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Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
If choosing the wrong guitar with arthritis feels like wearing shoes two sizes too small, you’re not wrong you can force it, but you’ll pay for it later. After years of working wi…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Before we even get to your hands, or shoulders or even your spine, we need to talk about your feet. I know. You're sitting down when you play most of the time. Your feet aren't do…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Adaptive guitar techniques for stiff hands, limited mobility or changing bodies: 12 ways to adapt chords, setup, tuning and technique.
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Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
I was strangling the fretboard. Not metaphorically. Literally gripping it like I was trying to choke the sound out of the strings. A pure white-knuckle situation on every chord ch…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
The Body-Friendly Rig Your gear should support your playing, not fight it. Every piece of equipment creates either ease or effort. This post shows you how to build a rig t…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Steel strings might sound brighter. But if your hands hurt after twenty minutes, what's the point? You're standing in the music store or maybe scrolling online. Trying to figure o…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Your Environment Is Either Working With Your Body or Against It Do you practice in the same spot each time? Is it the couch? Maybe it's your desk chair. Maybe it's that old stool…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
My lower back made the decision before my brain did. I'd been coaching for about three hours straight, sitting in this wooden chair I'd picked up at a charity shop because it "loo…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Here's something nobody tells you when you start dealing with hand pain or stiffness from playing guitar: Sometimes, it's not you. It's your gear. I know. You've been working on…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
Your body is part of the instrument. Treat it like one. The short version The Guitarist's Body Blueprint Your body isn't separate from your music — it's the instrument th…
Setup, Ergonomics & Adaptive Playing
You sit down to play because you love music but your body taps out before your heart does. You’re not weak. You’re experiencing what most guitarists face at some point: discomfort…
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