Quencho092
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I've been playing for 4+ hours a day, some days with acoustic rehearsals on campus with my contrabassist, some days a full jam with electric, some days on the bass, some days a session on each instrument in different settings....
I was noticing some forearm fatigue so i took 2 days off to first rest, then rehabilitate. I filled up a small bucket with fine sand and started opening and closing my fingers until i felt a light burn, followed by using a forearm squeeze thing that has coiled metal as resistance (50lbs)
I wasn't play anywhere close to 4 hours daily before and the acclimation period has been rough, but with these exercises and a new book i got called Guitar Aerobics (an exercise for each day that explores string skipping, legato, stacatto, etc techniques to raise the exhaustion threshold of the hands and forearm) now I can hang for longer.
I never realized how out of shape my left forearm and hand were (insert jokes) but it feels good to be improving that area of conditioning. I strongly recommend this process for making the physical component of playing easier!
I was noticing some forearm fatigue so i took 2 days off to first rest, then rehabilitate. I filled up a small bucket with fine sand and started opening and closing my fingers until i felt a light burn, followed by using a forearm squeeze thing that has coiled metal as resistance (50lbs)
I wasn't play anywhere close to 4 hours daily before and the acclimation period has been rough, but with these exercises and a new book i got called Guitar Aerobics (an exercise for each day that explores string skipping, legato, stacatto, etc techniques to raise the exhaustion threshold of the hands and forearm) now I can hang for longer.
I never realized how out of shape my left forearm and hand were (insert jokes) but it feels good to be improving that area of conditioning. I strongly recommend this process for making the physical component of playing easier!
