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January 15th, 2006
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Can your fingers really bleed?
You know, from playing the guitar? Like in that one song by Bryan
Adams. The one where he got his first real 6-string that he bought
at the five-and-dime, and played it until his fingers bled during
the Summer of '69.
I even remember Billy Corgan saying he worked on a certain
solo until his fingers bled.
My fingers have never bled, but they have started to hurt.
Any of you ever played until your fingers actually bled?
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well i not quite sure but i'd say ya if you played enough.and it depends on how rough you played guitar.i say that you fingers could bleed round the first time u play(if u go nuts)
since you fingers aint hard the first time u play...
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Nope. My fingers would get too sore long before I got to the bleeding point.
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I doubt it, he probably meant that he played for a long time... although they might have bled, don't know.
"happiness is... a new guitar"
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Nope. My fingers would get too sore long before I got to the bleeding point.
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Exactly what I thought!  
"happiness is... a new guitar"
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SRV used to play so hard with 13 guage strings that he would rip his calluses off. He had to have his fingers wrapped after every gig till he changed his top string to an 11.
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Yikes!
"happiness is... a new guitar"
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Originally Posted by allthumbs
SRV used to play so hard with 13 guage strings that he would rip his calluses off. He had to have his fingers wrapped after every gig till he changed his top string to an 11.
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Hehe. That's actually kinda gross. 
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SRV used to play so hard with 13 guage strings that he would rip his calluses off. He had to have his fingers wrapped after every gig till he changed his top string to an 11.
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I've seen players use superglue to re-attach torn calluses. Works pretty good, too!
Dan
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A very interesting fact...
"happiness is... a new guitar"
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Hehe. That's actually kinda gross. |
What did you think guitar playing was all about?
"happiness is... a new guitar"
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what is the benefit of using heavier gauge strings?
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i have so thick of caluses on my fingers that i'd have to do something completely rediculous to make my fingers bleed
-John
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what is the benefit of using heavier gauge strings?
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more tone and sustain, they stay in tune better and are harder to break
-John
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I'd watched a movie, a long time ago, though, about early 80s, and how punk rockers didn't know to play guitars... In that movie a girl who played bass in Talkingheads says that her fingers were bleeding on a gig once... And the crowd liked it... Blood running down the fretboard... Never happened to me, though. But I'm playing 10s... Maybe with 13s they would
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