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Originally posted by someday:
Cathy, learning them like that must have really stregnthened your fingers and hand alot. Reminds me of years ago, I knew a bass player who played an upright bass, sitting down and holding it like an electric bass, to practice exercises and scales on...the strings were way up there..  He did that to build endurance.
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I don't see what the sense in that is. It's so easy to drop the action down, so why make yourself suffer by playing with high strings? I remember when I first started playing, my fingers were all blistered on the ends, and at times they'd even bleed. I remember wanting to stay home from school one day because my fingers hurt. Of course, I was told to get my butt on the bus and go to school.