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I guess the core of my quesion is: what muscles do you use to "drive" the slap sound? I ask as a newer player to DB, and newer yet to slap. After playing EBG for decades, I took the plunge and added DB to my playing about a year ago. While loving the tone and voice of the "Big Bass" playing...

Hello, So, the X-rays confirm I have arthritis in my left wrist (old skiing injury). It hurts to play so I'm thinking of switching to lefty. I'm not very far into the bass journey so it's not like I would be leaving behind years of practicing and playing. I normally play in the beginner group of...

Has anyone found a way around thumb joint pain? Basal joint arthritis causing pain on my left (fretting) hand. I'm hoping someone has solved this with a thumb brace or something. I already get steroid injections. Using a topical treatment. There's an operation available however the recovery time...

TL;DR: How do I know if I'll ever adapt to full-scale bass, which is causing me pain. How do you all manage your playing related pain issues? Should I return this Jag? --- Hey all, yesterday I took receipt of a new MIM Player Jag Bass, and it's brought my uncertainty to a boiling point. I'll...

It’s common to read and hear about physical troubles while playing music, no matter what your instrument or musical style are. We’ve read many threads here on TB on that topic and they’re flush with well-meaning advice from people who often have little basis for what they post, high opinion of...

Hello all, I had a rather long practice session yesterday(longer than what I am used to do) where I did many left hand techniques. I went to sleep and today as soon as I woke up I found that the knuckle of my left hand's pointing finger is hurting me especially when I curl up my hand to a fist...

and it’s not the good kind either. i hadn’t noticed it until maybe a few weeks ago, but whenever i pluck a string with my middle finger, where the joint goes from up to down against the pressure from the string, i feel an ache in the joint itself. it feels like strain. right where my finger...

Hi, it's my first post here so sorry if this isn't the right place to post this. I've searched for the answer to this for a while and found nothing on the web. When I fret with my pinky I get pain in my forearm, not pain that runs down my wrist or hand but pain that's isolated there, on the...

So I have an older bass, it belonged to my great-grandpa and was passed down to me around a year ago, it's a Peavy Fury P bass I believe, though I'm not sure. I've been playing on and off for about seven months as much as I can, being in high school and all. While playing I always encounter pain...

First off, I apologize if this is the wrong subforum for this. I'm just getting a feel for this site. I got my bass (acoustic Fender) about a week ago. I'm new to bass but not guitar or other instruments. My pinky is sore and after playing for this short time my left hand in general feels as...

Hi all, I have been playing bass for just under 4 years, and I used to always play sitting down as opposed to standing up. I transitioned into standing up more after a gig where I noticed much of my technique couldn't translate from sitting down when I stood up. These days I try and only...

Hi all, I am a 29 year old advanced player who sadly took a 2 year break from playing bass due to job and moving etc. During corona lock down 2 months ago I started playing again every day and started with a band 4 weeks ago. However I started getting really annoying muscle aches in my hands...

hello bassists I'm a professional double bassist presently completing a degree in osteopathy in Montreal, Canada. I'm doing a research on double bassists right now (musculoskeletal pain vs practice habits) , it's a 3-6 min survey, your support is appreciated! You can subscribe at the end of the...

After a quick practice session the joints in my right hand feel very slow and sludgy when i try to move them. Does anyone else experience this? Is this a bad sign for an underlying problem? A google search yielded no results. Please help!

ok so i've seen loads of people talking about how they create a super loose fist, aka only the two end joints of their fingers are bent and not their knuckles. when i try to do that shape it genuinely aches all the way down my arm, so i instead make an actual fist (minus the thumb). i can get...

I've got these LaBella Jamersons that I've finally managed to setup nicely at low-medium action on my P-Bass. My plucking fingers LOVE them; they are my favorite strings thus far for finger-style play. It's not just the fact they've got a lot of meat to grab, but they've got a bouncy resistance...

Hey all! I am often hired for electric bass and electric guitar, but am now being asked for some UB stuff, and piano. I have some multi-instrumentalist gigs coming up, and I am having some trouble with stiffness and aching in my hands and fingers when I practice different instruments. I...

I am a pretty casual upright bass player and have been playing for 20+ years. I play for about 30 minutes each day currently. Even in that limited amount of playing each day I have developed right wrist pain. It usually goes away after a few days of not playing. The problem is that I’m not sure...

Hey team, I've lived with this for a bit, but wondering if there's a better way. Using Chrome on Android with Gboard (google keyboard), the text entry is extremely painful with the rich text editor. Auto-correct is fundamentally broken, i.e. there is some bad interaction between the XenForo...

