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My fingers :(
2006-10-03, 10:35 PM #1
I've been practicing my bass a lot and now my fingers are full of blisters. I want to practice but it hurts! Quick solutions?
Think while it's still legal.
2006-10-03, 10:41 PM #2
This is all I can suggest.

http://www.webmd.com/hw/skin_and_beauty/aa67552.asp

Quote:
* Avoid wearing the shoes or doing the activity that caused the blister until the blister heals.
:P
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2006-10-03, 10:42 PM #3
Grow callous. Ive heard soaking hands in sal****er aids this.. but ive never bothered since I'm around sal****er all the time anyway.

o.0
2006-10-03, 11:16 PM #4
sal****er....

I can't figure that one out >.<
Think while it's still legal.
2006-10-04, 12:42 AM #5
salt water.

o.0
2006-10-04, 12:44 AM #6
I've never experienced actually having blisters on your fingertips (I'm assuming that that's where they are). My callouses simply developed once my fingers found out that guitar playing would be a regular thing.
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2006-10-04, 8:23 AM #7
I've heard that soaking your fingertips in vinegar helps harden the skin too.
nope.
2006-10-04, 9:24 AM #8
bend strings. it'll rip the fingers to shreds and grow callouses real fast -and- strenghten your finger.
"NAILFACE" - spe
2006-10-04, 3:58 PM #9
Wait, you've been playing bass for how long, and you still don't have calluses? Were you a picker before or something?
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2006-10-04, 4:12 PM #10
It isn't my right hand, it's my left hand. I came up with a bass line that involves a lot of slides and after practicing it way too many times my index and middle fingers both have big nasty blisters on them.
Think while it's still legal.
2006-10-04, 4:13 PM #11
Prosthetic finger, it'll never blister :ninja:
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2006-10-04, 4:46 PM #12
it happens, that's how you grow callouses.

i remember when i was playing an opeth song in my early years i cursed the octave slides to hell. but it did give me fingers of steel.
"NAILFACE" - spe
2006-10-04, 10:16 PM #13
*sigh*

I can't say as I've ever gotten blisters, but whenever I decide to dust off the ole gitt-ar, my fingers get pretty sore. I just play through it. It goes away after about a week.. (and then shortly thereafter I stop playing and the callouses go away and I restart the cycle).
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2006-10-06, 5:56 AM #14
Sounds like you need to play more often. :P If you play enough, you'll never get blisters again.
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