing the strings (even on the uptempo numbers) and in his words "let the amp do the heavy lifting". It's difficult to not get carried away though and thrash away!

I will sure be taking his advice to heart, maybe I can get some bass work done this evening...I'll feedback if my right hand still works tomorrow (now there's a quote that can be taken out of context).

Squonk

Tapping with your right/left (ICM) hand also takes toll on the fingers.

One of the open mics at TJ's, I had developed this tapping sequence on Acoustic, around the 2nd - 7th frets, which left my fingers hugely sore and I battled on the night.

But after a couple of weeks, there was no pain at all.

raithza

i love that sore-finger feeling after a long session... it's how you know it was a good session. especially if you can smell the strings on your fingers. (i need new strings)

giggsy

raithza wrote: i love that sore-finger feeling after a long session... it's how you know it was a good session. especially if you can smell the strings on your fingers. (i need new strings)

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?