seated position

by Barry
(UK)

Whilst I practice classical guitar in the classical position sometimes, I do find it more comfortable resting the guitar horizontally across my knees. As I am only a home performer, do I really need to stick rigidly to the classical position?

Hi Barry,

I would do what's comfortable. If you're only playing in the home then you're playing basically for you and in the words of John Voight's character to Robert Deniro's character in the movie "Heat"...

"It's a free country brother."

Seriously though, as you're probably aware, the reason for the proper seating position is that it allows you to play with the proper technique for classical guitar.

But you can still play to your own satisfaction technically in the position that you're describing.

Indeed, sometimes my back gets tired in lessons so I shift my position and place my guitar on my right leg to ease the tension for a while.

It's not as if I'd play like that in a concert situation though. Maybe you can shift between positions like I do to get the "best of both worlds", so to speak.

I hope this has been of help to you.

Kind regards,
Trevor M.