Ramon Amira -> RE: Finding good Postures (Nov. 16 2009 6:43:06)
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I have three suggestions for you. 1) Try the traditional classical guitar position. It might not look flamenco, but neither does the cross legged position. 2) There is a position that is exactly halfway between the traditional classical and the traditional flamenco. In this position, the lower bout rests on your right thigh, just like traditional flamenco, but you use a footstool raising your left leg, and rest the upper bout on your left leg. This is really an excellent position. I have seen Sabicas use exactly that position, though sometimes the upper bout looked like it wasn't resting, which would make the footstool superfluous. The other guitarist who uses precisely this position is Pepe Romero. 3) After a lifetime of using the traditional flamenco position, one day I just sat down on my couch and started playing. I haven't stopped. (Well, I stopped playing, but I haven't stopped using this position.) I'm sure plenty of other people have used it as well. You just sit on the couch, and let the lower bout rest on the couch itself, immediately to your right and also resting on your right thigh. It gives you total support of the guitar, and more importantly you are completely relaxed. Another advantage I find is that it brings the fingerboard more to the right, and so you get less of a feeling of "reaching" out with your left hand. But again, most of all, you are entirely relaxed, and do not have to become on a first name basis with a chiropractor. Incidentally, on YouTube there is a video of Melchor playing sitting on a couch in exactly this positon. (Tanguillos de Cadiz)
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