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Looks similar, sounds quite different
I just can't get with the headstock on those. Kind if an A-C feel where the pick guard meets the controls, though.
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Lakland Owners Group #62
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I just can't get with the headstock on those. Kind if an A-C feel where the pick guard meets the controls, though.
Not exactly... look at how classical guitarists sit with their guitars between their legs with the neck at about a 45 degree angle. That's how I happened to self-teach myself to play seated. It allows for a straighter right wrist and also relieves some left wrist angle issues. My bass on a strap was at exactly the same position as seated for most of my first 20 years of playing. I dropped the bass down a small amount in 2007 for looks and comfort.
I guess you could say that I agree totally with strap length mimicking seated position, as long as you angle the neck upward (between 1 and 2 o'clock position) to allow the right wrist to be straighter.
I have played bass for 25 years, and been a competetive olympic weightlifter since I was 13 years old. I have won multiple state championships and competed at multiple national championships. I play my bass very high and have never had wrist issues. This, like everything else, is more related to how you are built, flexibility, mobility and how you care for your joints.
Here's my positioning. My Lakland 4-76 is in the background on the stand
. Nevermind the left hand... my thumb is usually behind the neck.
That is what works for me. My strap is in the seating position length mostly, maybe a tad lower. But when sitting I put the but of the guitar between my legs with the neck more upright and I have less stress in my right hand tendons that way. It keeps my wrist much more straight. When standing I tend to look similar but obviously fluctuate for some show
. I agree whole heartedly that each person is unique and things that stress my body are different for others, but there are some good generalizations here to watch out for.
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Here's my positioning. My Lakland 4-76 is in the background on the stand
Yeah, thats what I was trying to say above. That is pretty much my playing position as well.
Great stuff JJ, one can never be too careful. Like you, I prefer a more "extreme" neck angle of 45° - just works for me.
Unfortunately too late for my fretting thumb which has recently developed basal joint osteoarthritis, now it's a topical nsaid and icing down after playing despite it being in the "proper" position.
Unfortunately too late for my fretting thumb which has recently developed basal joint osteoarthritis, now it's a topical nsaid and icing down after playing despite it being in the "proper" position.
Yep same.
It's about arm length really. Also, most people practice sitting down. Some of us actually have logged the 10,000 hours of practice thing so if there was going to be wrist issues, I think I'd have them by now.
Funny to read how people set their straps to look cool in other threads. I never thought it looked cool to have your arm stretched out so you can't properly access the fretboard, but maybe thats just me.
Funny to read how people set their straps to look cool in other threads. I never thought it looked cool to have your arm stretched out so you can't properly access the fretboard, but maybe thats just me.
Agree. I tried the super low bass/long strap thing for about an hour when I first started playing. I couldn't play the first part of Sweet Child O Mine lol. So I shortened my strap immediately.
I don't think I ever did try the super low thing, just looked silly to me to see bass players all hunched over like Quasimoto - and I was heavily into punk when I started playing
Like Nikki Sixx in Motley Crue...He wears his bass slung down around his knees.
Then again his bass parts are not very complex...
And he plays with a pick, with his hand sitting back on the bridge.
I like my bass up higher as well.
When I think "great bass player," I think Nikki Sixx...
Like Nikki Sixx in Motley Crue...He wears his bass slung down around his knees.
Then again his bass parts are not very complex...
And he plays with a pick, with his hand sitting back on the bridge.
I like my bass up higher as well.
Sorry guys
You are both a scholar and a gentlemen...
We'll never forget your act of kindness.
Feel free to share more pictures with your 'um "new bass"
Reeally?
We all have our heros I guess. I was an 80's teenager and steeped in that pop rock, and now I believe I could go the rest of my life never hearing it again. Our guitarist, however, wants to play that genre all the time - needless to say we conflict
DOn't get me wrong, I love Motley Crue and the dude sold more records than all of us combined, but he is definitely not one of my "influences"
Reeally?
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