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Playing Guitar With Stiff Hands or Arthritis? Try This!

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Your guitar shouldn’t feel like a hand-strength contest, but a lot of players unknowingly make it one. We dig into the fastest ways to make guitar easier to play, starting with the stuff most people ignore: guitar setup, string action, and string gauge. If your strings sit too high or your neck hasn’t been adjusted in years, you’ll work harder for every note. And if your string gauge is heavier than it needs to be, bar chords and scales can feel brutal for no good reason.

From there, we get into the technique that changes everything: learning the “feather light”…

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