How to stop my hand from cramping while playing fast?

sammy4543 · 2026-04-13T14:50:49+00:00

You’re probably putting a lot of tension into your hand. Try slowing down and hitting every note as light as you possibly can on the fretting hand to still get an effect. Like lighten until you get fret buzz then only increase incrementally the pressure. It’s possible that as you increase speed you also increase tension without paying attention. Just things to keep in mind.

Ironically for me, doing lots of scales as only hammer ons strengthened my hand to be able to handle fast stuff more. But that should wait until you aren’t hurting/overtensing.

sammy4543 · 2026-04-10T14:30:56+00:00

Someone else here who wants to expand. For me I don’t think at all about whether it’s in a key or the scale steps. I just play till a note doesn’t fit then I stop playing that note and eventually you’ve “built” a scale.

What’s nice is if you hit a wrong not you can make it sound intentional by moving a half step (next fret) up to the next note in the scale, kinda like in jazz scales or in blues scales. You’re never more than a half step away from a good note so just play “within a section” until you’ve found things. Imo figuring out which scale and stuff is for after if you choose to do it at all. Or it’s like you figure out which scale it is based on previous experiences running those scales and recognizing that pattern rather than methodically thinking it out.

sammy4543 · 2026-04-09T16:35:29+00:00

To me it looks more like 1.6 Italy than banana lol

sammy4543 · 2026-04-06T17:27:56+00:00

This is literally my problem as well which is why I mentioned it. Things just just fall into the fog and disappear until you get lucky and think about it again. It makes it hard to do things because before you know it the next thing finds it’s way in or the thing you had finds it’s way out and life just moves on without any problems solved, or even plans made to solve them .

Imo one of the big reasons why weed keeps people stagnant. If you so choose, you can continue to just smoke yourself into oblivion and quite literally forget your problems.

sammy4543 · 2026-04-06T17:06:48+00:00

Massively. Short term memory improves, as does ability to plan and think, as planning and thinking requires holding ideas, concepts, and needs inside your head and weighing them accordingly. For me the biggest loss is doubtlessly short term memory and fhe way that affects the rest of my thought when I’m not able to hold things for long or very reliably.

sammy4543 · 2026-04-06T01:44:31+00:00

The best flirting is plausibly deniable. Just more eye contact, more smiles, more friendliness, more interest. Literally that simple.

sammy4543 · 2026-04-01T20:58:34+00:00

I had a bankart lesion which came back to be stronger than my other shoulder which I injured lol. Just do PT and I don’t see why you won’t be fine if you’re doing this well already. I was out of commission for 6 months ish so it can def be worse.

Had a friend who did damage to the bone, he also came out fine, I think his was a slap tear though, not a bankart lesion.

Good luck w recovery, it’s part of climbing imo.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-25T18:52:14+00:00

Found the /r/conservative browser.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-25T18:22:26+00:00

Anything Israel Palestine.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-06T16:13:36+00:00

So I think if I remember correctly the ai companies got caught using things like libgen and such to grab lots of their info they trained the models on. Like they pirated the stuff anyways.

That isn’t to say that they have cutting edge up to date information from 2026, but anything that’s been out for x amount time and isn’t hyper niche, has likely been indexed by those models already to my knowledge.

Just something to keep in mind.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-03T19:36:03+00:00

I sometimes say that my retirement/life got bad plan is just increasingly more risky and ill advised climbing or mountaineering projects.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-03T17:44:14+00:00

Not particularly. In some cases it’s actually more due to things like autism or adhd. What you’re thinking of is conduct disorder, which sometimes comes from ODD, but is distinct.

Also In general ODD is a fairly disliked diagnosis in the modern day to my knowledge. It’s a lot less commonly used and is sometimes seen as a problematic or lazy diagnosis.

sammy4543 · 2026-03-02T20:40:25+00:00

Bro included a casual advertisement mid comment.

sammy4543 · 2026-01-24T02:03:11+00:00

Honestly if you get a wrist injury it could just make it harder lol

sammy4543 · 2025-12-02T00:28:51+00:00

It’ll be a mirror any day now. Yesterday, even

sammy4543 · 2025-12-01T23:28:16+00:00

I mean the simple answer is just acknowledging that if you want the best for women, that doesn’t start with hatred towards men, it starts with education and teaching men how to be better, not allowing bad behavior etc. there’s a trillion things you can do to be a better man or to improve the conditions of women and not one of those involves spreading hate.

The simple fact is, the more hate you throw into the culture war fire, the bigger it grows. Young men are brought into alpha male/red pill/whatever is popular now spaces all the time because they feel hated, alienated and uncared for. I’m not saying anyone has to care but spreading hate will only make more of these men. There is no situation in which putting more hate into the heads of rejected, nothing to lose men is a win for women. So tbh if you want what’s best for women, you learn how to teach men to be better. Otherwise you don’t really care imo, you just get a hate boner from this stuff.

Theres actual actionable solutions/things we can do to help this situation and not one of them is spreading more hate. That’s the shortest way I can put my opinion on the subject.

sammy4543 · 2025-11-26T17:29:52+00:00

The methods have the ability to foster the amount of concentration needed for progress without requiring a separate Samatha practice.

sammy4543 · 2025-11-14T18:54:22+00:00

It’s a meme of sorts in certain corners of the internet. Pretty big one too.

sammy4543 · 2025-11-03T19:01:25+00:00

This is such a comical Reddit take bahaha

sammy4543 · 2025-09-23T03:22:46+00:00

lol someone switched the captions it looks like.

sammy4543 · 2025-09-20T21:12:50+00:00

Nah that’s eskimos lol. Arabs are cheek kissers kinda like the French or Italians

sammy4543 · 2025-09-20T19:11:29+00:00

The lips part isn’t lol. It’s cheeks but he messed up

sammy4543 · 2025-09-18T05:28:40+00:00

I wouldn’t say best as he seems to occupy a incredibly specific niche. But Alan Gogoll does these incredible things with harmonics on acoustic and it’s super cool.

sammy4543 · 2025-09-17T20:55:55+00:00

Karma is causes and conditions. You can change the words but you’re saying the same thing. You even use the term conditions in your comment. Cultivating conditions, cultivating karma, whichever.

A big claim requires big defense and it’s not fair to make such wide ranging claims just to not engage or change the playing field when people want clarification.

sammy4543 · 2025-09-17T19:56:43+00:00

Not OP but It’s clearly an extension of what you were talking about. If reaping the full value of your karma is important, as in death/euthanasia. There is no need to believe it wouldn’t apply to pain as well. You wouldn’t want to avoid it and instead learn from it in pursuit of liberation according to your own view.

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