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Hi @elisabethajgmail-com Shoulders wrong load. Posture with a neutral, slight curve lower spine, neck tall, shoulders down. The idea here is getting used to feeling your load distribution evenly on your collarbones and scapula. By keeping the shoulders down you give the most free range of motion for your upper arm bone (humerus) to rotate. Imagine your arms spanning out equally from your body while you play, right arm rotates inwardly while the left rotates outwardly. Practice holding your guitar and finding this balance place as if you were going to fly (without playing the guitar, just holding). Lastly the neutral position of balance between collar bones and scapula is super hard to achieve if you are looking at your hands. That little bit will shift you balance point toward you back and put extra stress on your trapezius.You may also find this may cause some neck pain that may eventually make its way into your rotator cuff (shoulder) Stretching can help with this a gentle long stretch, stretching the head side to side keeping the shoulders low as you do.