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Zoner · **Hand Cramping When Playing Bass -** 02-26-2007, 11:33 AM

As most of you know by now, I'm a bass player and while playing a show on Saturday night my right hand (pick hand) began cramping up like a motherfucker around the third song.

It started paining right in the fleshy part of my thumb, on the palm of the hand. I could hardly hold on to the pick and at a couple of points I had to drop the pick and play with my fingers.

Please don't give me any bullshit about how "real" bass players play with their fingers...that's not going to help me.

Any advice (aside from ^ that) would be greatly appreciated. Do you guys have any warm-up exercises you could recommend? I jerk with my left hand, so that's not going to help either...

Thanks.

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Zoner is Offline Administrator Posts: 17,739 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Camp Crystal Lake	Hand Cramping When Playing Bass - 02-26-2007, 11:33 AM As most of you know by now, I'm a bass player and while playing a show on Saturday night my right hand (pick hand) began cramping up like a motherfucker around the third song. It started paining right in the fleshy part of my thumb, on the palm of the hand. I could hardly hold on to the pick and at a couple of points I had to drop the pick and play with my fingers. Please don't give me any bullshit about how "real" bass players play with their fingers...that's not going to help me. Any advice (aside from ^ that) would be greatly appreciated. Do you guys have any warm-up exercises you could recommend? I jerk with my left hand, so that's not going to help either... Thanks.