Aging doesn't mean the end of your playing. Whether you are managing osteoarthritis or general joint stiffness, these articles focus on "Joint-Friendly" guitar mechanics. Discover how to adapt your technique and environment to support your body, so you can keep playing for decades to come.
Longevity & Arthritis
The short version Anti-Inflammatory Habits That Actually Support Your Guitar Playing Most advice for guitarists with sore hands focuses on what happens at the guitar. Li…
Longevity & Arthritis
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…
Longevity & Arthritis
Two Minutes That Change How Your Hands Feel for the Next Hour This is more than another generic warm up, this is waking your hands up so they actually listen. Have you ever sat d…
Practice Ergonomics
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…
Hand & Wrist Health
Most guitarists over 40 aren’t dealing with “just hand pain.” They’re often fighting three very different tension patterns and that creep in after years of stop-and-start playing.…
The Gentle Octaves Method
The hardest part isn't the pain. It's trusting yourself again.
Practice Ergonomics
If you’ve ever felt stiff, sore, or awkward after a practice session you’re definitely not alone. Most guitarists over 40 experience some kind of postural tension when playing guit…
Longevity & Arthritis
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…
Longevity & Arthritis
You don't have to quit guitar just because your hands are giving you grief. So you've been playing for a while now, maybe decades, maybe just a few years and somewhere along the w…
Longevity & Arthritis
You know that F chord? The full barre, thumb crushing into the back of the neck, index finger flattened across all six strings like you're trying to squeeze juice from a stone one?…
Longevity & Arthritis
Sensitive and stiff joints don’t mean the music has to stop. They do mean you need to change how you move. As both a guitarist and a movement specialist with training in manual os…
Mindset & Performance
You pick up your guitar and your fingers start to ache. Maybe your joints whisper your too old or your body resists movement you once took for granted. You tell yourself, “Maybe Im…
