Do ya wear it high, or sling it low...?

[ryanphonic]

As far as I'm concerned, if you're in a rock or metal band and you're not covering your junk, you're doing it wrong.

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*obviously whatever works for you. But any higher than belt-buckle and I feel like a jazz or reggae guy.

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[grifff]

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Like that.

Or this:

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[bass4worship]

That's right about where mine sits.

That a bad angle for your wrist to be in. You going to do damage to it.. Believe me.

 

[JoeBelc]

Mine varies on my mood and how my back feels atm. But generally about where it would hang if I was sitting straight up and the bass was sitting in my lap.

 

[KaizerWilhelm]

Here.

 

[youngMacJ]

i prefer a lil higher

 

[youngMacJ]

As far as I'm concerned, if you're in a rock or metal band and you're not covering your junk, you're doing it wrong.

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*obviously whatever works for you. But any higher than belt-buckle and I feel like a jazz or reggae guy.

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Dont agree at all

 

[dnarock]

bridge at wrist level on my 5s a lil higher on a 4 and I play mostly rock so FWIW

 

[Professor Jones]

I still can't understand how you can fret the strings comfortably when wearing your bass low. Very bad for the wrist, and it makes playing harder than it is. I wear mine high, so that it stays at the same height whether I'm sitting or standing.

 

[Surly]

I think it's a tradeoff. Looks cooler lower, but obviously harder to play. Perhaps being able to pull off "the look" and play perfectly is a skillset it's own. I know I play better a little higher. I keep mine as low as I can, because I like my right arm straight for picking.

 

[ryanphonic]

Perhaps being able to pull off "the look" and play perfectly is a skillset it's own....I keep mine as low as I can, because I like my right arm straight for picking.

For me it's all about the right arm extension while picking. I feel like I have little t-rex arms if it's up too high. There's probably quite a bit about my form that's "wrong," but when I'm playing live I have to really dig in to the bass to feel right.

Two of my favorite players, Joe Lally and David Wm. Sims, play higher than I do, and they still rock. For better or worse, I'm definitely in the Burton/Troy Sanders school.

 

[SpankyPants]

Well, I used to wear mine really high... as high as my strap would allow. (Well, I still wear one of my straps as high as it can allow, but it's just longer than my other straps.) But after I saw some pictures of myself wearing the bass so high, I realized three things:
1. I look like a total goober.
2. My plucking wrist was bent at an unhealthy angle which could possibly end with tendonitis or other such problems.
3. I couldn't really move or "rock out," which can be important sometimes.

So I decided to let out some slack and wear it lower. Now it sits over my stomach. Still pretty high, but low enough to allow still good access to the all the upper frets while keeping my plucking hand (and wrist) in a more natural and comfortable position. Also, I can now move more easily and dance a little as I jam.

However when anyone else tries my basses on, they almost invariably say it's too high for them.

 

[LSquared]

When I was a teenager, I wore it really low. Low enough that I didn't need to worry about belt-buckle rash, but not so low that I had to bend over:

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As I've gotten older, it has moved up a bit, but still on the low side. I like my plucking hand to be right about belt-level. When I play higher (like sitting down) my wrist hurts pretty quickly.

 

[Stanley Design]

Fingerstyle I nipple ride. If I'm playing with a pick I have it so that "buckle rash" would be on the lower portion of the back of the bass.

 

[godofthunder59]

Love that shirt. And the pants. I won't lie.

And the bass*.



Awesome, man.





* if it wasn't a Fenderbird it would be extra awesomeeee.

LOL Thanks man at 50 I sometimes wonder if the leather pants are a bit much but I look at that picture and say naw, do it while ya can ! I build custom NR Fenderbirds. The bass pictured being one of them. It is powered by a single Dimarzio model G ( the cream color being butt ugly but dam it sounds so good!) The bass is a flame thrower !

 

[Diogenes]

Yea I hold it a little higher than most people but it's the perfect height for my playing style. Even when I played in punk/hardcore bands back in the early 80s I still never held my bass low... it just didn't work for me and I never cared whether or not I looked cool or dorky.

 

[godofthunder59]

Yea I hold it a little higher than most people but it's the perfect height for my playing style. Even when I played in punk/hardcore bands back in the early 80s I still never held my bass low... it just didn't work for me and I never cared whether or not I looked cool or dorky.

There is no right or wrong just express yourself !

 

[Baskesman]

Even when I played in punk/hardcore bands back in the early 80s I still never held my bass low... it just didn't work for me and I never cared whether or not I looked cool or dorky.

Yeah! in those days punk/hardcore didn't need all that 'being cool' stuff.

I like to wear the bass low, but my strap's too short.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Always play it high - I like actually being able to reach notes. I've always thought that slinging you bass low was what posers did.

that's just me....

 

[Bowser]

I go back and forth depending on what im doing.
For slapping having it down low is tiring and kinda awkward cause you gotta twist your wrist to get the thumb pointed up. anything else i wear it down low. i like swinging it around lol.