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Works well for assisting guitar players with proper leg position.
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However I recently started playing gypsy jazz and needed to step up my right leg
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Every time I practice bass tend to lay my right leg over my thigh or cross them and my right leg would fall asleep from the weight of my e-bass
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I practice about an hour a day and I no longer have any 'leg fatigue' or discomfort
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If you need a higher leg rest that's still adjustable, this is what you want to ensure that you're getting the full range of versatility you need.
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I play a classical guitar and a full-size dreadnaught which is a bit large for me, so elevating my leg to get the guitar into position is important.
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as it favors your right leg as you form those bar chords and shapes but notice how if your ELEVATE your right leg with a box or a guitar foot rest, the guitar not only rises upward but there is a decided increase in the 'angle' of the guitar [moving 'towards' the body] and this can nicely facilitate those bar chords
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I also use the footrest when playing on my right leg (right-handed player) and it is comfortable as well
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But I sometimes adjust it down when I switch it to my right leg and when I'm playing Flamenco and rather than rest the guitar between my legs like in the classical posture, I shift it over to my right leg.
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and I found that bar chords become easier to play because as your right leg rises, obviously so does the
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Every time I practice bass tend to lay my right leg over my thigh or cross them and my right leg would fall asleep from the weight of my e-bass
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Keeps legs comfortable
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I'm just under 5 ft, so my legs dangle and fall asleep when I sit a long time in standard chairs
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All this simply because you elevated your right leg in the sitting position
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shall we say, revisting guitar bar chords, and try this WITHOUT a box or any foot rest, place your guitar as you normally would hold it in that chair and give me the classic E-shape 6th root-string bar chords for our old familiar friends, the popular F, G, A bar chords on the index finger barred 1st, 3rd and 5th fret
