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Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
or not... because there should not be so little callousing on my tootsies that blistering occurs.
And yet...
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Beepster
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 03:17:04
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I think I'm gonna name him "Pinky Rollins" because it's on my pinkie and it looks like a frownie upside downey "smile".
and yanno... blisters are lame AW's.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 04:50:58
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When I was younger I used to have the most ridiculous callouses on my fretting fingers, and also on my right hand thumb and middle finger (which I use to pluck). They were like hard leather.
These days they're soft, almost like they're not even there, and yet I play just as hard as I did back then. Heavy strings, lots of brute force, and I really twang. How come I don't get any soreness or blistering?
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 06:23:16
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I often neglect my geetar for many months, as sad as that sounds, and it doesn't take long for those finger tips to turn silky soft again... Bit of a nuisance...
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 07:42:30
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I remember having callouses when I started learning guitar, but they aren't there now, my fingertips are quite soft. I play every day but don't get sore fingers. I thought maybe the gardening work has something to do with it, but I wear gloves most of the time for that.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 13:58:34
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I certainly think that playing every day helps, for sure.
I played my guitar this morning... Had to pack in after an hour because my fingers just couldn't take it (well, me, I meant, I'm a wuss).
note to self: Play More Guitar!
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/03 16:50:09
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/04 00:12:25
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I guess I hadn't really been playing for quite some time as I nerdlinged up some editing crap. I had been playing quite a bit of bass for a while (unplugged with no back trax to get some parts hammered out). That unfortunately led to some kind of pinched nerve bullpuckey under my shoulder blade which has been driving me BONKERS for a couple weeks now.
Anyhoo... after all the time edits and migrating everything back into SONAR I went a little cray cray laying some test guit overdubs. There's a very minor chunk of flesh missing from my forefinger but that doesn't seem to be a problem. The blister is on my pinkie and is literally a perfect string blister. It's like slightly thicker than a low E string and as noted earlier looks cartoonishly like a frown.
I've been tempted to pull out a Sharpie and give ole frowny a couple googly eyes.
Just because I'm a doofus like that.
lulz
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/04 01:56:52
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#gonesoft 
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/04 02:50:33
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craigb
#gonesoft
Well... I guess it's (debatebly) better than being hard and having nowhere to put it.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/04 12:10:22
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Beepster
I guess I hadn't really been playing for quite some time as I nerdlinged up some editing crap. I had been playing quite a bit of bass for a while (unplugged with no back trax to get some parts hammered out). That unfortunately led to some kind of pinched nerve bullpuckey under my shoulder blade which has been driving me BONKERS for a couple weeks now.
Anyhoo... after all the time edits and migrating everything back into SONAR I went a little cray cray laying some test guit overdubs. There's a very minor chunk of flesh missing from my forefinger but that doesn't seem to be a problem. The blister is on my pinkie and is literally a perfect string blister. It's like slightly thicker than a low E string and as noted earlier looks cartoonishly like a frown.
I've been tempted to pull out a Sharpie and give ole frowny a couple googly eyes.
Just because I'm a doofus like that.
lulz
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/05 00:59:25
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TheMaartian
I've been tempted to pull out a Sharpie and give ole frowny a couple googly eyes.
Just because I'm a doofus like that.
lulz
Ole "Pinkie Rollins" seems to be callousing up quite nicely as I brainball on some other stuff (including comping some guide guits from those sessions). Likely would not have translated well into intertube "selfie" silliness even when ripe anyway and ain't nobody got time for that. This is actually kind of good. My other tootsies seem reasonably unscathed and appropriately leathery for further mayhem and the perfect string shaped frowny on my pinkie is gonna be a perfectly placed patch of leather for said mayhem (after mayhaps another day or so). The pinkie being of course the wussiest of all fingers. Which is why it must be punished relentlessly... #thatfriggenwuss
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/05 03:55:00
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I tell you what sucks. A Band Aid on a fretting finger.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/05 04:08:50
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I tell you what sucks. A Band Aid on a fretting finger.
Indeed but then of course there was the man with the plastic fingertips... Ultra Vintage Sabbath Live Got some good "bed" editing/comping done today though. Essentially the tracks I mangled ole pinkie on worked out well. Just wanted something to rip out some bass on.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/05 05:04:04
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Oh my doogness... I love those performances.
loonballs...
the lot of 'em.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/05 15:38:44
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Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides!
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/06 01:45:32
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Blister schmister.
I once sliced halfway through my fretting thumb with a razor blade.
Not on purpose.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/06 04:25:06
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You fret with your thumb?  Wow.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/06 07:38:59
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craigb
You fret with your thumb?
Wow.
Some people do, apparently
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/06 07:41:00
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Got a blister developing on finger #3 but it's too early to have a dig at yet...
I'm finding that, when playing (with my guitar) slides are effected the most, so I can't wait for the hard skin develops.
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2017/12/06 20:43:21
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craigb
You fret with your thumb?
Wow.
Hendrix is my hero.
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Re: Oh fingertip blisters. How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
2017/12/07 06:00:52
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