[Jersey jack]

Do most of you anchor your solos in the first position? I've been doing a lot of soloing on my electric lately, and it occurs to me that much of the up-the-neck stuff that I'm working on simply doesn't transfer well to an acoustic guitar.

I've also been studying a lot of bluegrass guitar lately--where most players play most of the time in first position, and I wonder whether acoustic players in other genres take advantage of the ringing open strings and the richer texture of notes in first position.

Note that I said "anchor." I'm not suggesting that we remain in first position under any and all circumstances; rather I find that up the neck stuff seems to work better when when it appears as a brief variation from first position. Also, I'm not really referencing blues here, where up the neck playing sounds fine (to my ears) when there's a thumping open-string bass beneath it.