What kind of chair do you practice/play on?

[Paul in Colorado]

My wheelchair with the right are rest reversed. I use a stool on stage.

 

[adkima00]

For Christmas a few years ago my cousin gave me a chair from the old Philadelphia Spectrum. I went to so many concerts and Flyers games in that building... Clapton twice, Tom petty, van halen, kiss, the list goes on and on... It literally brought a tear to my eye. It is one of my prized possessions. Mine looks like the one on the right, but I cleaned it up.

 

[O.S.V.]

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[Tinribs]

I´m planning on getting one of those Roc-n-soc Nitro drum thrones... I would aprecciate a few comments on this:

how does it work for playing guitar? is comfortable? how "tall" can it be adjusted?

It's not bad, I found it better with the little foot rest attachment I fitted, for longer sessions, a back would be nice too.

It can go pretty high, I found the normal guitar stools too tall for me, this will go as high as them

 

[bparnell57]

Normally I sit in the edge of my bed (bedroom player of course) which is on 6" risers, or on an immaculate vintage Hampden folding chair with brown vinyl on it. It's a crazy comfy and super heavy duty chair.

Band practice or a jam: on top of an amp, standing, or a steel folding chair.

Show: standing.

 

[Tim Bowen]

At my teaching studios, I like the nice leather rolling office chairs that are armless. I use the option of rolling around quite a bit when I'm teaching. At home I sit on the sofa. I learned how to play as a kid by sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of my record player.

I have stood up in bands since the 70s; I remember that I had to practice standing up for a while to get the hang of it.

I never really thought about sitting down to perform until I started doing some acoustic listening room type venues. For whatever reasons lots of folks seem to think sitting down and playing "unplugged" (not really, we all know it"s A/E) goes hand in hand. These types of venues always seem to have tall stools. I hate bar stools anyway because my feet don't touch the ground. For performing though, that especially doesn't work because I can't get at my pedals. So when I started working acoustic rooms is when I began including a chair as part of my standard gigging gear.

I have been thrown quite a few curveballs in performance situations with various instruments, so now I make sure I'm covered by checking it out in advance with both standing and sitting. I got a call to do some work several years back with a band that was part Americana/part jam band, and I chose my B-bender tele for those guys. Turned out that the front man had gout really bad, so it was decided that it would be less goofy for the whole band to sit down. Bending didn't work out so well, and that's when I figured out that I needed a shortened strap for seated B-bender playing. The traditional way to play acoustic banjo is to spread the legs wide and just let the instrument hang a bit. When I first started playing mandolin seated, I went with a shortened strap but didn't get on with it. So I wound up using the traditional banjo seated approach for mandolin.

All of the acts that I work with currently stand, except for one duo; my partner still needs to sit after his hip replacement surgery. I will see him tomorrow and I wonder if he has oiled that damn drummer's stool yet like I've been imploring him to do... at gigs the squeak is just annoying, but obviously microphones hear squeaks so you gotta address that with swiveling chairs in the studio.

For traveling, I need a chair that folds compactly and doesn't take up much space. The one I picked has the proper 90¤ angle for my legs so that my lap steel doesn't slide off my legs. Learned that the hard way too. I got mine at Office Depot for about 25 bucks. I need to get something with better padding on the seat though - I'm slender and have a case of the gone ass, A.K.A. snake ass.

 

[Rublalup]

It's not bad, I found it better with the little foot rest attachment I fitted, for longer sessions, a back would be nice too.

It can go pretty high, I found the normal guitar stools too tall for me, this will go as high as them

Hey I didn´t notice that! that's a great idea... care sharing a "close up" pic? how do you did ti?

 

[idjster]

I either stand or use an old wooden stool from a bank. It's a teller's stool, no different from a regular tall stool but old, so it really is oak and solid! I've considered getting a drum throne but it won't help my playing, so why bother? I've gotten to the point where I think that if something isn't going to help (and not much will, truth be told) why bother changing.

 

[teleamp]

Sound Seat...

 

[Tinribs]

Hey I didn´t notice that! that's a great idea... care sharing a "close up" pic? how do you did ti?

I can't take the credit! Its a Roc n Soc accessory for guitarists

 

[Rublalup]

I can't take the credit! Its a Roc n Soc accessory for guitarists

Thanks, I saw Gibraltar make one too. I´m buying one and hope it fits on my fathers day gift: Mapex Drum Throne

 

[Jamie Black]

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[CNILE]

Generally, whatever I can plant my lard a** on, but I have a couple of drum thrones that I bought for this, but I never seem to use them.
Right now it is an extremely uncomfortable wooden chair I salvaged from a dumpster, because it doesn't have arms on it.

 

[Hiker]

Lately, most seated practice has been with an (armless) office chair, or loveseat w/ low arms.

 

[maggieo]

Emeco Navy Chair:


The Hot Seat, May 30, 2015 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[guitarmikey]

Epiphone stool (found in a british online shop)

 

[jkingma]

This would work...

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[xland]

I mainly play sitting down so I have a comfortable leather chair with a high back and no arms. I also have a pillow behind my lower back and a foot rest in front of the chair. So in short, I'm pretty damn comfortable when I play.

 

[darkwaters]

Never played standing up. Always felt weird to me. I us an old pressback chair. The important thing for me is that it have no arms. Maggieo: Love that chair !

My secret for total comfort, though, is a classical foot stool. Unlike a classical player I use it to raise my right leg.

 

[MickM]

I´m planning on getting one of those Roc-n-soc Nitro drum thrones... I would aprecciate a few comments on this:

how does it work for playing guitar? is comfortable? how "tall" can it be adjusted?

I got one of those 3 yrs ago when I got my Ludwigs and never thought to play guitar in it. I'll use it tonite instead of my metal folder.

The drum throne looks like it's at its lowest point sitting next to the amp and should raise up about a foot or so. Very comfortable, also spring for the backrest too. It supports your lower back nicely for long sessions. I had a piece of nubuck leather that I cut to fit the top of the seat to keep it from eventually smelling like azz.