How can I avoid shoulder/back pain when practicing?
Steph asked this: How can I avoid shoulder/back pain when practicing?
- Something I’m working on too
- Check in with your body throughout a practice session
- Pay attention to the body and breath
- Lower your shoulder. Practice with this on open strings
- Use a Bonmusica shoulder rest
- Take frequent breaks and stretching
- Practice in 20-minute blocks
- Twenty minutes on, then a few minutes break. Or practice another 20-minute block later in the day
- Breathing exercises
Further learning
This micro-lesson is an excerpt from an office hours webinar I gave on July 15, 2020. View the entire live-stream with indexed questions here.
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