build muscle in hands
 

I read in a Bass Guitar mag that learning coin tricks and doin coin tricks helps build muscle in you hand so...just throwing that out there for anyone whos curious to try

playing bass is probably an even better way.

+1
nothing beats good ole practice
but try to play an upright, if that wont build your strength than nothing will.

Playing bass will make your hands stronger, so will jerking off every day.

Yeah and if you do it fast enough you can even help out your tremolo picking.

but...dont use a pick...seriously

I imagine that would hurt. Probably a bad idea.

good, picks are a failed guitarists excuse not to practice proper bass technique

^I Heart Hate; your new user name is even gayer.

Yah, it seems like quite the obvious Slipknot reference.

Seriously, stop. We know, you dont need to keep reminding us that the only thing that surpasses your elitism is your close-mindedness.

fuck you, im not close minded im a purist

BAAAAH! :beer:


Zionist: can you honestly say that? not that I couldnt be wrong but I dont think this one would be even half as gay as the last

Theres a fine line, and passing judgements on players who you think are playing bass improperly is crossing it.

No, it's a fucking prefferance.

Fucking stop already. This thread is about building muscle in the hands. If you want to finish this argument hop back over to the "Pick bassists shunned by finger bassists' thread. If not, then stick on topic.

You're right. For building hand muscles, ya cant beat one of these:

http://www.musicianshop.com/Images/gripmaster.jpg

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This is from an article on building stamina by Tony Franklin in GFPM taken from the book "Bass Secrets":

"Ex. 3 is a Jaco favorite, the 6th interval scale, which also helps develop dexterity"

|---------------------7--------9-10-------12-14-----|
|-----7-9---------10-----------------7-9--------10--|
|--------------7---------8-10------------------------|
|--8-------10----------------------------------------|


|------12-10---------9-7-----------------------------|
|---9---------------------------10-9-----------------|
|-------------12-10-------8-7------------------------|
|-------------------------------------10-8-----------|

EDit: These are 16th notes

it looks like itd would help i may try that

It probably works better than coins. Although I do have a set of chinese meditation bell balls that warm up my hands nicely.