@bobzak and everyone else, honestly this is one of the trickiest postural things to help with without being actually in the room with a student. If this helps at all:
- First of all, I don’t look at the neck super often, like @PamPurrs is working on
- BUT, when I do need to see all the strings for more “ambitious” playing (i.e. the kind hardly anyone ever needs to do on a gig), I do turn my head to the left and then tilt it down approx 1-2 inches. That seems to be plenty of movement for me, and my bass is sitting pretty flat (front plane of body perpendicular to the floor), as I do not drink beer.
Does that feel difficult, or like a very slight forward tilt isn’t making your neck visible?
@Gio, any thoughts on this issue? Have you had students struggle with it, and what did they usually need to tweak to fix it?