Pain in winter as a result of injuries is a funny thing in my experience. Granted, I’ve dislocated both knees but haven’t had anything scarring.
Anyway, for me, the worst pain in winter is from sudden temperature changes, mostly when it drops 15-20 degrees overnight. Then, my knees ache something fierce. But when I was in a place with more typical, gradual change in temp with consistently cold days (as opposed to the hyperactive rabbit on drugs that is California weather), my knees were kinda sore sometimes, but not anything really too bad.
but as I said, scarred injuries might be very different from damaged ligaments.
I have a little one on my hand and it always tingle-stings in winter.
Lenora
I have a few scars on my torso (one from heart surgery one from being stabbed), and the one scar from surgery never hurts really but my rips get hella sore because they developed pretty wonky (my rips are like a D shape if that makes sense) and my organs that got injured from being stabbed hurt a ton when I get sick but aren’t affected much by cold.
BBCC
Yeah, from what I know, it’s more likely to hurt A) If the scar is wonky (mine’s really bumpy) or B) With bone damage (which, since the knife went THROUGH her hand, there almost certainly was).
I have a scar on my hand from a saw… it hurt in the winter for about two years (even in Texas baby-winter), then it stopped. Hasn’t returned even after moving to a place with slightly colder winters.
Given we’re all like, 80% sure it was tendon and bone damage? Yeah, gotta be unpleasant. Oof.
But still. She’s happy! She’s playing music again! She’s presumably training herself to do so while accounting for that injury! I am also dead from cute.
Played till my fingers bled, was the summer of ’69
Needfuldoer
That song’s a staple of the “local band plays music at the town bandstand during the summer” setlist and I don’t know why.
Demoted Oblivious
Well Adam’s rendition is pretty awesome. And for me it also has notes of hometown boy done good. That said, to answer your question hypothetically:
– Your local band likes it.
– They’re good at playing it.
– It’s about summer
– It’s popular with the townsfolk
– Gigamesh and Yogsothoth like to make flesh puppets dance their souls away in the dying of the light when the moist air is heavy enough to carry the smell across the shadows boundary.
I would be surprised. She seems to have little trouble with actual hand dexterity with that hand despite the wound. She was, after all, able to trade training in Mario Kart for Algebra lessons. Besides, learning to play left handed is a bongo. Many left handed guitarist simply choose to learn to play right handed as it is simpler to learn it that way.
Actually, which hand was stabbed? If it is the right hand, I think trying to play left handed would be far more problematic. Working the fret board requires a lot of dexterity and flexibility. One has a large number of options for strumming a guitar if nerve damage makes holding a pick an issue.
People who are right-handed (like myself) generally play the guitar with the neck and fretboard in their left hand; they train their left hand to do their will. And as you noted, many left-handers play the guitar that same way since if it ‘easier’ to learn if you are doing things like everybody else instead of mirror-imaging it, which would also include re-stringing the guitar ‘backwards’. But not everybody followed conventional wisdom. There are some who did it ‘backwards’; Paul McCartney of the Beatles is one of the best examples.
So it just comes down not so much to manual dexterity as it does to what you get used to.
Geneseepaws
Paul was one of the best, yes. But I believe Jimmy Hendrix,… Is the Record Holder for excellence with the guitar, just no words to.
Dean
Jimi Hendrix strung his right-handed guitar upside down and played it left-handed.
Yep. He trusted the mass-producedness of the RH guitars.
It did make it harder for him to get the last few frets on the high strings (asymmetrical shape around the fretboard) but he had huge hands and lots of talent, and it didn’t hold him back (to put it mildly).
David Adler
The weird thing about McCartney is that, although he plays guitar/bass left-handed, he’s actually right-handed when it come to other things.
In other news, Hendrix apparently played right-handed guitars flipped, rather than purpose-made left-handed ones, which some have credited with producing his particular tone.
Dr. T
Playing a restrung, flipped RH guitar makes bending notes easier on some guitar designs like the Fenders that Jimi liked to play.
Ed Rhodes
I do that! (Although, when I failed at learning guitar, I held it right handed) I eat and write lefty, everything else is done with my right hand.
It’s nice to see Sal smile again, but I’m slightly worried; her hand’s definitely gonna be sore due to the weather. Hell, my elbow turns sore whenever it even rains.
