Your fingers are completely shredded, and you must play in front of humans. What do you do?

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The old superglue technique? Elegant elbow gloves? Bandages? Phone it in?

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Play lots of barre chords. Bb, B, Dmaj7.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

bottle slide

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

band aids + athletic tape

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

Or, get drunk and play through the painq

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

a capella performance (ft mouth clicks)

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

synth-bass

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Make use of your understudy.

In all seriousness, the only real answer is suffer through it.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Friday, 17 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

i figged i'd just drink myself through it

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

THAT WORKS TOO.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Friday, 17 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

SUCK IT UP

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

The first time I ever saw my old bassist superglue his bloody fingerwound shut, I totally almost puked all over the stage. I was falling down drunk on Jaeger though, to be fair.

When my fingers get to dying I just start playing with the not dead fingers.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Playing pinky bass while all your other fingers bleed qualifies as "hardcore" btw.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

When my fingers get to dying I just start playing with the not dead fingers.

I've gotten a lot better at playing with my ring and pinkie fingers. I'm not as good, but I get by.

I've also started practicing with a pick on a couple of songs, especially real linear 7777-3333-5555-0000 stuff. Again, not as good, but it's nice as a spare.

The best advice is to play regularly and build those callouses up.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a story behind this, or is it entirely theoretical?

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

how are gigging musicians not having adequate callouses?

― millenarian (millenarian), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

sorry that was prickish

― millenarian (millenarian), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

avoid sticking fingers into shredders in the future

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

arrange only gigs in front of marsians in the future

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

how are gigging musicians not having adequate callouses?

Sometimes the brass band takes a month off and then has a few 3-set gigs in a row, that's when my hands get tore up (I never get blisters from playing with drumsticks, but a bass drum mallet is heavier and rubs a lot more).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

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