DOUBLE BASS / ELECTRIC
BASS FINGER TAPE
Don't
blister the life out of your seasoned, doghouse fingers - stop playing through
the pain and order your double bass finger tape today!
If you're a Jazz,
Blues, Folk, Bluegrass, Country, Rock n Roll, Rockabilly, Psychobilly or New
Orleans Double Bass player this product is for you. It will get you through your
gig, your tour or your student exam. We thoroughly recommend and endorse this
product. It lasts for hours and protects sore and damaged fingers, nails and
fingertips. Also used and recommended by electric bass
players.
- Professional double bass
finger tape
- 2.5cm
width
- Strong, comfortable and
durable
- Lasts for hours and
hours
- Protects sore and damaged
fingers and fingertips
- Safe, non?toxic and easy
to use
- Easy to
remove
- No glue seeping through
and damaging our strings
- White/cream in
colour
- Diagram supplied
illustrating how to use/apply
- Each roll individually
hygienically packed and sealed
- Length of roll 5
meters
My Double Bass
Story
Hi, I'm
Steve Tucker. As a long-time double bass player, I've been through the
frustration and pain barrier of having overworked and overplayed sore fingers. I
spent many years playing acoustically in jazz, folk and rock ?n? roll bands
where the promoter's requirement was strictly no amplification. I guess this was
to replicate the authentic original sound of the era. I made a wooden hollow
soundboard to project the sound with a hole for the endpin ? it worked very well
but I struggled on with callouses, blisters, cracks and cuts on my
fingers.
I was working on trying to
get a big, ballsy tone and sound that would travel. I learnt very quickly the
need to dig in, to learn how to develop my slap playing and really pull the
sound out of my bass. The hallmark sound I was looking for on the bass was to
push for its percussive quality, I wanted a real ballsy tone and volume. The
secret of effective DB playing is of course all in the fingers.
I started
to learn very quickly about blood blisters and building callouses. I would pop
them with a needle, drain them and soak them in surgical spirit, alcohol,
vinegar - anything I could get my hands on. I even used super glue to get me
through a gig. I was quick to realise these solutions were temporary, could
cause infections and the liquids could get into my blood stream. I tried using
lighter gauge strings, nylon and gut strings and even lowering the action. None
of these options gave the sound I was looking
for. |
As our gigs got bigger we
had to to use amplification but I still wanted that natural sound and tone of
the double bass. Turning up the amp to compensate for my bruised and damaged
finger tips was an option but I lost the tone and I started to sound like an
electric bass player. I then started to experiment with taping my fingers. I
tried so many manufacturers, visited so many chemists even discussed my
requirement with pharmacists and doctors but they didn't really understand my
product problem. They would say stop playing and leave the blisters to heal for
a while - no practice - no gigs, but I didn't have that time as I was playing
4/5 times a week with recording sessions in between. I simply didn't have enough
recovery time. They explained to me that my finger tips along with my tongue
were the most sensitive part of my body and needed protection if I was to
continue my dynamic style of playing. They saw no need for me to endure so much
pain while I was playing.
As musicians we need to take
care of our hands. After trying many, many tape products I finally came across a
manufacturer of a fantastic product and now here it is, available to you
today!