What's your "Bass Stance"

[Beginner Bass]

I realized recently that when playing, I tend to take a certain position. It usually involves putting my right foot forward about a 1/2 foot, andshifting my weight to my left. So what's yours?

[Dymond-]

Depends on the type of the music. Theres so many, can't really say I have just one.

[StereoPlayer]

rigor mortise, slack jaw

[HarlequinsRugby]

I like to wear my bass around my hip, and I tend to have abit of a lean on my right foot. But when its something like Muse I get the head bang going and everything, total change of posture

[T40Chump]

I look like a freekin' neanderthal hunkering over a bass. Looking at band pics I realize how stupid I look.

[elgecko]

If the song is rocking, I'll get happy feet and start dancing. If you can't make yourself dance, how do expect to make other people dance?

[Luckie]

I do the singing round 'chere, so my stance is based on keeping my head by the mic.
I look tiny in this picture, mainly because I am.

[Invisible_Sun]

I usually stand normally, with my feet a little farther apart than I would just standing around. If I'm rocking, I'll put my left foot forward (like a boxing stance). It makes headbanging easier.

[J. Crawford]

Like that.

[maturanesa]

i tend to move my right hand far away from the bass when i play a long note, and then put it again on place. I dont know why, maybe i feel i bit fool playing a long note and holding the right hand attached to the bass....

[Tmoney865]

Vertical. Anything closer to horizontal causes gravity to mute out the strings against the frets since the action is so low

[zachoff]

I move around a lot but it's generally like this:

[SantiagoGT15]

mmmm I have the same stance as yours , but sometimes I switch to one in which I put my feet together and do bass faces and stuff ... kinda sad , once I tried jumping and stuff...and it didn't end well , so I'll keep my "standard" stances

[CameronPutnam]

Does running around headbanging and hardcore dancing count?

[IncX]

i shift between gay and power stances .. i can post videos, but naaahhh ... i dont think its that interesting

[Tmoney865]

When I played the Icthus Fest. I was jumping onto the drummers stage and banging my head against his symbols.

Being in front of 10K people tends to make some tension

[OOZMAN]

Left foot forward, legs a little far apart, mainly use a pick so wrist and elbow angle are different, also bass at a pretty steep angle... tongue (with peircing) out alot of the time...

What metal player? I don't mean to look so metal, but its just comfortable for me

The only un-metal look i have is my bass hangs at a slightly higher level, to reach the upper frets. Hence the steep angle too

[jugglingfreak]

Originally Posted by Beginner Bass

I realized recently that when playing, I tend to take a certain position. It usually involves putting my right foot forward about a 1/2 foot, andshifting my weight to my left. So what's yours?

Similar to yours, except left foot forward, weight on right.

I don't play gigs, so I'm usually in my house. A lot of the time left foot is up on the couch or a chair or something.

Even though I'm at home, I rarely sit down to play..

[john m]

I bring a folding stool and sit down when ever possible.

When I sing, I stand up for better diaphramatic support.

(I just made that word up).

[Rob22315]

My right hip has some issues so I try to stand with my feet pointed forward, shoulder width apart. If I don't - e.g. if I stand with my feet pointed in odd directions or with my weight unevenly distributed, my right hip lets me know after about 10 minutes. Boring I know, but I play in church so we're not really there for show.