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It's the only way I can get comfortable. Standing up I hold my guitar pretty high up so it's in a similar position to when I'm sat, I still don't understand how you can play anything whilst it's dangling around your knees.
 
I find it depends on the guitar body shape, neck length and the size of the player though. Jumbo or dreadnought on a person with short reach needs to go right knee both for getting the wide body to the side so it fits, and the low frets accessible.
 
A new squeeze.
it's a US Professional from 2016 with a Bareknuckle Rebell Yell in the bridge. Not sure if I'll keep the HB but have all the bits to revert to stock. USA necks are quite a lot better than Mexican.

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Very nice! I'm really keen on the bareknuckle stuff, but slightly biased as I live down the road... I imagine a rebel yell in that would be really good in all honesty.

I'd show mine on this thread, but I can't work out how to post images on here!
 
Bill Turnip said:
Very nice! I'm really keen on the bareknuckle stuff, but slightly biased as I live down the road... I imagine a rebel yell in that would be really good in all honesty.

I'd show mine on this thread, but I can't work out how to post images on here!
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Thank you - The Strandberg does have fanned frets, though you're right that perspective is really odd now that I look at it properly! Much prefer the slant on the Strandberg as it starts parallel to the nut, whereas the Kiesel's parallel fret is at 9, makes for some interesting stretches down there!

Only issue I have with the Strandberg is that the high E string comes out of the nut really easily if you bend one of the lower frets (or pull off too strongly) which is irritating, but can't be too bad as I haven't dealt with it yet!
 
Ah, can see that now I'm not trying to find "opposite" slants at each end of the board (and opened the high res pic) :)

The nut issue is tricky as it's only a string guide, but it's the height of the top that's the issue, rather than the depth of the string slot. Still deepening the slot may help.
 
LuckyBenski said:
The nut issue is tricky as it's only a string guide, but it's the height of the top that's the issue, rather than the depth of the string slot. Still deepening the slot may help.
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Possibly - It feels and looks like it should be a deeper cut though, as if you look at the string horizontally after the nut all strings are recessed except for that one.
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Is the PRS a recent blow out at like 40% off?
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Yeah, they did a big price cut on the SE Hollowbody Piezo and I bit. I'd previously had an ESP Ltd EC1000 with Piezo, but didn't really get on with it so sold that to cover it.
 
potatolord said:
The left leg rest is literally the first thing I ever tell a beginner.

Hundreds of years of guitarists suggest it is the best way...
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yeah, nothing against it, it's prob from years of practicing sitting at the pc in an office chair! but even though I can get a wider spann etc with the guitar on left leg I feel more comfortable with the guitar on right leg, right leg crossed over the left...when the guitar's onb the left I've got my left leg up on a footstool about 15inch high

legs!

I dunno what it is and it's annoying but trying to play the fast bit on sweet child o mine solo before the wah section comes in i can only get near it standing
e : actually the left leg works too
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It's just because of the part where you slide up near the beginning of the riff has quite a stretch (depending on how you play it) so you need to have a pretty good wrist position - same reason why Slash almost always puts his foot up on one of the monitor speakers and holds the guitar near-vertical at that part instead of having it swinging round his ankles like normal :D
 
Oh, what have I done? I still play the guitar sometimes for the local dementia group, and like to lift the sometimes rather ploddy & lifeless piano player's tunes with something a bit more lively... anything with a great chorus "everyone" knows. These Boots Are Made For Walking, Jolene, When I'm 64, Delilah (don't worry, I've added Folsom Prison to the repertoire so a man gets killed too!) Some Everly Brothers (Dream, Dream, Dream), a bit of Tommy Steele (Never Felt More Like Singin' The Blues), even Sweet Caroline... all the good stuff! And it's rather gratifying when everyone gets stuck into a chorus.

But its a Church run group of the Evangelical persuasion #SignOfTheCrucifix and the old dears who run the dementia group want an afternoon once a month where they can sing some of the old hymns which their Pastor and his Christian pop band don't do. And I -- as the least godly human being in the building -- have kind of agreed to play the guitar for them. I was thinking it'd be hymns from my school assembly days... the old classics. But it turns out there are a few of these and an awful lot of old classics I've never heard before in my life! Many of which sound great with an organ backing them and somewhat less convincing with me bumbling along with a mediocre tab.

So here I am, ploughing through YouTube and Ultimate Guitar Chords trying to learn some of this stuff from scratch. And it's driving me potty. I owe these good folk a favour; they were wonderful with my Mum. But... but... <sigh>. I'm going to have to persuade them they want to sing stuff like Amazing Grace, Morning Has Broken, and Onward Christian Soldiers which I'm at least familiar with!

