RH bass players...i dare you to play Lefty

[Bassius]

i absolutely love playing left handed. I'm a total retard. it's great. i try to apply everything i tell my students to do. i have all the bad habits any beginer has. it rules from a pedagogical stand point! i'm upside down and backwards. all the fingerings are the same...

 

 

someday i'll own a lefty bass...

 

 

 

[Crescent Seven]

Yeah totally. Buy a car with the steering wheel on the right, too. Except make the clutch right-footed. And drive it around Manhattan.

 

If I wanted to sound like ass, I'd buy an asshole and blow across it like a Coke bottle.

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[Tolka]

Seems a waste of time not playing the way that comes natural. It's hard enough for me to master things the natural way.

 

Cant see what advantage it would be.

[bassesofalessergod]

waste of time.

[ToeJamFootball]

I was doing this the other day, because I was bored practising. Was fun

[pwgjam]

I've tried a couple of times but only for a few seconds here and there.

I've thought a lot about trying to learn properly though. It's no different to someone learning to play who's never played before.

Never actually got round to it though.

 

I can drive a car with the steering wheel on the right though

[Tolka]

 

It's no different to someone learning to play who's never played before.

 

 

 

I would not be so sure of that. While some people are ambidextrous, the majority are not, and tend towards what's natural to them.

[jrkman]

My old guitar teacher always said that people who are right handed should force themselves to play lefty as the fretting hand will need the most coordination when they play.

[pwgjam]

 

I would not be so sure of that. While some people are ambidextrous, the majority are not, and tend towards what's natural to them.

 

 

That was my point. A right-handed person that picks up a bass for the first time will probably naturally hold it right-handed. But at the same time some people will take to the actual playing naturally and some people find it doesn't come naturally at all and it will take a lot more work to begin with.

 

Learning to play left-handed (to someone that can play right-handed) would essentially be like learning to play for a beginner that doesn't take naturally to playing.

That's how I figure it'd be if I tried to do it anyway.

[FreestyleIntruder]

I believe that's commonly referred to as 'showing off'

 

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[Bassius]

I believe that's commonly referred to as 'showing off'

 

hey,

 

 

it's me!

 

[Hamer-Bass-Head]

if I had to learn over completely from scratch I'd play lefty....why waste that strong hand plucking or picking when you could be grabbing harder chord shapes and whatnot?

[perrydabassman]

I masturbate with my left hand when I want a lil strange......

[mrs. bleepo]

how bout play the instrument upside down? like kurt cobain played his right handed guitar lefty style... keeps the hands the same, but makes the brain play upsidedown...

 

(disclaimer, my knowledge of playing instruments comes from watching my lefty hubby play, and the 4 nanoseconds i played bass as a teenager)

[s4001]

I'm ambi at a lot of things (pool included,) bass playing - not so much.

[mrs. bleepo]

i can make a fist with both hands... that is about the end of my ambi-ness...

[Narcosynthesis]

if I had to learn over completely from scratch I'd play lefty....why waste that strong hand plucking or picking when you could be grabbing harder chord shapes and whatnot?

 

I always wandered about this...

 

I am right handed, and play in the traditional fashion. So that means my stronger right hand does the simpler job of picking, while the fiddley dextrous bit is down to my poorer left hand, so playing the opposite way would make the most sense to me logically.

 

At the same time, I do know of left handed players who tried learning righty, and just couldn't do it. On a left handed instrument though, they were fine, so I guess there must be something hard wired into our brains that determined which way round the guitar goes.

[bleepo]

 

At the same time, I do know of left handed players who tried learning righty, and just couldn't do it. On a left handed instrument though, they were fine, so I guess there must be something hard wired into our brains that determined which way round the guitar goes.

 

I am that guy. Having both right and left handed guitars and basses in the house, I do occasionally pick up the wrong hand for fun. Bass I can hack away at, but guitar is not happening. If it's a right handed guitar, it must be upside down.

[pwgjam]

There are a few people that are left-handed and just took to playing guitar right-handed.

I find that quite odd.

[mlwarriner]

i've tried on more than one occasion. and every time i try, i remember why i don't.

[Thumper]

I'm left handed, but I switch back & forth with stuff.

 

Left: Write, eat, shoot, bowl, golf.

 

Right: Play bass, shoot.

 

Go figure.

 

[DBR]

Oh hey man, I tried that...I felt like I was stoned out of my gord as my legs lost their feeling and my fingers didn't want to play the right notes so I switched back to what was NORML and boy...I can play the right notes with the left hand again.

[jasper383]

 

There are a few people that are left-handed and just took to playing guitar right-handed. I find that quite odd.

 

 

Wouldn't this be because 90+% of the guitars floating around out there are right-handed, and strung right-handed?