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Location: Evansville,IN | Played my acoustic yesterday, and now this morning my fingers are sore. They never got sore from my electrics. Is this normal or is it just a rite of passage? :confused: |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Accoustics'll do that to ya... gotta build up those callouses. :D |
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Location: Evansville,IN | I found reasonable explanation for this, the strings are heavier on an acoustic, therefore it takes more pressure to get them to the frets.
I guess I'll just have to toughen up. :) |
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Location: Chapin SC | want some grilled cheese to go with that whine? |
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Location: NJ | Shaddup an' Play Yer Guitar!!!
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Location: closely held secret | Play till you have no fingerprints. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thought for the day:
Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron,
so one man sharpens another. |
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Location: SoCal | Play 'til your fingers are bloody, then go soak them in ice water until they're numb, then go back and play some more! |
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Location: NJ | The other night I watched the Denzel Washington movie "Man on Fire" . . . . there's a great scene involving fingers and a car cigarette lighter that you might find "inspirational" . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Maybe you should lay-off the grilled cheese
...and eats your spinach
real men play acoustic...so cancel your weekly manicure appointment and put medium gages on that puppy
oh, and...I have the opposite syndrom. I just started playing electric and bend the strings right off the fretboard, over the binding and I fret chords so hard they are out of tune... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Had a chance to toss the Old Frisbee around last week. I have the prerequisite Frisbee Callus forming on the inside of my middle finger now.
It is a badge and a reminder that Summer is at hand! |
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Location: Germantown, MD | When my partner's fingers get sore, he sticks them in his beer. I've told him that this is alcohol abuse as surely as spilling a beer on a floor here you can't lick it up, but he swears it helps with the soreness. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by amstphd:
he swears it helps with the soreness. its the sips between the dips that kills the pain |
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Location: NJ | h-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m . . . . .
After playing for three hours, the LAST thing I'll wanna do is to get my fingertips wet . . . .
. . . I don't even usually wash my hands exceedingly thoroughly . . . . as wet fingertips tend to soften and become tender . . . making that fourth hour just that much more uncomfortable.
I usually find that a liberal dosage of Patron' Tequila (taken internally) provides the right amount of analgesic relief to allow me to "Bin & Grear It" through the rest of the night . . . |
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Location: SoCal | And you wonder why nobody wants to shake hands with you????? |
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Location: NJ | . . . if you've ever seen the clientele of some of the venues we play . . . that's fine with me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Well that's the last time I stay to watch you. |
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Location: Chapin SC | i was thinking about driving the 750 miles to wharton nj to see cliff, but that just changed my mind. |
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Location: NJ | If you're will to travel THAT far to one of my gigs, I'll gladly "scrub up" to surgical standards . . . hell! . . . I might even keep my SHOES on for ya'!! . . . . .
If y'gonna drive the distance, do YOURSELF a favor and drive up to CT in a couple weeks . . . |
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Location: Chapin SC | I actually looked up the directions on mapquest after I was looking at the TwoManGroup site, but
11 hours, even in a convertible, is a bit of a stretch, maybe if it were only 5 or 6, I'll just have to wait for the Video version to come out.
don't bother washing for me. |
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Location: NJ | shawn;
Whilst I appreciate the sentiment, TwoManGroup isn't worth a 5 or 6 MINUTE drive . . . let alone hours . . . y'ain't missin' much . . . :) |
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Location: SoCal | The music might not be worth it, but the bickering certainly is! |
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Location: Chapin SC | I've driven 90 miles to hear Rev Horton Heat, and those venues weren't exactly pristine. part of the trip is the journey. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's probably worth a 10 minute drive..... |
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Location: SoCal | "It's probably worth a 10 minute drive....."
just to see Clifford insulted by his partner. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Only on this venue can we go from sore fingers, to dietary suggestions, blatant use of drinkable spirits, and uses of, taking trips to see someone, so we can watch their partner insult them. :D
I think I'll use Eric Clapton's remedy and soak my fingertips in surgical spirits (rubbing alcohol at least 91%) to toughen them up. :) |
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| Forget the remedies and just play your %$£*ing guitar.
