BarbaraM
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I feel your pain! I too, am a newbie to all this, and I am in the 5th week of the 30 Days, working on the 3rd week’s lessons. I practice about 20+ minutes every day, though sometimes if my wrist or fingers are too sore I will do less. But I pick up that guitar and tune it and do *something* every day. I too struggle with reaching some of the chords (I may never get C cleanly, but who knows–I won’t ever tell myself “I can’t”). Everyone here has been super encouraging, and while you may think, yeah sure, they’ve been at it a while, I am here to tell you if I can see improvement as a beginner with some arthritis, then you can too. It’s all about mindset. And I am having a blast!
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OK, I went back to the chord practice and found a way to keep my fat fingers out of the way, more or less. But is there a quicker way to toughen up the fingers? I can’t play more than a few minutes without pain.
But it looks like you guys are right (from reading responses to others’ queries); what seemed literally impossible at first suddenly became possible. So that’s my win for today!
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The capo disappeared with my old guitar, but I have seen fairly inexpensive ones on Amazon. Never thought to try something like that. Thanks!
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Thanks drew.sudell, that is exactly what I need! I need something to look at while I’m trying to follow the video and search for the frets/strings at the same time!