Need help to keep guitar up

[hneaz]

my guitar keeps tipping down when im playing and i get really tired holding it up. is there a special strap that keeps the guitar up? or do i have to change my guitar? i use an Ibanez GAX 70.

 

[Murray_H]

my guitar keeps tipping down when im playing and i get really tired holding it up. is there a special strap that keeps the guitar up? or do i have to change my guitar? i use an Ibanez GAX 70.

You are using a strap when you're standing up, aren't you? When you're sitting just balance it on either one of your legs...

 

[hneaz]

im not sitting down to play, im standing up. i want my guitar to be at a 60 degrees angle without me holding it.

 

[hneaz]

im already using a strap, its just that it tips down...bleh, ill ask some other ppl...

 

[SimonomiS]

If you have a top heavy guitar, I think you just have to deal with it by holding it. Don't know of any special straps.

 

[sabre0001]

Try fiddling around with the length of the strap so that it becomes more comfortable...And no, the length of it hanging around your knees is not practical and will cause more harm than good in the long term

 

[SimonomiS]

Adjust it on both ends?

Wha..?

 

[Ennui]

the prime rule of playing guitar is that you look like a **** if it's at the crotch level or below, wear it on your chest because that's how you can best play, think tom morello not papa roach

as for your problem i say just suck it up and hold it

 

[GHL]

tighten the strap on the side that is dipping, its common sense.

 

[The Brick]

I think he means it moves like this

 

[SimonomiS]

Like so?

Haven't even seen those in the guitar shops round here strangely enough. Weird.
Then again, I don't tend to search through the straps section in guitar shops.

 

[SimonomiS]

He might have something similar to a BC Rich Warlock, which usually when you're not holding it up looks like:

Just man it up and hold it. Build those muscles.