Great video, Amy! Thanks for sharing your experience and advice. I can personally attest to the topic about using hearing protection. I suffer from severe hearing loss and tinnitus in both ears. It's the typical high-freqency range loss, which is attributable to not wearing proper hearing protection when I was younger. This makes it very tough for me to learn songs by ear on the guitar. As you said, hearing loss is irreversible. The only help available is hearing aids, which are not all that helpful in many situations. I hope all of your younger viewers heed your sage advice!
Thanks, Fred! I'm sorry to hear (couldn't resist) about your severe hearing loss. We all lose some hearing over time, but most of it is preventable. Regrettably this aspect probably wasn't talked about enough until recently. But even now I know people who refuse to wear earplugs at concerts and I'm just like 🙃🙃🙃 I cannot stress this point enough: WEAR EARPLUGS. A young student of mine and his family mentioned they were going to see Neil Young back in May and I encouraged them to walk down to their local CVS (literally down the street from their house) to get earplugs not just for my young student, but for themselves and their older son. They listened and couldn't thank me enough the following week!
Great video, Amy! Thanks for sharing your experience and advice. I can personally attest to the topic about using hearing protection. I suffer from severe hearing loss and tinnitus in both ears. It's the typical high-freqency range loss, which is attributable to not wearing proper hearing protection when I was younger. This makes it very tough for me to learn songs by ear on the guitar. As you said, hearing loss is irreversible. The only help available is hearing aids, which are not all that helpful in many situations. I hope all of your younger viewers heed your sage advice!
Thanks, Fred! I'm sorry to hear (couldn't resist) about your severe hearing loss. We all lose some hearing over time, but most of it is preventable. Regrettably this aspect probably wasn't talked about enough until recently. But even now I know people who refuse to wear earplugs at concerts and I'm just like 🙃🙃🙃
I cannot stress this point enough: WEAR EARPLUGS. A young student of mine and his family mentioned they were going to see Neil Young back in May and I encouraged them to walk down to their local CVS (literally down the street from their house) to get earplugs not just for my young student, but for themselves and their older son. They listened and couldn't thank me enough the following week!