As a late-to-the-party bass player you can imagine how many YouTube vids I've watched lately. So Scott Devine of Scott's Bass Lessons pops up and the dude is wearing a glove on his left hand. It turns out that he's doing it for sensory reasons due to Focal Dystonia (I as a trumpet player got it in my face, so I know all too well what it is). But to hear Scott play you'd never think that he was wearing a glove. Natural curiosity caused me to wonder how it might hamper him.
I happen to have some photo print gloves on hand so I just had to try it. I thought I'd lose some feeling or facility or something that hampered my playing, but none of that happened. In fact, I discovered something today that totally blows my mind...
In other threads I've been questioning whether a recently acquired Ibanez BTB675 was too big for me to play comfortably. But this afternoon (for no particular reason) I picked up a cotton print glove and began playing my BTB with it. Suddenly, the fingerboard itself with a 35" scale no longer felt so big. Getting around was much easier and much less effortful. At first I had to question what I was perceiving. But as I continued to play nothing changed. It seemed significantly easier than playing with bare hands. Crazy, no? Anyone else here play with a glove or gloves? Segue to the related question...
Obviously what the glove does is reduce string friction significantly so my hand can adjust a bit as it needs to without being "stuck" to the strings. Sliding around is easier too. So, I'm wondering, the roughness of the current round-wound string be part of my issue with this bass? I recently put on DR Pure Blues strings thinking that the round core could be easier on my hands. The set that came on the BTB was something other than D'Addarios as the ball ends were all brass color. I have D'Addario balanced tensions on my Squier and D'Addario on the Yamaha TBRX605 and both feel smoother. So I'm wondering if both sets of strings I've been playing on the BTB have been hampering me?
Thoughts/comments on any of the above???
I happen to have some photo print gloves on hand so I just had to try it. I thought I'd lose some feeling or facility or something that hampered my playing, but none of that happened. In fact, I discovered something today that totally blows my mind...
In other threads I've been questioning whether a recently acquired Ibanez BTB675 was too big for me to play comfortably. But this afternoon (for no particular reason) I picked up a cotton print glove and began playing my BTB with it. Suddenly, the fingerboard itself with a 35" scale no longer felt so big. Getting around was much easier and much less effortful. At first I had to question what I was perceiving. But as I continued to play nothing changed. It seemed significantly easier than playing with bare hands. Crazy, no? Anyone else here play with a glove or gloves? Segue to the related question...
Obviously what the glove does is reduce string friction significantly so my hand can adjust a bit as it needs to without being "stuck" to the strings. Sliding around is easier too. So, I'm wondering, the roughness of the current round-wound string be part of my issue with this bass? I recently put on DR Pure Blues strings thinking that the round core could be easier on my hands. The set that came on the BTB was something other than D'Addarios as the ball ends were all brass color. I have D'Addario balanced tensions on my Squier and D'Addario on the Yamaha TBRX605 and both feel smoother. So I'm wondering if both sets of strings I've been playing on the BTB have been hampering me?
Thoughts/comments on any of the above???