At least "Blessed Assurance" turns out to be something that has a bit of life to it and I can play! And it'll be good for me to treat this as a "job" and show some discipline. But... well... maybe I'll have a religious epiphany (or a vodka and tonic) and it'll all feel less of a chore.

In other news, no sooner did I buy 12 more Heavy gauge Ernie Ball nylon plectrums (more texture, less fumbling) than I've decided I prefer the Mediums after all, now that I'm doing more strumming than picking.

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Andrew_McP said:
Oh, what have I done? I still play the guitar sometimes for the local dementia group, and like to lift the sometimes rather ploddy & lifeless piano player's tunes with something a bit more lively... anything with a great chorus "everyone" knows. These Boots Are Made For Walking, Jolene, When I'm 64, Delilah (don't worry, I've added Folsom Prison to the repertoire so a man gets killed too!) Some Everly Brothers (Dream, Dream, Dream), a bit of Tommy Steele (Never Felt More Like Singin' The Blues), even Sweet Caroline... all the good stuff! And it's rather gratifying when everyone gets stuck into a chorus.

But its a Church run group of the Evangelical persuasion #SignOfTheCrucifix and the old dears who run the dementia group want an afternoon once a month where they can sing some of the old hymns which their Pastor and his Christian pop band don't do. And I -- as the least godly human being in the building -- have kind of agreed to play the guitar for them. I was thinking it'd be hymns from my school assembly days... the old classics. But it turns out there are a few of these and an awful lot of old classics I've never heard before in my life! Many of which sound great with an organ backing them and somewhat less convincing with me bumbling along with a mediocre tab.

So here I am, ploughing through YouTube and Ultimate Guitar Chords trying to learn some of this stuff from scratch. And it's driving me potty. I owe these good folk a favour; they were wonderful with my Mum. But... but... <sigh>. I'm going to have to persuade them they want to sing stuff like Amazing Grace, Morning Has Broken, and Onward Christian Soldiers which I'm at least familiar with!

At least "Blessed Assurance" turns out to be something that has a bit of life to it and I can play! And it'll be good for me to treat this as a "job" and show some discipline. But... well... maybe I'll have a religious epiphany (or a vodka and tonic) and it'll all feel less of a chore.

In other news, no sooner did I buy 12 more Heavy gauge Ernie Ball nylon plectrums (more texture, less fumbling) than I've decided I prefer the Mediums after all, now that I'm doing more strumming than picking.

ernieball.co.uk

Nylon Guitar Picks

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message me a list of the songs, I'll see if i can find any chord/lyric sheets of them from when I used to do this a few years back. Also where are you in the country?
 
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ik9000 said:
message me a list of the songs, I'll see if i can find any chord/lyric sheets of them from when I used to do this a few years back. Also where are you in the country?
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I understood he's got all the stuff on Ultimate Guitar but he doesn't sound as though he's familiar with it.

Funnily enough my band are having a go at These Boots Were Made For Walking tomorrow evening.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Funnily enough my band are having a go at These Boots Were Made For Walking tomorrow evening.
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The verses aren't very singalong friendly (or singer friendly, the way I scan them!) and the chorus is so short, but it's such a great tune. I originally learned it because I used to have to trek miles after Mum as she wandered off trying to find her Mum, or her "real home", or just to get away from me, the one who kept interfering with her life... or trying to keep her safe from herself, as I preferred to call it.

ik9000 said:
skim reading fail.
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Don't worry, it was late and I like a big paragraph. :) I've got versions of most suggestions I think I can work with if required, but "Great is Thy Faithfulness", "When I survey the Wondrous Cross" and "How Great Thou Art" are hymns which I'm struggling to learn to sing... they just don't have any stickability for me, and I need to learn the tunes before I learn the chords. This is the problem with being TAB based and not music based. I need the timing from the words not the sheet!

The good news is that I have an email today saying they might have found a pianist familiar with such music, and I think a lot of these older tunes work far better with the keyboards (organ) and sustained notes they were originally intended to be backed by. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Time will tell. There's a little more pressure to get things right in a serious (to them and therefore to me) situation than at the dementia group, where -- I'm very pleased to say! -- they love a good mistake... the more embarrassing the better. :)

For the record, I'm in that strange little suburb of both Manchester and London (darned trains!) previously known as Macclesfield.
 
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