u/this_sminks

Hi, I am investigating how accessible learning to play a guitar could be for me. I have a stupid amount of fatigue related health conditions and wide spread pain. My hands are particularly painful at times. Learning to play guitar has been a life long dream of mine and as I grow older I’m more worried that it just won’t be possible.

I’m wondering if anyone who is disabled/ requires accessibility adaptations to play can give me any advice. Is this just a very foolish dream that I’ll never truly get to even try or are there adaptations or even types of guitar I should seriously investigate.

I’m not looking to buy gadgets and quick fixes/ cheats or to buy a guitar for it to gather dust and I’m also not looking to be able to play for anyone’s entertainment but my own.

I’m very focused on providing myself with opportunities to have moments of joy and improve my quality of life by learning, creating and taking my time to work on projects I genuinely adore.

So this isn’t a ‘how fast’ can I do it or ‘cheats’ way- more of a ‘hey, does anyone else who lives with pain and fatigue play and can you offer me advice’. I’m not stuck on any type of guitar either but I have wondered if a tenor guitar would be good because less strings and small neck (I think?). I know it’s kind of considered not quite a guitar or a uke so it might be good to try?

My music knowledge is 4/5 years of trumpet playing when I was a kid and tween, I could read music pretty well but I’m very rusty now. Only ever played a few power cords on a friend’s guitar or ukulele. Willing to put in the effort and time but genuinely wanting to know if it’s possible.

Many thanks for reading this essay and appreciate any and all feedback. ❤️

This is kind of a stupid post but, I finally got to 100 nights. It’s been such a freakin’ slog.

I died about a million times in my 100 game and each time I died I was convinced that the person I was playing with would finally leave me for dead, but I’m so thankful they didn’t!

I can’t get the username because my iPad died. I wanted to actually thank them too.

Hopefully they know they’re awesome.

I like playing with whoever wants to play so sometimes I get folk who leave after 2 nights or mess around with crafting billions of useless things- eventually they leave and I’m on my own.

I’ve managed to team up with a few really helpful random people and I genuinely try to be as helpful as I can too.

Just wanted to post some positive appreciation for those who actually help others even when they’re flappin’ around getting killed by everything. (Seriously twice with lightening)

What do you keep your collection in? My kid keeps hers in glass jars separated by colour but I kind of want to display mine or go full whimsy and get a wooden trinket box…

If I did display my sea glass I think I’d go with a shadow box frame or trinket shelf/ up cycled thimble shelf- I did see one on eBay that was the shape of the uk and I wondered if I could collect a piece from each coastline and display them.

If you have any examples do you mind posting them? It’s so specific to display/ organise because you truly do want to see your collection and none of them are equal size! 😅