Hi again, Sue!

First, you DO NOT want to get me started on how I came to love Montana and live in the state. We'll leave it at lucky me. :)

If you want to pursue the topic of holding guitars, proper posture (related), avoiding pain (also related) there are bunches of hits to be had from a Bing/Google search (after one sees the GT vids ;) ). I couldn't find the one I was looking for where the blogger wrote that 'the only one that thought he looked cool was his wife but that everybody thought his playing was cool.' But I did come up with this great thread on another forum discussing the 'classical vs. casual' issue, http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1514357&goto=nextnewest . And I like this one, http://g4guitarstudentupdates.blogspot.com/2010/06/classical-sitting-position-for-optimal.html , because of the picture of the great John Petrucci...I hold both my electric and acoustic very, very close to the same way as in the pic and it shows what I meant by 'similar to classical guitar players.'

Again, changing the way I held guitar really helped me...