Where Do You Wear Your Guitar?

[jcthejester13]

Let's just use your belt-line as a reference? Do you wear your guitar above, below, or on your belt-line?

I wear my guitar so the bottom of the guitar is about touching my belt, I guess.

[Jessie's ghost]

I usually keep the bottom of the guitar just above the belt-line. When I sit down with a guitar, I like to slouch over it so that my right tit sits in the bass-side body contour.

[some_dude]

Modern Hetfield position.

[Agileguy_101]

Modern Hetfield position.

It ain't rock unless it's convering yer cock

[75lespaul]

Like my underwear...right under my nipples.

[Empty Pockets]

slow and low that is the tempo

[ehdwuld]

just above the belt
same pace as if I were sitting

[aneyekay1]

the bottom of the neck of my ibanez

[Lazarus1140]

I had to strap it on to find out. The guitar is centered at my beltline.

[Jessie's ghost]

I had to strap it on to find out.

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I wear mine where my buckle is scratching the middle upper part of the back. Basically, the spring cavity on my strat catches on my buckle.

[phil_104]

zing!


I wear mine where my buckle is scratching the middle upper part of the back. Basically, the spring cavity on my strat catches on my buckle.

+1

[TheLivingDead]

The bottom covering my belt.

[Powdered Toast Man]

It's funny how some of us just copied the way our first big influence wears theirs.

When I was 17, I studied live photos and video of Keith Richards to hang mine the same. Still wear it like that. Upper half of the back at the belt line.

[Sable]

Lower for rocking, higher for shredding.

[Hellion]

Depends on the guitar in question. If it's an electric, the top of the guitar is just a little above my belt buckle. But I wear acoustics a lot higher, about 6-8 inches above that.

[drew_half_empty]

I rock a strap sitting down a lot of the time and that's pretty high obviously, the guitar sits a little suspended kinda cocked over my leg, but standing up... I've raised it a little from the days of my avatar photo. It seems like every so often as I progress I raise it a little bit--I should probably just raise it up to my throat and start shredding

[ParameterMan]

It depends on the guitar - most guitars hang about where they would be sitting down, but I find that LPs play best lower. It's uncanny, too... since then I've observed that most hardcore LP players sling them in about the same spot. It's the LP zone. My other guitars go up and down a bit until they snuggle into a comfortable spot that doesn't dig into my ribs.

[some_dude]

It depends on the guitar - most guitars hang about where they would be sitting down, but I find that LPs play best lower. It's uncanny, too... since then I've observed that most hardcore LP players sling them in about the same spot. It's the LP zone. My other guitars go up and down a bit until they snuggle into a comfortable spot that doesn't dig into my ribs.

When I first started out I learned on Strats and sitting down, so when I stood up I kept them in the same position (really high). My friends used to make fun of me, but I didn't really care.

When I started using a Les Paul however high up was pretty uncomfortable. It gradually lowered down until it was around the height that Hetfield has it in that pic I posted. I had to relearn how to fret since I was used to playing with straight fingers and a bent wrist. After looking at pictures of various Les Paul players I noticed they all kept their wrist straight and wrapped their fingers around the neck.

Here's my questin: I always keep it kind of high (not as bad as morello, but still) because, frankly, I develop some serious wrist pains if I go low slung. Sometimes it gets so bad, I have to put away the guitar for a day or so. Anybody else have that problem?

Most people who play higher up tend to fret something like this;


Then, when they lower their guitar they try to maintain the same fretting shape and their wrist starts to look something like this;


And it creates all sorts of wrist problems.

What you need to do is learn to wrap your fingers like this;


As it releaves the stress on your wrist, and the cost of not being able to form more complex chord shapes.

[B2D]

Somewhere between Tom Morello and Jimmy Page.