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Holding your guitar

The classical guitar needs to be held central to your body with the neck pointing in an upwards direction to achieve a position that allows optimal technical facility of both hands. The main methods for holding the guitar in this slightly elevated position are: 1) place your left foot on a footstool (right-handed players) with the under curve of the guitar resting on your left thigh, which should naturally place the right hand (picking hand) on the strings close to the soundhole. And 2) raising the guitar using the Gitano guitar support or the ErgoPlay guitar rest.