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Everytime I sit down and practice on my accoustic guitar after I eat, I feel sick to my stomach. I believe this is because I hold the guitar too tightly against my abdomen. My wife says that my singing is making me sick. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Please help because I don't want to give up playing the guitar.
sick? cant say that has ever happened maybe you should wait an hour so the food has had time to digest and as long as your singing isnt making the wife sick I dont think you have anything to worry about 
There is one answer - don't practice after you've just eaten. It might not be holding the guitar against your stomach, but rather sitting slumped or bent over too much in order to see your fretting hand.
Let a meal settle for an hour and see if you have the same sort of problem. I think it's probably down to posture, but whatever, don't give up!
This is an easy one. Everyone knows that music is more important than food....
Play music 'till you get hungry, then eat.....
I have not but if my stomach rumbles the guitar (acoustic) amplifies the noise.
Try practicing while standing and see if it happens.
Have you got a strap on that guitar Fish? I used to get back pain until I got a broad leather strap. This was just sitting down practice but a strap does mean you aren't tensing to hold the guitar on your knee. Other thing I'm thinking is that your singing technique may be the trouble. Are you finding your right key or straing to make the recording pitch? Do you warm-up first? Plenty of throat clearing and belching when I get ready to go out singing...
I have not but if my stomach rumbles the guitar (acoustic) amplifies the noise.
Try practicing while standing and see if it happens.
I tried standing while playing and I felt fine. That seems to work
Have you got a strap on that guitar Fish? I used to get back pain until I got a broad leather strap. This was just sitting down practice but a strap does mean you aren't tensing to hold the guitar on your knee. Other thing I'm thinking is that your singing technique may be the trouble. Are you finding your right key or straing to make the recording pitch? Do you warm-up first? Plenty of throat clearing and belching when I get ready to go out singing...
I feel better when I stand and play. When I buy my next guitar I am going to make sure that it has a strap. As far as singing in the right key, according to my wife who hears me sing, I couldn't find the right key if my life depended on it. As far as belching is concerned, you should hear me after a couple of beers.
Sounds like Matelot has the cure. Practice good posture when playing. That's something I dobn't do enough and I get a sore back after 20-30 minutes.
cytania wrote:Have you got a strap on that guitar Fish? I used to get back pain until I got a broad leather strap. This was just sitting down practice but a strap does mean you aren't tensing to hold the guitar on your knee. Other thing I'm thinking is that your singing technique may be the trouble. Are you finding your right key or straing to make the recording pitch? Do you warm-up first? Plenty of throat clearing and belching when I get ready to go out singing...
I feel better when I stand and play. When I buy my next guitar I am going to make sure that it has a strap. As far as singing in the right key, according to my wife who hears me sing, I couldn't find the right key if my life depended on it. As far as belching is concerned, you should hear me after a couple of beers.
according to my wife That's the problem! Get a new wife and you'll feel much better!! JUST KIDDING LADY FISH 24
I have had the same problem. It felt like a stomach cramp...like those mushrooms I ate may not have been the right kind...improving my posture and not sitting too deep in my chair fixed it. It would stand to reason that standing up would fix it too.
This is an easy one. Everyone knows that music is more important than food....
Play music 'till you get hungry, then eat.....
That method always works for me!!
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That's a good idea and it will help me to lose some extra weight tool
Weird what posture can do!!...... I have a permament dent across my right leg from the way I hold my guitar. Holding it the same way and playing everyday for 4 years..... I just got used to the dent as, I am not about to give up guitar playing....although, I should try out my strap.....haha, as my leg does look funny, especially in shorts...lol
My wife says that my singing is making me sick. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Yes. Your wife just called and she said my singing is making her sick too.
On the serious side, it's all about posture. The standing thing is good too. Given that standing is working for you, I'm betting that you have too low of a chair, or that you are slumping in it, or you are sitting too deeply in the chair or something like that. If you want to continue to sit, try a high stool like a barstool where you can't sit too deeply or slump too much or you'll fall off. That's exactly why I have ever fallen off a barstool. Too much slouching. No other reason. Nuh-uh. Nope.
I first played bass as classical upright bass in an orchestra. So now even when I play blues or country bass on an electric, I still stand. It just feels wrong to play bass when sitting for some reason. Guitar I sit, but I sit on the edge of the chair (the way Momma taught me not to) and I try my best to keep my back up straight (just the way Momma wanted me to but I never did).
If you're having too many adult beverages with dinner, perhaps the problem has nothing to do with guitar.
If you feel nauseous whenever you eat a meal, you might have a medical problem too, like gallstones or too much stomach acid or something. It it's only when you play guitar, then it's almost certainly posture.
- Zurf
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