Fastest Way to Damage your Wrist Muscles
Is to hard practice the basslines of three Black Sabbath songs that you have no knowledge of in a row. You’re going nuts trying to figure out what the notes are (and since they’re bass notes, the tone is a little duller than usual, so they’re not really as clear as you’d like them to be), and suddenly in the middle of a 2/2 progression of eight-notes that are a hand’s width apart, your left pinky freezes, and a jolt of pain shoots up your arm.
That’s painful stuff, yo.
That, my friends, is what you call muscle cramps. It basically means that you have to slow down, rest your arm a bit, maybe have a refreshing glass of orange juice or something similar. But when it’s two in the morning and you’ve got work the next day, you know you have to get the basslines down pat, and to heck with the muscle spasms.
Thus today, just several hours after getting to work, I can hardly type faster than a snail can crawl two meters. I don’t know how I’ll survive band practice tonight, that’s for sure.