Practicing standing up

[TomW]

Give it a few more weeks and see how you feel then; it may just be a different neck means you place pressure on different areas of muscles and tendons. In a few weeks these areas may get stronger and the problem might go away. Just be careful to warm up in the meantime.

+1 I sometimes get a wierd feeling in my wrist when playing on my strat after I've been playing on my SG for a while, probs because of the different neck, so maybe it is that you're not used to the different neck shape yet. But as others have said stop playing straight away if you start feeling pain.

[JamesHealey]

I don't give a flying $%&# what I look like when im playing if the sound coming out is good, strap that bitch up!

[Catalyst77]

Well Here's a few pics of how low i have the guitar and the angle my wrist is at when i'm doing legato stuff. 

I'll prob bring the guitar up a little a bit, take it slow and see if it improves - let me know what you think - input is greatly appreciated!!

I dont know

But your girlfriend is clearly the finest woman to grace this earth. If shes hot as well, then I have to kill you. Nothing personal.

More importantly here's a picture of the misses, i'll let you make your own mind up :lol:

[il˙ti]

I'd say get it at least 10cm higher up. It should cover your belly button.

[Will]

I'd say get it at least 10cm higher up. It should cover your belly button.

There is definately no SHOULD of what height to play.
I play lower than that, but started out playing just a tad higher than that, I can pretty much play wherever now, but if its any higher than that, I find it annoying.

[_tom_]

After seeing pictures of the guitar and the girlfriend, I can safely say that Catalyst77 is officially the luckiest person on this forum :P

Just to be on topic, your guitar does look a little low. I'd shorten the strap a couple of inches and see how that feels to play. My wrists angle doesnt look too far off that though with the strap a bit higher.

[Twinfan]

I think it's very much a personal thing.  I play my guitars lower than you Catalyst77 as they feel more comfortable to me.  As a bonus I think they look cooler too 

However, if it's causing you pain or discomfort then it's not right for you at it's current height.  Raise it up and see if that feels better.

[dave_mc]

your arm seems very long... if anything (from looking at that picture, anyway) your arm seems to be bent at the wrist because the guitar is too close to you, rather than too far away.

This might be completely off-base and wrong, but have you tried lowering the guitar? EDIT: or just adjust the angle of your should and/or the neck of the guitar...  :?

[FELINEGUITARS]

your arm seems very long... if anything (from looking at that picture, anyway) your arm seems to be bent at the wrist because the guitar is too close to you, rather than too far away.

He needs a beer belly  to help hold the guitar away from him?
I've got one that I could do with getting shot of - cant sell it on ebay really

[Lazy_McDoesnothing]

It could be a roundabout way of selling beer on ebay though.  You won't get rid of yours but you could certainly give one to someone else. :P

[Twinfan]

I've just checked how I have mine, and while it's low when I hold the neck of the guitar around the 3rd to 5th fret area my forearm is parallel to the ground.  Yours seems to be sloping downwards?

Try raising your guitar up so your arm is parallel to the floor when playing in the first position.

[Catalyst77]

Well after a few days of experimenting and mixed results a think its prob a combination of a few things.

Firstly playing the same demanding legato run spanning 5 frets down to the 14th fret for 10 mins (i.e. not moving the hand into a different position as you would do with normal playing) probably didnt help much.


I moved the guitar down about 4-5 inches stiltskin style; which actually in a crazy way was much easier, it was easier to chord and solo but as a result my picking technique really suffered, i couldnt really mute the strings as I wanted to cause i was streching a bit with my right hand.

I moved it up a few inches this def helped - it wasnt as comfortable or natural as shifting it down but gave me greater control.

I also tried bringing the forearm more parallel to the floor which def helped too (thanks twinfan!)

So i guess its a bit comprimise a bit trial an error, but a 100% Perseverance!

[Twinfan]

Nice one - hope you find something you're comfortable with soon  :)

[dave_mc]

[He needs a beer belly  to help hold the guitar away from him?
I've got one that I could do with getting shot of - cant sell it on ebay really

:lol:

nice to hear it's going a bit better, catalyst :)