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#85198 - 09/04/05 11:25 AM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
[Re: jowe]
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Registered: 11/12/04
Loc: Horsham Pa.
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IMO, going to the chiropractor or taking (legal) drugs is going around the problem. Two things are possible:
1- The harness fits your in correctly. If you have Pearl equipment like my school, it's probably sucky and might be broke. Find a model online and make sure yours looks exactly like a new one does. My harness for indoor was a 'Frankenstien' harness, made of two extremely broke ones, and it broke at finals for a WGI regional... not fun when your playing bass 5.
2- You aren't strong enough. Now, I don't mean to be mean at all, but some people are more in shape than others. As chompchomp stated, stretch. It's the best thing you can do to make it easier.
I totally agree on the sucky harnesses (we go to the same school, and his drum was like hanging off of the harness). A good harness would help a lot, because it would actually be made correctly.
I never actually had a problem on bass drum with back pain. Maybe just a little with bass 3 because I was tiny in 9th grade, and the harnesses were bad. Now on snare I am having major back pain. I mean it could be that I am a girl and the vest harnesses suck for girls with a top, but it must sit on a nerve or something and hurts my whole left leg and my back. I fix that by just taking some hardcore ibeprophen before practice everyday. A massage never hurts either  .
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#85200 - 09/23/05 08:12 PM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
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Registered: 05/11/04
Loc: NC
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Put your hands on your knees and spreadem then bend over and let the back of your harness rest on your shoulder blades but let the drum hang....
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#85203 - 09/23/05 10:39 PM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
[Re: bacquads5]
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after a little wile in rehearsal my back pain usually goes away, but i don't know what to do about getting rid of it.
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#85204 - 09/24/05 05:29 PM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
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yea...I have same problem...neck too...I usually crack em during playing which is not a good thing.....I'd say get some icy-hot pad and put it on during playing....I haven't tryed it yet...but in theory that would help a whole lot..:)
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#85205 - 09/25/05 02:33 PM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
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Registered: 10/21/04
Loc: Toledo/Metamora, OH
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Back pain is horrible. I went from playing cymbals to first bass, from last year to this year, so I wasn't even ready for the weight of a bass drum. I'm only 5'0'', and pretty skinny, so carrying it was interesting. Our harnesses are really, really old (for whatever reason, tenors and snares got new harnesses three years ago when we got new Pearl drums, but the bass harnesses are from the last set of white ones, and are XL Lite somethingorother's, and incredibly uncomfortable) and don't fit well. But I eventually got over the pain by just getting used to it. I tend to take the drum off every so often and roll my shoulders and it provides a temporary relief. I don't know if I'm weird or what, but I 'prefer' the back pain to the pain in my arms I had from cymbals. That was totally not fun.
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#85207 - 09/25/05 05:31 PM
Re: Back pain!!!!!
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all i can say is build a bridge and get over it.... don't think about it... and it wont hurt trust me i martched bass 5 my freasman year and then tenors now... just deal with it.. the fat guys rule: don't complane about what you took on when you signed up... and fliping them up allways helps DCI is Better 
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