What Your Strap Length Says About You

[bass_lord_mutha]

I guess I'm kinda in between Obeyer and Folkie too.

 

[davy4575]

Low, bordering knuckle, but I tilt like geezer a lot of the time. Not so much in this pic.

 

[mimsy89]

obeyer/folkie for me now i'd say.

the important question though. whats the best strap length for metal?

 

[iTzPrime]

I normally set my straplength so i got the same standing up and sitting down (like Billy Sheehan)

 

[Mark McClelland]

A great take on all the lengths. I started as a low rider, now a middleman. Straplength can be seen as a pretty sacrosanct thing but when I started knowing more about what was going on and needed to reach and maybe see more, switched to middle. and yes. As a low rider, I was a metal player. And yes, I am a very smiley player and now more blues based.

 

[dbase]

I have to make a strap change soon ... belly is getting bigger with age so it's either gonna be Low Hanger or High Tower. No room in the middle unless I want to play bass like a slide guitar on my stomach.

 

[alembicguy]

Never thought it mattered if a player had it low or high. You can either play or you can't. Height doesn't matter.

 

[Phalex]

Obeyer. I like my bass to gently but firmly support my right man-teat.

 

[Twocan]

Neck plate at the belly button - I'm guessing that's Folkie?

 

[two fingers]

A few years ago I got invited to a small theater to see the Kingston Trio. I can't remember the guy's name, but their bass player was a bad bad man on bass guitar. And I believe he was a "middle man".

 

[Flashback Bass]

Middle Man

Since they put a belly cut there I might as well put it to use!

 

[PillO]

Obeyer. I like my bass to gently but firmly support my right man-teat.

I believe that is the Wilkenfeld position.

 

[GnarwhalNick]

I'm a middle guy. But I know folk, country, rock, Ramones, some jazz, and I was an obeyer to my bass teacher!
Although I don't play like this, I always liked Dee Dee's style....

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This is exactly what I was alluding to in my post about where I used to have my bass. While Dee Dee looks awesome, I realized I was not as cool as I thought and when I started playing more intricate basslines other than the punk 3-chord songs, I couldn't do it with that length

 

[jamersonburton]

Used to be a knuckle dragger, got tendinitis so I brought it up to the obeyer and that really messed up my elbows (I have super long arms and I'm tall) so now it's somewhere between the low-rider and the middle man though I find myself lowering it ever so slightly every couple weeks. That's with a jazz bass though (I have huge hands too). With a pbass neck it's middleman all the way.

 

[JMacBass65]

I had always thought Wojtec was wearing his a bit high until I tried it myself and experienced how much easier dead accurate slapping is that way.

And I used to call one of my good bass buddies, who is a fully committed "low slinger", a poser but he always got the chicks so it really seemed to work for him.

Awesome bass there! Very Rickenbackeresqe horns on it, it's like a boutique Rick.

 

[Groove Doctor]

Obeyer.... and yes, my jazz reading skills are above-average.

Do I get my gold star now??

 

[Gnal]

I'm somewhere between Obeyer and Middleman, it depends on the bass.

 

[gregbackstrom]

I'm a Hybrid! Folkie for height, but I play a lot of funk & disco.

 

[socialleper]

What Your Strap Length Says About You

How tall you are?

 

[the explode man]

Middle man for sure. Everything about me is in the middle. I'm f/ing boring.