No guitar for ten days...

[TwAn]

Nooo!!! I cut my hand at work today... Pretty serious... Had to go to the doctor, and now I won't be able to play guitar for ten days... What to do!?

 

[NorM]

practice technique with the other hand.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I would just focus your attentions elswhere. I hardly played guitar at all over Christmas and the New Year (being in the arms of a beautiful woman ) and I did not miss it.

Maybe listen to some cool new music and you will be fired up when your hand is better.

A break from guitar playing is good somtimes. Gives you extra passion when you resume playing.

 

[tvanveen]

I agree, breaks are good. I usually make really good progress after a break.

 

[TwAn]

Thanks guys!

I'll do just that, take a guitar-break... I bought a lot of new CD's the past weeks and I really need to go through them. Maybe I can browse the internet a bit, in search of my next EBMM guitar...

 

[Spudmurphy]

I agree, breaks are good. I usually make really good progress after a break.

Yeah but don't do like me and leave it for 10 .....years !!!

 

[ernie1966]

Sorry to hear that you're hurt TwAn. You could brush up on your theory, get yourself a good book on Jazz and read.

 

[tommyindelaware]

Nooo!!! I cut my hand at work today... Pretty serious... Had to go to the doctor, and now I won't be able to play guitar for ten days... What to do!?

spend the next ten days realizing & loving the fact that it's not permanant damage !!!!!!!
a local player buddy of mine just lost his left little finger ........& 1/3 of his middle finger last month.......(TABLESAW).
sometimes...........the slightest mistake can be devistating....

 

[brentrocks]

Thanks guys!

I'll do just that, take a guitar-break... I bought a lot of new CD's the past weeks and I really need to go through them. Maybe I can browse the internet a bit, in search of my next EBMM guitar...

i know how that stuff can happen....i work in construction and i have cut myself a few times...i hope you are ok!

 

[Colin]

About ten years ago I sliced the whole side of my middle finger on my fretting hand. They stitched it back on but to this day I have no feeling in it whatsoever. To make it worse this was when I was playing full time with no other job (I was helping a mate and he dropped a sheet of stainless). I had that night off and went back to work the very next night with it all bandaged up. I had to adjust my playing style and compensate for what I could not play. Now I have full use of my finger but my playing style is completely changed, I listen to my old desk tapes and it sounds like someone else playing. Look what a hand injury did for Tony Iommi?

Colin

 

[tvanveen]

Yeah but don't do like me and leave it for 10 .....years !!!

10 years bad. 2 weeks good.

 

[koogie2k]

Get well soon. It's hard when you are hurt looking at the guitar wishing you could play. Hope you heal up soon and get back to jammin'!

 

[jazzbo jim]

play using the other hand and pretend it's a stranger
(sorry...couldn't resist...get well soon)

 

[Jonny Dubai]

Sorry to hear about that. You could be one of the first FOOT guitarists. May take a bit of yoga to get into the correct position!!!!

All the best,

Jonny

 

[caucajun]

can't play, eh?

well......there's always internet porn..........