[weonlywonfiveone]

When playing guitar (Acoustic mainly, sometimes with electric) I always get pins and needles after about 30mins of playing, or less. Does anyone else get this alot? Is there something I should be avoiding or doing to prevent it? Maybe I lean on my guitar without knowing it... not sure.

In the right leg, where my guitar sits.

[evileye]

Leaning on the guitar is sure to do it, and it's something we're all inclined to do with the body size of an acoustic. I don't think there is really a way to avoid it besides just not leaning. I find that it usually helps if you sit on a bed or something, the hard surface of a chair and you're guitar body, two hard surfaces on each side of the leg make more of a squeeze, if that makes sense.

[weonlywonfiveone]

Leaning on the guitar is sure to do it, and it's something we're all inclined to do with the body size of an acoustic. I don't think there is really a way to avoid it besides just not leaning. I find that it usually helps if you sit on a bed or something, the hard surface of a chair and you're guitar body, two hard surfaces on each side of the leg make more of a squeeze, if that makes sense.

Aye. Perhaps it's my posture which is the main problem here. Me leaning over too much to see the fretboard inturn makes me press more ontop of the guitar and down onto my leg, restricting blood flow.

Dang, oughta call this sympton something to incorporate into my bluesman-stagename I am trying to think.

Mike "Deadleg" Robertson. Or just Numb-Thighs Mike

[mrbreeze]

deadleg.....you could be on to something. That's a great blues name.

[evileye]

Pretty cool name!

[weonlywonfiveone]

Deadlegs Mike. I like the sound of that, MmmHmm.

[lyra14]

Yeah, it just sounds like it's losing circulation. Just get comfortable and don't cross your legs (obviously).

[raewyn]

I've never had pins and needles in my leg but I sure as hell get cramp in my left wrist sometimes if I play too many bass notes

[wannalearn01]

I was thinking long a hard about a solution and came up with something: Stand-up and play

What I do, not sure if it is the best, but I sit Indian style and lean back into my couch...mainly I tend to have back slouch forward posture...and i don't have to tap the feet or anything...but sometimes when I am really jamming out I tend to "bounce". lol

T^roy