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Blisters through drumming?
As hard as I try to not grip my sticks so tight I always come away from a rehearsal or gig with multiple blisters on almost every finger. Does this happen to anyone else? I wear plasters but sometimes that doesn't help and I can't afford drum gloves just yet, but I can't seem to escape painful blisters.
6 Answers
- OU812Lv 76 years ago
I'm sorry but the others here are wrong. I've been a professional working drummer for over 20 years. It has nothing to do with calluses, like with guitar. It also has nothing to do with how tightly you hold the sticks. Part of playing drums properly is allowing the stick to move in you hand. The friction from this can cause blisters and no calluses will prevent this.
Your drumming style has a lot to do with this. Not talking about bad from, but more about how hard you hit, the type of music you play, etc. The best fix for your problem is drumming gloves. Trust me, if calluses were the answer I'd surely have them after gigging basically every week for the last 20 years.
- ?Lv 66 years ago
I'm sort of with OU812 on this. I haven't been playing a lot lately but even when I was out 3 nights per week and 2 rehearsals per week I would get blisters. I was a carpenter for many years as well so my hands were pretty rugged. I just got blisters sometimes and you have to just deal with them. I'd get them most of the time on the inside of my index fingers. I hate wearing gloves too. Once in a while I'd toss a Band-Aid on it but I didn't like playing with that on my finger either.
- ?Lv 46 years ago
Yeah, I've had this lots of times after playing more than usual. What the other answers said; you just need to develop callouses. You're not doing anything wrong. It's just one of those things, there's no real way around.
- GreywolfLv 76 years ago
Drum practice 20 mins a day till your skin hardens up. Should be improving in a week, fixed in two weeks.
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- RockItLv 76 years ago
You are in the catch 22 phase. You need to play more to develop callouses but not so much that you are breaking broken skin, you want that broken skin to heal hard, not soft and fleshy just to blister again.
Keep practicing through the pain and try not to make broken skin bleed any more.
- ?Lv 46 years ago
Keep playing. You'll get some calluses and you'll learn to loosen up with your fingers. Otherwise you can ruin your wrists permanently if you don't loosen that grip..
Source(s): Drummer.