3.23am
10 August 2011
Good post there, Rick M; welcome!
As Parlance says, Gerry of Gerry and the Pacemakers would hold his guitar chest high as did a number of other performers.
Then at the other extreme, you had Stones’ bass player Bill Wyman holding his guitar waaaay down
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11.05pm
4 September 2019
Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Then at the other extreme, you had Stones’ bass player Bill Wyman holding his guitar waaaay down
Bill Wyman used to hold his bass almost vertical! The style where it looked cool to wear the guitar slung down low came to be later, Jimmy Page was an early example. I’ve always thought it was easier to play guitar when it was held higher, holding it low was solely about the cool factor IMO lol. But then, like John, my eyesight is bad too, so maybe there’s some correlation.
11.39pm
23 January 2022
The trick is to position the guitar so that you don’t have to bend your wrists as you’re playing. That way lies Repetitive Strain Injury. I’ve been playing bass about six months, having noodled on acoustic for years. I kept shifting it down and down until I found the right level (surprisingly much lower than for the acoustic — but it is a very different shape)
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