I just realised my hands are freaking cold! I been jamming some awsome, funny rock riff with some solo improvise.. Litterally been jumping up and down.. Room is warm, I am sweaty! Really warm.. Except my hands, they are icecold.. Very comon thing when I grab the guitar, they go ice...
Can you do something about it. I think it kind of limits my playing.. Not to think of injurys.
But it´s not everytime. Sometimes they almost burn up.. That´s an awsome feeling and your playing is sooo much smother and faster. And then you could be cold in the rest of your body... Seems to be no logic in this... or? =)
And no, this has nothing to do with warm up or not... I´ve been doing major warm up and then rocking for all together 1 hour perhaps with some small pauses... Bloodflow seems to be coming back when I stoped playing
Wear gloves? Haha no I'm joking
Just make sure you do a proper warmup routine. I can usually feel my fingers getting physically warmer the longer I've been playing, and you are right, it is much easier to play then.
Do some awkward chord stretches and 4 note per string scalic stuff where u have to stretch, should get them all warmed up!
I'm also often cold on my hands, warm up does not help(for me).
Well.. I warmed up for 30 minutes..Some stretching... Then after I played some I started rocking totally sweating my ass off =)
And now my second "session" I was warm the whole time.
Very often when I am warm in my hands.. I grab an acoustic for instance, just play some chords.. And I feel my hands go ICE.. I mean.. Like beeing out below freezing point cold. Even though it´s warm inside.. You stop playing.. And you get warm again.
If you usually don't have cold hands, and it happens when you take a guitar, consider if you hold the guitar in the way that is blocking your blood circulation
Hmm I have this problem on time to time..My hands get cold when I get nervous about a show or something I'm about to play..Also sometimes when practising in studio..Try to keep your hands warm all the time (when going to a gig wear gloves if its cold etc)..I found out that this is all in my head so I try to relax myself and get that blood circulating again ...Its very unpleasant to play with cold hands And I don't think there is ultimate solution to it..
I aswell often get this problem, but usually a 30min warm-up helps
I have this exact same problem too! But I almost always have cold hands...
It's indeed unpleasant to play the guitar with cold hands
I do some warm-up exercises, but 5 min. later, my hands are as cold as before the exercises...
I also try to do some "real" warm-ups, by putting my hands in some warm water, and then "massage" them, while I wipe 'em off...
It helps for about 10 min.
I really want to get rid of these cold hands
Funny, that never happens to me, but when my hands are cold, just because the air is cold or something, I find it a lot harder to play. My hands just don't seem to work as good when they're cold.
Aaahhh.. I remember that back in the days when I went to music school lots of years ago, I used to put my hands under in the sink filling it with warm water.
might be better to do some bodywork for 5 min instead.. like situps, pushups, squatts... If that´s a possibilty. That could over do it so us cold handed guys will be warm for the whole session..
ok, this thought just entered my mind.. You cold-handed guys: Are you considered to be... what do you call it... Less flexible in chest and shoulders? A long shot, but why not ask. Because I am, and after I stretch like in the gym you can feel the blood going out in the arms. Mostly because you cut the flow by stretching. But you see what I´m speculating about.
i NEVER get this problem... unless im in my bands practice room when the heatings broke and we have to practice for 6 hours due to having a large gig coming up.
playing with cold hands is not good, expecially when it gets to the point when you cant feel where your fingers are on the guitar... soloing is impossible!
When your hands are cold you should avoid playing demandig passsages. Just put them in warm water and they wioll get warmed up pretty soon.
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