Not much, and when it does it wrecks EVERYTHING. My brother-in-law moved to Alabama and said that whenever they get 1/4″ of snow the sheer volume of automobile accidents that occur because no one has a clue how to handle it is staggering.
I’ve lived my entire life so far in a part of the Midwest where we get a decent amount of snow every winter, and there are still people here who don’t seem to know how to drive when it snows.
MaximumZero
Same here, in Michigan. One day on my commute to work (about 35 miles) I saw 13 wrecks. 12 on the way home. It’s ridiculous.
150 thoughts on “Guitar”
Ana Chronistic
wish I could do that
…
ex’s “friend” ran off with my guitar )=|
a/snow/mous/e
Oof.
pdp15
You only had one guitar? That’s your first problem…
Michael Steamweed
But one guitar can just blow you away; you see stars in your eyes, and the very next day…
Olav
You buy a beat up six string in a second hand store; don’t know how to play it, but you know for sure…
UncolaMan
That one guitar feels good in your hands;
doesn’t take long to understand…
GeekRyuu
Just one guitar slung way down low?
He Who Abides
It’s a one-way ticket, only one way to go.
Keulen
I had a guitar once when I was a kid, but I never bothered to learn how to play it and we sold it or something.
RacingTurtle
Who fucking does that? What an inconsiderate pustule
Geneseepaws
THAT! Is a capital offense. As in Capital. I say off with it’s head! Pustule is a little weak, I think. How about scrofulous pustule?
Doctor_Who
“Anyway, here’s Wonderbread.”
(Danny appears)
Pablo360
danny never answers his texts so that’s the only reliable way to get in contact with him
Lingo
Danny: “Wow, I’ve never seen a ukelele that big!”
AndieStardust
I love this comment so much
Jezzeh!
This comment is wholly underrated. <3
Doc Harleen
It’s nice seeing Sal smile.
Inkyzuzi
Yeah, I hope she’s been keeping up with Marcie and that maybe she’s been opening up to more people (in a healthy way)
Undrave
I wonder if Marcie made progress with Malaya?
Beepo
Yeah, I want to print & frame this one
Lenora
Did Sal quit smoking?
Mobcat
I hope
BBCC
A) Too happy, iz ded.
B) Her hand has to hurt like hell in the winter. Oof.
KaitouKidisBae
Pain in winter as a result of injuries is a funny thing in my experience. Granted, I’ve dislocated both knees but haven’t had anything scarring.
Anyway, for me, the worst pain in winter is from sudden temperature changes, mostly when it drops 15-20 degrees overnight. Then, my knees ache something fierce. But when I was in a place with more typical, gradual change in temp with consistently cold days (as opposed to the hyperactive rabbit on drugs that is California weather), my knees were kinda sore sometimes, but not anything really too bad.
but as I said, scarred injuries might be very different from damaged ligaments.
BBCC
I have a little one on my hand and it always tingle-stings in winter.
Lenora
I have a few scars on my torso (one from heart surgery one from being stabbed), and the one scar from surgery never hurts really but my rips get hella sore because they developed pretty wonky (my rips are like a D shape if that makes sense) and my organs that got injured from being stabbed hurt a ton when I get sick but aren’t affected much by cold.
BBCC
Yeah, from what I know, it’s more likely to hurt A) If the scar is wonky (mine’s really bumpy) or B) With bone damage (which, since the knife went THROUGH her hand, there almost certainly was).
Pimellon
I have a scar on my hand from a saw… it hurt in the winter for about two years (even in Texas baby-winter), then it stopped. Hasn’t returned even after moving to a place with slightly colder winters.
BBCC
Yay! It’s the pits.
Regalli
Given we’re all like, 80% sure it was tendon and bone damage? Yeah, gotta be unpleasant. Oof.
But still. She’s happy! She’s playing music again! She’s presumably training herself to do so while accounting for that injury! I am also dead from cute.
TheKelliestKelly
This makes me really happy
Kravis
SOOOOOOO… MEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
Stephen Bierce
I got my first real six string
Bought at the Five & Dime…
Demoted Oblivious
Played till my fingers bled, was the summer of ’69
Needfuldoer
That song’s a staple of the “local band plays music at the town bandstand during the summer” setlist and I don’t know why.
Demoted Oblivious
Well Adam’s rendition is pretty awesome. And for me it also has notes of hometown boy done good. That said, to answer your question hypothetically:
– Your local band likes it.
– They’re good at playing it.
