I use a music stand Mac @Mac ,
Cheers Brian
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Well if you aren’t used to playing standing and when you practicing standing up with your bandmates is the bulk of your choice then yes you’re cheating yourself by not practicing standing now.
Better to be ready than having to figure out how you should stand when you do practice with them. Remove an extra step if you can imo.
I practicing sitting but when I record I always stand lmao I don’t know why. I put my mouse on the cardboard box my external hard drive came with and lay my mouse on it to punch the record button so I can delete + redo millions of times.
When I did perform a bit I always stood so maybe that has something to do with it. Recording is like a performance that I want to put my body into so I stand. Don’t wanna wear my ass bone thin doing that.
Playing with your bandmates always requires a performance because if it comes to it you don’t want to stand like a tombstone when someone comes to see you play.
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I’ve got a few in my eBay watch list that have sat there for ages @TNKA36 . One day I will make a purchase but there always seems to be something else more important 
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For anybody considering purchasing a stand buy a good substantial one like this
NOT something like this
Yes they are twice the price but they are also twice the stand and twice the weight and will last you a lifetime.
I jam with others a lot and can tell you if you get the flimsy one it will get knocked over and get bent or if you use a stand at an outdoor venue the sheet music on a flimsy stand will blow over the stand because it acts like a sail in the wind.
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Hell @Mac, I’m half blind myself too:rofl:
. No way I can use an iPad or computer to read music so I just don’t read it…. I do keep a cheat sheet of the chords for songs that I play so at least I know the direction and destination of a song…. Most songs I play are never note for note covers, and many (most) times I never play them the same way twice in a row…. Guess that kinda makes me more of a “hacker” bass player - kinda the same way I coded when I wrote programs years ago…..
Keep On Thumpin’!
Lanny
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This.
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This……is why I feel I should keep my gut, helps angle the bass when standing.
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I don’t reckon I’m good enough to do this as yet @Lanny or maybe just not adventurous enough
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I see this as a feature of sitting, not a bug 
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I squat halfway between sitting and standing. So whilst I’m practicing I get to workout my core muscle groups. It’s a gym/bass combo.
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Sweet. Working on your Trujillo Crabwalk!
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wouldn’t mind his suite of chops and his sign on fee @howard
Cheers Brian
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or his Warwick collection
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true 
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On the subject, if I"m legitimately trying to practice, I do it standing up.
If I’ve just finished a 14 hour shift and feel drained, I’ll noodle on mine a bit acoustically on the couch.
My father always told me, “If you practice lazy, you will sound lazy, you will look lazy, and you will BE lazy.”
So I practice upright.
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Get used to both.
On gigs you will stand.
Practicing at home you will sit.
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I heard that James Jamerson came to a session drunk/hungover and had to lie down to play… so why limit yourself to just standing/sitting? 
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If we’re going this way then you might as well just start doing lap races and other sports events where you have to run and play your bass but you can’t just run. You have to do both at the same time.
Then judges simon cowell up the tallied points at the end for the winner. Walking the bass is out. Running it is so in right now.
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I say if you want to sit and play bass, do so. I find it quite odd, but who am i to judge. I will say, if I was in a club watching a band in which the bass player was sitting, I would just laugh and go down the street to another club.
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You better hope you are going to heaven @PamPurrs, cause if you go to hell you will be sitting down playing round wounds for eternity.
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