I thought that with a compact car, I would never be able to get an upright that I've been dreaming of for so many years, (I won't say how many) but then I just happen to see a YT video from Upton Bass folks where a guy put one in a Mini Cooper and that video gnawed on my brain until the day...

So, I’ve been playing double bass since the 70s. From the mid-90s I’ve been playing electric upright pretty much exclusively. About fifteen years ago, I developed a pain in the thumb of my left hand. More specifically in the lower part of my thumb. The fat fleshy part. This was the result of a...

Hi. I recently started playing electric bass, and the problem is, my plucking fingers are sore after short 1 hr rehearsals with my school's jazz band. My fret hand never gets sore, as I have calluses from years of playing cello and upright bass. I understand that there will be pain and I'll...

Hi all, I play mostly with the bass quite high, the bottom of the Bass on my belt. Occasionally, one/two songs or at the end of the set, with the Bass low. Top of the Bass on or below my belt. Two weeks I changed from a Yamaha BB414 to a Mexican standard Pbass. Absolutely love the bass...

Hey TB brethren. I don't post alot on this site, although I spend a ton of time on here researching, reading, laughing and eating carrots. I've been really bothered by the pain in my shoulder during gigs. I switch back and forth from right to left shoulder (which is awkward at best), beg the...

I am a 63 year old, finger style, bassist who has played for 35 years. Lately I have been having pain in my right hand. I play right handed and I play every day. I play with two fingers. After a short time I get pain running down those two fingers from my hand. They feel loose, like they...

hey all have some fretting hand pain in an off spot. Back of my wrist. See attached Wondering if its happened to anyone else? Or if anyone has any insight. Not entirely sure its bass related either

Hi all, Been playing bass for about two months now. I'm having the best time of my life. But. I'm also in a bit (read: more than a bit) of pain. Instead of describing what I felt, I figured making a video to demonstrate what I'm doing and getting critique on it would probably be easier for...

Or, why does my amp have gain and volume controls? I know I'm being silly, but I've been wondering lately what would happen if I dared to dial in my amps volume to maximum and, like tinkering with a bomb, start playing with my gain control, all the while feeding this experiment with finger...

I have a Warwick rock bass corvette and I need to replace the neck, where can I find one?

Hello all, I recentley made the switch from standing to sitting and I'm loving every minute of it. Well sort of. Sitting has solved so many major technique problems that I have and has alleviated so much pain and discomfort that I had standing except for one aspect. When bowing the g string...

Been playing for 40yrs and recently i've started to get a sharp stabbing pain on my fret hand index finger after playing for approx 15-30mins. It comes from the finger tip when pressing the strings. As soon as it happens at a rehearsal or gig i try to use other fingers for a few mins until it...

Reading about this brought the understanding that this one is more in parallel with the golfers than with the tennis players ... It's a sharp pain on top of the little bone on the inner side (that with a hanging arm touches the body) of the left elbow. It's activated by pressing this spot or...

Hi to all, Not sure if this is the right forum. Sorry if... Many years ago, I studied classical guitar which made me able to read music, have a good posture, an efficient left hand technic and a precise right hand picking. What's the relationship with DB? I didn't lose my left hand technic...

Hello musician friends , I'm new to this forum so I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum . I have been playing bass guitar about 2 years . I have really made a lot of progress .I practice mostly everyday but not so disciplined tho .O just play the musics that I like (also know ) for about 1 hour.I...

When i play in the key of G (3rd fret on E string) i feel pain in my hand around the wrist and around the thumb. Is it going to be more comfortable if the strings are lower on the neck ( lower tension)? Or is it better to have a smaller gauge of strings? If i use flatwound are they going to be...

Hey everyone. I've joined a band a couple of weeks back and during one jam, I played a bit too hard and a bit too much. My wrist and back of my hand started to hurt after that jam. The wrist pain lingered for about two or three days and went away, but now when i play even one song on bass, back...

Hi, I debuted on the double bass playing last fri-sat nights. Alt-country/blues, pizzicato, centered around root-5 stuff. The next day i had sharp pain deep in the knuckle of my right index finger. I only get pain if I put pressure on it. Also, there is a small black mark deep under the skin...

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Hello, fellow musicians and people alike! Disclaimer: This is gonna be a long post. If you want to skip to questions a la TL;DR then skip the first (next) paragraph as it contains general info about why answers to these questions are totally essential to me in this stage of my musicians life...

I did my best to play the bass in right way . But latley after a week practice I did ,my thumb muscles gets super painful . I keep my thumb behind neck sometimes a little upper for hammer one . My muscles in thumb are super painful and I can't find why its like that . I have to push my thumb to...