It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
not the guitar....MINE!
getting on a bit and beginning to get some neck and temple pain from looking down at the guitar neck for hours at a time....any good post practice neck relief/exercise/stretching you can recommend?
many thanks
Victor the Giraffe
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
after awhile a quick glance at the board here and there should be all.
Put something at eye level in front of you when you're practising.
Currently I have the book I'm working through on a stand in front of me, which I consciously look at. Even when I'm just playing along with the CD, and it's the front cover.
Maybe also try to loosen your neck up a bit.
lean your head over to the left, then centre, then right, front, then back, do this 3-4 times, then do a couple of circles so you're doing all of these in one smooth, slow motion.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Don't suggest that viz, he'll do it naked.......
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
So, there’s no recipe for everyone. You feel a neck and you might notice a movement being blocked by just a couple of little joints, so you loosen them up, and the patient is as right as ninepence. An exercise can never replicate that.
Having said that, my “go to” exercise for the older neck is a combination of the movements of retraction and extension. These are often a bit limited. Tip: people tend to do them way too quickly. They don’t work if they’re done too quickly. There are probably examples on YT. Yep, here's one (and NB the cautions mentioned in it. They are important!) :
@hootsmon — consider seeing a therapist, we do this stuff all the time and it might be something we can sort out quite easily.
My YouTube Channel
He's not talking about playing guitar.......
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)