The what ever thread...

[Olin]

I think I change strap height every time I play.
The higher it is, certainly the more comfortable it is and the easier it is to reach chords, but I think it's only that way because I play sitting down a lot and standing up is such a drastic change that my wrists don't know what to do anymore.
I am always baffled by the people who play with their guitar below their dick and can reach fairly big chords, I just don't get how it doesn't wreck your wrists.
Is it like a percentage? The higher your guitar is, the more of a nerd you are? When you see a musician perform, before they even start do you think "Nice, only 14% nerdy, this should be a killer show."? What about lapsteels, where do they fit? Keytars? Do drummers have the same problem with stool height? There are so many things I don't know.

[BetterOffShred]

All of this is a legitimate concern of my own that causes me to lose sleep.

I will say that when I see someone wearing their shit up high, I'm like 97% certain they are going to know how to rip. ---- conversely when I see someone scratching their balls on the upper horn of their guitar, I'm 117% certain I'm about to be sodomized by their complete lack of skills/riffs.

Then there is dudes like Slash who can pull it off somehow ... he pulls the beck up though and uses classic fingering sometimes..

[Mudfuzz]

I will say that when I see someone wearing their shit up high, I'm like 97% certain they are going to know how to rip.

For me it says there is 50% chance they can't play in tune and are drunk or overly stoned.

[Mudfuzz]

I think I change strap height every time I play.
The higher it is, certainly the more comfortable it is and the easier it is to reach chords, but I think it's only that way because I play sitting down a lot and standing up is such a drastic change that my wrists don't know what to do anymore.
I am always baffled by the people who play with their guitar below their dick and can reach fairly big chords, I just don't get how it doesn't wreck your wrists.
Is it like a percentage? The higher your guitar is, the more of a nerd you are? When you see a musician perform, before they even start do you think "Nice, only 14% nerdy, this should be a killer show."? What about lapsteels, where do they fit? Keytars? Do drummers have the same problem with stool height? There are so many things I don't know.

My drummer is 6'6" he always has his throne maxed out height wise.. I have my bass low but only for comfort, it being a Flying V takes care of non-nerdtasticness my guitarist has her guitar in a somewhere in the middle in a overly sensible type way.. where you do is what you feel feels right

[Chankgeez]

thrown

I think you've been hangin' out too much with comesect (or he's been hangin' out too much with you).

[Mudfuzz]

[Chankgeez]

[ummohyeah]

I think I change strap height every time I play.
The higher it is, certainly the more comfortable it is and the easier it is to reach chords, but I think it's only that way because I play sitting down a lot and standing up is such a drastic change that my wrists don't know what to do anymore.
I am always baffled by the people who play with their guitar below their dick and can reach fairly big chords, I just don't get how it doesn't wreck your wrists.
Is it like a percentage? The higher your guitar is, the more of a nerd you are? When you see a musician perform, before they even start do you think "Nice, only 14% nerdy, this should be a killer show."? What about lapsteels, where do they fit? Keytars? Do drummers have the same problem with stool height? There are so many things I don't know.

I play sitting down mostly, my guitar sits usually right around belt buckle. Any lower and yeah, it wrecks my wrists, and I play a 24" scale so I can stretch. Can't do that shit when it's low so in short my stage presence sucks. I can't get all hunched over and throw my shit around.



I wish.

[$harkToootth]

You're all cooler than me. I play with my guitar at like John Dwyer height.
Robert Trujillo...now that is a specimen for low strap.

[BetterOffShred]

I will say that when I see someone wearing their shit up high, I'm like 97% certain they are going to know how to rip.

For me it says there is 50% chance they can't play in tune and are drunk or overly stoned.

That just hasn't been my experience
It's always the ball knockers.

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[spacelordmother]

“The guitar should go above the dick or below the dick. Never over the dick.”

_dean ween

[Mudfuzz]

I will say that when I see someone wearing their shit up high, I'm like 97% certain they are going to know how to rip.

For me it says there is 50% chance they can't play in tune and are drunk or overly stoned.

That just hasn't been my experience
It's always the ball knockers.

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[BetterOffShred]

My man!

[comesect2.0]

^relevant?

NSFW: show

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[BetterOffShred]

Yes. Completely.