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Just came back from a trip to Thailand playing a small benefit festival. Thailand is always hot and most time humid.
I found it SO HARD to play. My fingers were slightly sweaty so they were really sticky. Also a bit swollen from the heat.
Particularly hard was fingersliding. There's a lot of sliding in the music we do. I couldn't get my fingers to slide over to different positions, some solo's had slides that I just couldn't get to the next note. That is until my fingers got so sweaty they slipped over everything so when bending the strings slipped from under my fingers.
I had a can of Graph Tech Chops Pre-Play that helped with the stickyness, but was also a bit too slippery, so sliding worked a bit too good just like when I got too sweaty.
I didn't have a great time playing there.
How do you guys deal with that? Touring bands play all over the world in all sorts of conditions. Is there a trick?
I found it SO HARD to play. My fingers were slightly sweaty so they were really sticky. Also a bit swollen from the heat.
Particularly hard was fingersliding. There's a lot of sliding in the music we do. I couldn't get my fingers to slide over to different positions, some solo's had slides that I just couldn't get to the next note. That is until my fingers got so sweaty they slipped over everything so when bending the strings slipped from under my fingers.
I had a can of Graph Tech Chops Pre-Play that helped with the stickyness, but was also a bit too slippery, so sliding worked a bit too good just like when I got too sweaty.
I didn't have a great time playing there.
How do you guys deal with that? Touring bands play all over the world in all sorts of conditions. Is there a trick?
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