From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Sitting vs. standing

Sitting vs. standing

- Hi there. I'd like to talk a little bit about sitting versus standing and how the mandolin changes and how to keep it from changing too much as you go from a sitting position to a standing, on stage for instance. Once again, I'll repeat that I do use a footstool whenever I'm sitting I get the left leg up so that the mandolin is really at an angle. And I've noticed that at workshops a lot of people need to loosen the length in their strap a little bit in order to get the mandolin to really sit between their legs, like this. But the main thing I like to make sure of is... (fluid mandolin scale) is that when I go to a standing position, things aren't changing that much in terms of the mandolin because if the strap were really long it might come down further. So, you want that thing, the mandolin, to sit with a relationship that it sits on your chest, is about the same when you're in the seating position, as when you come up to the standing position. (mandolin flourishes) And the other…

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