– It’s about summer
– It’s popular with the townsfolk
– Gigamesh and Yogsothoth like to make flesh puppets dance their souls away in the dying of the light when the moist air is heavy enough to carry the smell across the shadows boundary.
Keulen
the world is gonna roll me, I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
Cholma
Last panel made me think of Peanuts gang catching snowflakes on their tongues.
mm-s
I heard the music behind that scene!
Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt
Now I do too!
Needfuldoer
It’s January, so they should be ripe.
Deanatay
Plays “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi
Lieutenant Dan
I’m hearing the instrumental version of “Christmas Time is Here”.
saltchocolate
LET IT
leaf
Go inside, you’re gonna ruin your guitar
Jay M Ferguson
Every once in a while, you come across a strip that’s just perfect. Nothing could possibly be added to make it better.
Danke.
Whirlwitch
Does she play left-handed because of the hand injury?
Dr. T
I would be surprised. She seems to have little trouble with actual hand dexterity with that hand despite the wound. She was, after all, able to trade training in Mario Kart for Algebra lessons. Besides, learning to play left handed is a bongo. Many left handed guitarist simply choose to learn to play right handed as it is simpler to learn it that way.
Dr. T
Actually, which hand was stabbed? If it is the right hand, I think trying to play left handed would be far more problematic. Working the fret board requires a lot of dexterity and flexibility. One has a large number of options for strumming a guitar if nerve damage makes holding a pick an issue.
BBCC
Right hand, but she was left handed before the stabbing too (she held the knife in her left hand).
Bicycle Bill
People who are right-handed (like myself) generally play the guitar with the neck and fretboard in their left hand; they train their left hand to do their will. And as you noted, many left-handers play the guitar that same way since if it ‘easier’ to learn if you are doing things like everybody else instead of mirror-imaging it, which would also include re-stringing the guitar ‘backwards’. But not everybody followed conventional wisdom. There are some who did it ‘backwards’; Paul McCartney of the Beatles is one of the best examples.
So it just comes down not so much to manual dexterity as it does to what you get used to.
Geneseepaws
Paul was one of the best, yes. But I believe Jimmy Hendrix,… Is the Record Holder for excellence with the guitar, just no words to.
Dean
Jimi Hendrix strung his right-handed guitar upside down and played it left-handed.
ValdVin
Yep. He trusted the mass-producedness of the RH guitars.
It did make it harder for him to get the last few frets on the high strings (asymmetrical shape around the fretboard) but he had huge hands and lots of talent, and it didn’t hold him back (to put it mildly).
David Adler
The weird thing about McCartney is that, although he plays guitar/bass left-handed, he’s actually right-handed when it come to other things.
In other news, Hendrix apparently played right-handed guitars flipped, rather than purpose-made left-handed ones, which some have credited with producing his particular tone.
Dr. T
Playing a restrung, flipped RH guitar makes bending notes easier on some guitar designs like the Fenders that Jimi liked to play.
Ed Rhodes
I do that! (Although, when I failed at learning guitar, I held it right handed) I eat and write lefty, everything else is done with my right hand.
Lewi
It’s nice to see Sal smile again, but I’m slightly worried; her hand’s definitely gonna be sore due to the weather. Hell, my elbow turns sore whenever it even rains.
Vince
Going off of the hover text:
Informer…..
MegaBee
Licky boom boom down
vlademir1
Sal/Yuki OTP confirmed.
;D
abysswatcher1993
The snow lady?
Axel
Aw, I wonder when she last saw snow.
Axel
okay I forgot the time skip and that it has probably snowed other days
Rectilinear Propagation
Still, she spent so much time in the South that maybe the novelty hasn’t worn off.
abysswatcher1993
Cue to the Life is Strange soundtrack.
Johan
Doesn’t snow much in the south huh?
Dr. T
Not much, and when it does it wrecks EVERYTHING. My brother-in-law moved to Alabama and said that whenever they get 1/4″ of snow the sheer volume of automobile accidents that occur because no one has a clue how to handle it is staggering.
Keulen
I’ve lived my entire life so far in a part of the Midwest where we get a decent amount of snow every winter, and there are still people here who don’t seem to know how to drive when it snows.
MaximumZero
Same here, in Michigan. One day on my commute to work (about 35 miles) I saw 13 wrecks. 12 on the way home. It’s ridiculous.
Needfuldoer