What You Need to Know About Bass Fretting Hand Pain...

[@LemonLimeCrimes]

Great advice. I never thought about going to see a specialist for music related things. Always looking forward to the next video!

[@geylkilo925]

as soon as you said "bad posture" I knew that was my problem because I sit hunched over my bass like a shrimp and it made me bend my wrist when going down to my 1st-3rd frets on my E string 💀💀

[@nebs8620]

How do you even manage to play the E string without bending your wrist, it's impossible for me

[@HeroinChrist]

I seriously have no idea

[@Gothgalactica]

Same.. and my pinky’s are both curved inward naturally 😭😭

[@kof867]

@@Gothgalactica I'm the same i have bad clinodactyly on my fretting hand and its causing me pain because i need to bend my wrist to hit the stretches, have a short scale bass coming tomorrow hoping that will make a difference

[@Gothgalactica]

@@kof867 I hope that makes a difference for you! I make tiny bits of progress with my lil pinky, but I’ve definitely decided not to let it feel like a hindrance or like I won’t be as good as anybody else if I can’t use my pinky like people with straight ones 😌🖤 We’ll find our ways around it! Hope you love your new bass and don’t lose the joy! ✌🏽✨

[@kof867]

@@Gothgalactica there’s always a way around things, micro shifting helps but sometimes I get lazy and stretch. I suppose just keep playing is all we can do. Also I know it’s only been 5 days of playing my new bass but, I can already tell it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, I’d strongly suggest looking into short scales if you’ve got small hands and/or pinky curvature. Difference is night and day

[@JJ-006]

I don’t know if it’s because i don’t warm up or because im still getting used to the thicker neck of a 5 string but my entire fretting hand aches all over after 1 or 2 songs

[@CountryFenderBass]

FINALLY!! A video to address my issue!

[@patrickjernigan1025]

My plucking fingers of my right hand don't bend anymore from a repair surgery for a broken wrist need help figuring it out without more surgery.

[@sparrow.mp4]

I do wish I could relax my hand instead of tensed flying fingers but I don’t know how to fix it. Either I have buzzing frets because I don’t press down hard enough or I play clean sounds with tense fingers… I just hope my finger strengthens the more I play Update 3 months later: my fingers got stronger but the reason why it’s so hard is bc my bass is cheap ;/

[@thomasbuker588]

I just watched one of your videos from four years ago (you've changed for the better) and can you make another slap bass tutorial

[@thomasbuker588]

@@OnlineBassGuitar1 I've been playing bass for a couple months and I feel like I'm stuck between easy songs and hard songs to play I don't know what to learn next and a lot of what I can learn seems complicated so do you have any advice

[@canadianguitar-garrettont7368]

so the pain in the palm and nuckle area is probably from too much strain?

[@barondavis5692]

Good info. Thanks

[@TheLixan]

All these videos about bass-playing related pain keep talking about pain in the wrist and here I am trying to find out why my dorsal interosseus(between the index and thumb) hurts so much when I play for longer than 5 minutes and I still haven't found out what could be causing it. I've tried to experiment with the strap height but it makes zero difference.

[@SteventheThorn]

Cheers

[@user-mo9mt6yu8y]

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