When sitting down where do you rest your guitar?

brendansmith

I have the guitar positioned like this lad
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However, on youtube clips you see alot of lads like your man below, I had a flying V and had to have it like this which was the main reason I got rid of it. My back would kill me after a few hours playing

Rigsby

Where you position your guitar is entirely a personal preference. Some people wear them below the knee, others as a bow tie. Ideally from a comfort point of view, the best place to wear it would be similar to the top picture in your post. I get aches and pains just looking at the bottom picture.

strobe

I'm a bottom picture man myself, rest it across my left leg (right handed) most of the time when sitting, but like Rigsby says, whatever way you find most comfortable is the right way.

Thornography

I'm the bottom dude myself also. My strats and Ibanez's feel more comfortable that way and tbh I think its also because they have less of a chance of dropping that way.

-=al=-

im the top fella

Blackhorse Slim

I play much like the first one, but interestingly I notice he's wearing a strap, even though he's sitting. That's something I tend to do too.

brendansmith

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

I play much like the first one, but interestingly I notice he's wearing a strap, even though he's sitting. That's something I tend to do too.

haha you felt compelled to comment on the one guy wearing a strap and not that the second guy is strumming with a copybook and has a blue tongue. :D:D:D:D

Quillo

Same as the lower guy.....
Probably comes from starting out life playnig classical guitar - though I play bass mostly now I still prefer the fret-hand side leg as a rest.

Blackhorse Slim

brendansmith wrote: »

haha you felt compelled to comment on the one guy wearing a strap and not that the second guy is strumming with a copybook and has a blue tongue. :D:D:D:D

What can I say? I'm a guitar player

(And I assume that's a blue pick in his mouth)

brendansmith

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

(And I assume that's a blue pick in his mouth)

A joke well recieved then

Dord

I play right handed and rest the guitar on my right leg. I find it more comfortable.

Demeyes

I mostly play with it resting on my left leg (I'm a righty), I find it closer to what I play like standing and it seems to give me a more comfortable playing position with easier upper fret access.

Malice

I'd be like the first picture. It depends on what I'm playing though. My six string bass it a lot more unwieldy than my strat so I often find I have the neck of the bass pointing up towards the ceiling a lot more than in the picture.