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View Poll Results: How do you wear your bass?? | |
Jazz high
|    | 53 | 41.09% | |
Punk low
|    | 6 | 4.65% | |
In the middle?
|    | 58 | 44.96% | |
I adjust my strap depending on the style of music I play
|    | 12 | 9.30% |
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07-13-2005, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | | How do you set your strap?
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Whether you wear your bass jazz high or punk low, it is all based on preference and your comfort level for playing. I never keep it consistant and always adjust my strap depending on the type of song I am playing. Does anyone else do this? |
07-13-2005, 11:01 AM
| | | | "Jazz high," if that's the word for it.
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07-13-2005, 11:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: new jersey | | | right undereath my belly. it falls kinda in the middlew i guess. |
07-13-2005, 11:09 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | Jazz high for me. I try to make sure that the middle part of my bass' 22nd fret matches the end of my sternum. |
07-13-2005, 11:11 AM
|  | I never worry. I'm fretless! | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | I used to play low...
Like Kris Novaselic Low... Like almost to my ankles low... ok.. not that low.. but you get the point.
Then I realized I played best while sitting down with my bass in my lap...
So all my straps are adjusted so that the bass sits more or less at the same place where it sits when I am sitting down.
It's not so high that I need to actually undo my strap to get it off (or look like an NFL lineman getting his pads on) and it's not low..
So I guess I play from my gut!
I use leather straps and straplocks, so adjustments are a pain in the butt. I adjust them.. and leave them... |
07-13-2005, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA | | | I adjust the strap, and thus the bass height relative to my body, so that the depression on the top rear of the bass is just at my lowest right rib.
I find this to be the best position for a balance between the amount of bend in the right vs. left wrists. |
07-13-2005, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by bassman314 Then I realized I played best while sitting down with my bass in my lap... | I agree with that, I could play pretty good when I was sitting down but I noticed that whenever I stood up to play it just sucked. So I adjusted my strap to where its exactly the same postion standing as it would be sitting down. Works like a charm!
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07-13-2005, 01:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bridgeport, CT | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cristo I adjust the strap, and thus the bass height relative to my body, so that the depression on the top rear of the bass is just at my lowest right rib.
I find this to be the best position for a balance between the amount of bend in the right vs. left wrists. | Yeah, that's about where I wear it...and angled so that the nut is about at eye level.
It's all about ergonomics. If you wear it lower, you have to pronate your left wrist too much to reach around the neck and fret cleanly. If you wear it much higher (or angle the neck down) then your right wrist is bent too much. Which I think is what Cristo was referring to.
Funny thing is, I didn't realize I needed to wear it higher until I saw a picture of myself playing. Something just looked wrong, so I raised it up about four or five inches. Much better now, though it did take a little bit of getting used to.
Speaking of appearances, if you're short like me (5'7" on a good day), wearing such a large instrument really low looks plain thtoopid. Wearing it higher makes you look taller.
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07-13-2005, 01:39 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | I have it maybe an inch (or less) lower than the level it would be when I'm sitting down. I don't like it to move too much between sitting down and standing up. And I also find it harder to slap if it's too low.
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07-13-2005, 01:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Dark Side of the Moon | | | I hav it so the upper horn is over my pectorals. the same as when im sitting and playing.
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07-13-2005, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: san fran bay area | | I play a jazz bass the and its set up where the cut out matches my belly output its really comfortable. 
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07-13-2005, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Jersey | | | How do you wear your bass?
I agree with adouglass. Setting the nut at eye level seems to be the best for both hands. I can play four sets without either hand getting cramps or overly tired. |
07-13-2005, 02:38 PM
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I keep it the same as if I am sitting, or just slightly higher. |
07-13-2005, 02:48 PM
| | Workin' up a black sweat. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Andover, MA | | | I set my strat to 34" from hole to hole. I wear it very high.
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07-13-2005, 03:01 PM
| | | | I have little tip of how i adjust my strap. I put my thumb in my navel/belly button and right below my thumb should the bass be. It's just the right length for me comfortably. |
07-13-2005, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | Lo-mid.
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07-13-2005, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brampton, Ontario | | | I play "jazz-high." i used to play punk rock hang her low or dont play at all, but then after playing a show i realize dhow much my wrist hurt. Normallly when i get a new strap or bass, i set it up so that if the strap were to be on when i play sitting down it isnt sitting on my lap, its hanging there by a tad. Thus i dont use a starp when sitting down, but when standing its a little higher then when sitting. Also my two fives(washburn and fender jazz) are a little higher then my 4 jazz or my 4 p-bass.
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07-13-2005, 04:05 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | The portion of the body between the pups is at my belt level. |
07-13-2005, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | The bottom of my strap is above my belt buckle. Sooooooo easy to play.
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07-13-2005, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Iowa | | | As low as the strap will go. I've played like this since day one and I feel strange having it up high and I cramp up fast when it's Jazz high.
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