Playing While Standing Up, any tips?
Gus
Jun 13 2009, 03:10 PM
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Hey, guys.

Every time I play live I start wondering about this again, so I just decide to ask... unsure.gif

I feel comfortable playing while seated, but I feel very crippled when I am playing standing up. In special, I become very slow and hardly can do 3 notes per string runs. Everything seems way harder while standing up and this a little frustrating sad.gif since the final goal of practicing a lot of guitar is to be able to have good live performances.

I've been trying a lot with different positions for my strap, but it does not solve the problem. If I put it too low (like Slash) I can not play at all. If I put it too high, I can do better runs but it seems all the strength that should go into bends go on holding the guitar instead. And then the bends become really bad. I am trying to play on more or less middle strap position, where the bends are ok, but the runs are a little hard...
I am also trying to practice standing up but the improvement is marginal so far. huh.gif

So, what you guys do? Any tip to improve my playing while standing up?

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- Gus   Playing While Standing Up   Jun 13 2009, 03:10 PM
- - kaznie_NL   I gues just throw away your seat and only play whi...   Jun 13 2009, 03:14 PM
- - Fingerspasm   QUOTE (Gus @ Jun 13 2009, 08:10 AM) Hey, ...   Jun 13 2009, 03:16 PM
- - Startear   Practice makes perfect, you should experiment and ...   Jun 13 2009, 03:17 PM
- - Dexxter   Always practice standing up is probably best, but ...   Jun 13 2009, 03:17 PM
- - sted   I've gone through the exact same thing mate, I...   Jun 13 2009, 03:17 PM
- - edguy   Hey I have that problem too. It's very hard fo...   Jun 13 2009, 03:20 PM
|- - sted   QUOTE (edguy @ Jun 13 2009, 03:20 PM) Hey...   Jun 13 2009, 03:27 PM
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- - Ivan Milenkovic   It's all about the practice and comfortable po...   Jun 13 2009, 04:52 PM
- - Pedja Simovic   My advice is - play standing up the same way you p...   Jun 13 2009, 04:55 PM
- - vampire18   i dont know exactly what your problem is because y...   Jun 13 2009, 11:55 PM
- - TheKeplerConjecture   I dealt with this same problem. My solution was t...   Jun 14 2009, 05:52 AM
- - Gus   Hey guys. Thanks a lot for all the info. From ...   Jun 14 2009, 10:41 PM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   You got it mate, those 2 things are the key.   Jun 14 2009, 10:50 PM
- - MickeM   Practice standing up Get a good leather strap tha...   Jun 14 2009, 10:58 PM
|- - Canis   QUOTE (MickeM @ Jun 14 2009, 11:58 PM) Pr...   Jun 15 2009, 01:22 AM
|- - Ivan Milenkovic   QUOTE (Canis @ Jun 15 2009, 02:22 AM) +1 ...   Jun 15 2009, 06:09 PM
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- - Scott Gentzen   When I discovered that playing standing was so muc...   Jun 15 2009, 09:51 PM
|- - Pedja Simovic   QUOTE (Scott Gentzen @ Jun 15 2009, 10:51...   Jun 15 2009, 09:54 PM
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- - Bogdan Radovic   As everyone said, try to practice standing. It get...   Jun 16 2009, 11:13 AM
- - Ian Bushell   The main problem is probably from to much practice...   Jun 16 2009, 12:48 PM
- - Koopid   QUOTE (Ian Bushell @ Jun 16 2009, 01:48 P...   Jun 16 2009, 01:13 PM
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