drummingman
Gold Member
I have an issue I could really use help with. Recently I severely strained the muscles in my lower back somehow (I'm not even sure how I did it). I still deal with some pain as is and that was about 3 weeks ago.
Enter my problem. When I play double bass I do so by running on the pedals from the legs (for all speeds). Now when I do this it makes my back hurt because of the strained muscles (when I'm playing fast. But also a bit when I'm playing slow). I never had this problem before I hurt my back.
I have experimented with different techniques to remedy this. But here are the issues I"m having with each one: Heels down makes my achilles tendon on my right foot really hurt (I think I've developed tendonitis in my right achilles tendon. I really believe drumming didn't cause this, but sadly drumming heels down now effects it). Holding my heels just a little off the pedals and just using my ankles kills my lower back (always has even before I hurt my back recently). Using the swivel technique makes my left foot feel uncomfortable. Heel toe (done like this: heel, heel, toe, toe) seems to feel pretty good to my body, but the sound seems to be very inconsistent (it's like I get a weird combination of accents and un-accents. I assume this could be fixed to where all the notes are equally loud?).
So my question is, considering all that I've told you, which technique should I use for double bass? This is really stressing me out and worrying me because I don't know what to do. Any thoughts?
Enter my problem. When I play double bass I do so by running on the pedals from the legs (for all speeds). Now when I do this it makes my back hurt because of the strained muscles (when I'm playing fast. But also a bit when I'm playing slow). I never had this problem before I hurt my back.
I have experimented with different techniques to remedy this. But here are the issues I"m having with each one: Heels down makes my achilles tendon on my right foot really hurt (I think I've developed tendonitis in my right achilles tendon. I really believe drumming didn't cause this, but sadly drumming heels down now effects it). Holding my heels just a little off the pedals and just using my ankles kills my lower back (always has even before I hurt my back recently). Using the swivel technique makes my left foot feel uncomfortable. Heel toe (done like this: heel, heel, toe, toe) seems to feel pretty good to my body, but the sound seems to be very inconsistent (it's like I get a weird combination of accents and un-accents. I assume this could be fixed to where all the notes are equally loud?).
So my question is, considering all that I've told you, which technique should I use for double bass? This is really stressing me out and worrying me because I don't know what to do. Any thoughts?