I just remembered, I play with 3 fingers.

[Darin]

Most people can't tell. And I've been doing it for a while, since the horrible skill-saw incident took off the end of my 3rd finger. I hated to play in front of people for a while because I thought it was pretty darn freaky myself. And I did get strange looks the moment someone noticed.
Anyway, here it is, playing with 3 fingers on my left hand. The funny part is, When I'm sharing riffs with someone, and they see me play it up close, it's usually alot different, since I don't use my 3rd finger at all. And the same when I'm trying to learn a new riff that's has 4 notes on a string and some arpeggios. No try playing for 15 mins without your 3rd finger. You'll get an idea of what I had to learn.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oID=2014002977

[S-man]

Awesome man. Sorry to hear about the accident. I have always worried about something like that happening. There was a guy just yesterday that was complaining about his small hands...he should check out your thread.

People are capable amazing things when they set thier minds to it.

I commend you.

[GilkyBear]

Great job Dude. It probably wouldn't cheer you up to say that's one more than Django Reinhardt had.

[OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S]

The main thing is that you don't quit!!! just look at what happened to Tony Iommi!!!

[sick-boy]

So you don't use it at all? Ever thought about popping a slide on that finger?
I figure since you don't use the finger at all you could always have a slide handy.

BTW, that's a great story of human perseverence. Thanks for sharing!

[Darin]

I actually cut a sizable chunk off my middle finger too. But the doctors knew I was a guitar player and brought in a specialist. He actually made a new tip for my finger out of part of my hand. It was amazing and took months to finish. My pinky was cut badly as well. I wasn't playing at all for some time. But my pinky healed first, so I played with my index and pinky as best I could for a few months with my other fingers bandaged up. So then GETTING to use another finger was a bonus. I had a 'prosthetic' rubber epoxy thing made more my 3rd finger I used for a while, but I couldn't feel the string. That was out. And it hurt like crazy to let it touch the fret board otherwise. I even tried left-handed for a couple days. That was impossible. So I just kept playing with 3 fingers. I accidentally used the 3rd to grab a bend a couple times practically yelling in pain before it was all healed. I think that was the clincher NOT to use it. I can use it now for bar chords if I need to. But it's short and goofy so it wont really work for running scales. You make due. I'm glad to be able to play. And to be honest, as a Christian. I thank God for sparing my other fingers. When it happened, as I was running toward the car blood shooting from the end of 2 fingers, I was so disappointed that I would never play again, ever. It just didn't seem possible after seeing my fingers all chopped up. And I was in a regularly playing band. But here it is years later and I still love playing.

Thanks for the kind words guys.

-Darin Warren
http://www.myspace.com/darinwarren
http://www.myspace.com/hookknife