How to improve playing while standing?

[countandduke]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

I think too many players wear the guitar slung WAY TOO low!! I have to have mine slung pretty high but I don't care what I look like as long as I can play what I want to. Look at Vernon Reid and Tom Morello............

[zeegler]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

I cannot play sitting down anymore. Years ago I realized that I had difficulty playing while standing, so I stopped sitting down period. It's helpful if you have a guitar that is balsnced well, and doesn't have a tendency to nosedive.

It's the same thing with how high you have the guitar when standing. If you are used to it high, it's very difficult to play with it low, and vice versa. I decided a long time ago that it looks ludicrous when you have your guitar tucked under your armpit, so I adjusted my strap over time so my guitar hung lower, and hence I looked MUCH cooler while playing. I don't have it down to my knees or anything silly, but definitely low enough to look way cooler than you. [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[tigertailz]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

just got to practice standing i never play sitting
when im on the electric, you will giving time get
much better you just have to get used to playing
standing.when i was younger i played sitting but when
i was in a band i had to get better standing up .start
of with the strap pretty short and make it longer till
you find the length your happy with

[Chameleonfong]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

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My guitar teacher wears the guitar strap when sitting too. He sits in the chair with legs wide open () and his guitar in between his legs. I tried this, but I'm too damn skinny and the guitar hangs WAY down, whereas he's a bit larger than I am and his belly helps to support the guitar in a good playing position. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Get a KV or a RR and the sitting problem's solve. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]


Fong

[joblo1978]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

Some good info here, I've recently discovered that playing standing and sitting are different and I have a Rhoads. Recently I've been sitting with the strap.

It's hard to stand and read music/tab while playing.

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

I raise the height on my music stand. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[delt]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

First off, the correct way to hold a conventional shaped guitar when sitting down is with the inward "bump" on your LEFT leg, and a footstool under your left foot. If you play with the instrument on your right lap, you need to re-learn how to play, and properly this time, before calling yourself a guitarist.

There's no way around this - either you hold the guitar properly, or your playing technique is severely handicapped and you get nowhere. Personally i was fortunate to learn this when i was 14 years old, that's when i started making any serious progress in my playing...... and started playing anything else than metallica riffs with 2 fingers.

[VitaminG]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

really? So if I play with the guitar on my right leg, I'm not really a guitarist?

[Chameleonfong]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

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If you play with the instrument on your right lap, you need to re-learn how to play, and properly this time, before calling yourself a guitarist.

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Hmmm... I guess Yngwie, Paul Gilbert and Tony Macalpine can't calling themselves guitarists because they play the guitar on their RIGHT lap. [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]

So if you're a "guitarist" compared to them, why don't i recall seeing your cd in CD store? [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]

Fong

[The Chase]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

Take it easy, Phuong

[Emthrax]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

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First off, the correct way to hold a conventional shaped guitar when sitting down is with the inward "bump" on your LEFT leg, and a footstool under your left foot.

There's no way around this - either you hold the guitar properly, or your playing technique is severely handicapped and you get nowhere.

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This is bullshit. Sorry, dude. But it is. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I play both standing and sitting and when sitting the guitar rests on my right leg. No stool! Sometimes I even cross my legs! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Sometimes my right foot rests on my left foot (how my teacher taught me, actually)! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]
AND AND, sometimes I play laying down, or sitting right smack on the floor.
And I've progressed just fine, thank you very much.

With this kind of reasoning one could also say that if you're a lefty and play a "modified" guitar then you are also not a guitarist. Whatever. [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

If you love the guitar, and you can play it and are comfortable with how you make your magic happen then you ARE a guitarist. [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]
Just my two cents.

Em

[Jacksonfan]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

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First off, the correct way to hold a conventional shaped guitar when sitting down is with the inward "bump" on your LEFT leg, and a footstool under your left foot.

There's no way around this - either you hold the guitar properly, or your playing technique is severely handicapped and you get nowhere.

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This is bullshit. Sorry, dude. But it is. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I play both standing and sitting and when sitting the guitar rests on my right leg. No stool! Sometimes I even cross my legs! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Sometimes my right foot rests on my left foot (how my teacher taught me, actually)! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]
AND AND, sometimes I play laying down, or sitting right smack on the floor.
And I've progressed just fine, thank you very much.

With this kind of reasoning one could also say that if you're a lefty and play a "modified" guitar then you are also not a guitarist. Whatever. [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

If you love the guitar, and you can play it and are comfortable with how you make your magic happen then you ARE a guitarist. [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]
Just my two cents.

Em

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[img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] Right On!!! Everyone has their own style, and if it works for you, that's all that matters.

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Think about all those guitar heros who play the guitar behind their heads. They're obviously doing it wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[delt]

Re: How to improve playing while standing?

> I play both standing and sitting and when sitting the guitar rests on my right leg.

That,s the most straightforward, but WRONG approach. or maybe i just spent too much time playing classical guitar..........