Posture and angle

**BullHorn** · #1 06-24-2011, 05:22 PM

What I mean to ask here is not the angle of the neck compared to the floor.

What I actually want to know is the angle of the bass' body against your own body. I found that having the bass slightly to my right is the most 'comfortable' 'natural' way but i causes me trouble moving around the neck because it has less 'traction' against my body and every movement on the neck moves the entire bass. Going up the neck moves the bass ever further right, going down the neck bring the bass to my left.

Hanging the bass to the left hurts my neck when I'm trying to look at the fretboard...

So, how do you hang your bass?

JimmyM · #2 06-25-2011, 12:07 AM

Got to find a happy medium. Mine goes to the right a little but not radically so. Experiment around till you're happy.

**BullHorn** · #3 06-25-2011, 04:50 AM

Oh, I've been doing that for 5 years. Anything bass-related I do feels ergonomically-wrong and it's driving me nuts.

Bass slung high, bass slung low, angled right, angled left, dead center, neck aimed up, neck aimed straight, different basses, whatever.

I want to play bass but every day I pick it up and find reasons to put it back down.