Holding the guitar neck
Your wrist should be relaxed but not hanging too low. The wrist should be bent, but only slightly. If your wrist is bent too much, it will cause problems later on. If you have smaller hands, you’re thumb will be positioned further towards the center of the back of the neck.
Thereof, does hanging a guitar damage the neck?
It won’t warp the neck. The force of gravity on the neck is much less than the force asserted on the neck by those strings under tension. I would still not advise long term storage of guitars by hanging them on the wall. The safest place for your guitar is in its hard shell case.
In respect to this, how should a woman hold a guitar?
Also to know is, is it bad to hold guitar by neck?
You can hold it by the neck as much as you like. You can’t hurt a real guitar that way. You could swing it by the neck around your head and not hurt it. It doesn’t really matter since the neck has unnecessary pressure being aplied to the neck.
Is it bad to keep guitar in case?
Store your guitars in cases or gig bags to keep dust and other airborne contaminants — like household cooking smoke — off their vitals, and for protection from falls or other accidents. Even if your guitars are in cases check them every few months to be sure there’s no warping or other weather related damage at play.
Is it harder to play guitar standing up?
The reason why you have trouble playing while standing up is simply because you’re not used to it. Your body mechanics to play the guitar while standing up are very different from the body mechanics while sitting down. … You have to enlarge your muscle memory in order to play equally as good standing up as sitting down.
Is it OK to play guitar with your thumb?
It’s OK to play with your thumb but that could limit you quite a lot later on. Like your friend said, it’d be much harder to try to play a fasy some with your thimb. Also if you use a pick it can increase your accuracy and you’ll be able to play faster.