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Chapter 10 Play for the Long Haul

"​The beauty of music is that it stays with us."

— Frets Halligan, ukulele player and teacher 
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 Eleven Tips for the Long Haul 
  1. Prevent injury by improving technique
  2. Get a teacher to identify and solve problems
  3. Learn the Alexander Technique
  4. Seek help early in case of injury
  5. Practice for shorter, more frequent sessions
  6. Simplify techniques or arrangements
  7. Switch to new instruments
  8. Use products that support and protect
  9. Modify singing exercises and avoid damaging habits
  10. Try different learning methods
  11. Develop new goals

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      • Powers of Two
      • A Father's Spring
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    • Funny? >
      • A Treatise on Farting
      • All Steamed Up
      • Puppy Camera
    • Mortality >
      • Dead Bodies
      • Being Whole
      • Shaken Ground
      • Soft Spot
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      • Just One Thumb
      • Everything's in Color
      • Becoming Human
      • The Immortal Years
      • The Cost of Jury Duty
      • Broken Bones
    • Home >
      • Brick by Brick
      • Best not to Know
      • The Bouquet
    • Chapbook Collection: "Finite" >
      • The Buffet
      • Girls in Their Summer Dresses
      • Puppy Camera
      • Deer Hoof
      • The Fireplace
      • Summer Cooking
      • Gardner
      • The Bouquet
      • Sandwiches
      • Rugelach
      • Inheritance
      • Kneed
      • Dead Bodies
      • Snapshot or Video
      • January
      • Phyllis
      • Being Whole
      • The Immortal Years
      • Practice
      • Falling
  • Fiction
    • Enraptured
    • Buried Treasure
    • Soaring
    • Evening
  • Contact