That would be my advice anyway. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Schroeder, your advice seems to have worked the best. Been strictly playing the acoustic the last few days, and no more sore fingers. :D
Now if I could just figure out how to get rid of these warts on my..... |
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| BUMP
"Schroeder, your advice seems to have worked the best"
Let's all treasure this moment, shall we?
Mr Cheese (may I call you Grilled now?) you are a wise man. |
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Location: NJ | "Schroeder, your advice seems to have worked the best"
If I may . . .
WHO was the one that earlier uttered:
". . Shaddup an' Play Yer Guitar!!! . . ." ?? |
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| Yeh, but he didn't say cliff did he? he said schroeder. nyaah nyaah nyaah. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | it just always sounds more impressive with a British accent, Cliff. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | GrilledCheese
Just a note from someone who suffered once and got over it, I had to learn to live with the torture of double mandolin strings. The way I got over it was a week trip to Borrego Desert at a Desert Rangers govt provided home, with a supp;y of booze and pot (not my gig) and my band and I playing 20 hours a day for a music starved bunch of desert dwellers. We just played and ate, played and drank, played and smoked (I didn't smoke), and played and played. after that my fingers never became wimpy again as long as I kept up the playing.
Bailey (Please desert Rangers, don't investigate) |
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Location: Chapin SC | but did you inhale? |
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Location: Snellville, GA | "don't bogart that joint, my friend..." |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by Bailey:
GrilledCheese
Just a note from someone who suffered once and got over it, I had to learn to live with the torture of double mandolin strings. The way I got over it was a week trip to Borrego Desert at a Desert Rangers govt provided home, with a supp;y of booze and pot (not my gig) and my band and I playing 20 hours a day for a music starved bunch of desert dwellers. We just played and ate, played and drank, played and smoked (I didn't smoke), and played and played. after that my fingers never became wimpy again as long as I kept up the playing.
Bailey (Please desert Rangers, don't investigate) I somehow or another don't think they would have appreciated my guitar playing as much as yours, and I would have been clubbed like a baby seal in the first hour. :D
The fingers are getting tougher, I've only been playing about 3 months now. :)
As for the "Man on Fire" method of finger toughening, that would lead to an early retirement, musically. :D Great movie though. :cool: |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
Yeh, but he didn't say cliff did he? he said schroeder. nyaah nyaah nyaah. Isn't this the kind of mature British diplomacy that worked so well in 1939? :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | You can betcher ass Churchill never said "nyaah, nyaah, nyaah" . . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Darn right. Well, maybe in '45. Just once. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Man, my fingers need to get sore more often. I must have gotten out the big spoon, from all the stuff I'm stirring up. :D :p :eek: |
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Location: Chapin SC | well, at least you weren't complaining about hair growing on your palm. (too much fret work) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I must say "I DID NOT INHALE"!!!
HOWEVER, I did breathe quite a bit, and the air was somewhat conducive to thoughts not generally thought of by the so called "right wingers", if they had been there, they probably would have abandoned some of their principles for a few deep breaths and a few hours of soaking up some Borrego Desert night time beauty.
But, what do I know, I just play mandolin in a desert setting surrounded by people who keep burning some kind of weed!! |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by Bailey:
I must say "I DID NOT INHALE"!!!
HOWEVER, I did breathe quite a bit, and the air was somewhat conducive to thoughts not generally thought of by the so called "right wingers", if they had been there, they probably would have abandoned some of their principles for a few deep breaths and a few hours of soaking up some Borrego Desert night time beauty.
But, what do I know, I just play mandolin in a desert setting surrounded by people who keep burning some kind of weed!! Yeah, I've had the same experiences at indoor concerts. I never inhaled, but I was in close proximity of the smoke. :D :eek: |
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