I can't find many study sites that allow me to vie lessons played left-handed.
I know I could just mentally 'flip' it over but it'd be easier for me to get my fingering right with a LH view.

Any help?

I don't think there are any LH specific sites.

However, I'm sure there are plenty of LH bassists on YouTube. Our very own Dmanlamius has lessons and I believe he is/was LH. If I remember right, I believe he has played both ways in his vids.

Do not think of it as a flip, but rather like a mirror. The RH videos you are watching would be like you playing in front of a mirror.

I'm lefty and I teach a lot and it is actually a good thing to have it mirror with someone in front of you. So you really don't need a lefty in front of you or on screen.

Unless if what you are looking are tabs,then may be use it as a pic and try flipping it,it might work.

Sly

Yep, best way would be the mirror method.

I fail to notice the difference anymore.

I agree with the "mirror" comments above.

My first bass teacher was a lefty (I'm right handed), and I found it a great help getting the fingering right when he was teaching me exercises and pieces, just like looking in a mirror.

Being lefty sucks...

Be thankful you're not a lefty lumberjack.

Be thankful you're not a lefty lumberjack.


Why?

From time to time I have a lefty student and then it is strange. We don't have the mirror effect and actually I think it is weird to see a lefty play bass,I can't believe I'm one of those LOL,

Sly

From time to time I have a lefty student and then it is strange. We don't have the mirror effect and actually I think it is weird to see a lefty play bass,I can't believe I'm one of those LOL,

Sly


Try being a lefty playing righty bass and then teaching a righty friend to play....that gets interesting.

To me the easiest way is to face each other, then simply put your fingers where he/she does on the fretboard/strings, and it works well for me. With practice you can even learn to pick up a right stringed bass and play it flipped, but popping and slapping sucks. And trying to do this in front of a mirror makes my head want to pop.

To me the easiest way is to face each other, then simply put your fingers where he/she does on the fretboard/strings, and it works well for me. With practice you can even learn to pick up a right stringed bass and play it flipped, but popping and slapping sucks. And trying to do this in front of a mirror makes my head want to pop.


I find slap virtually impossible on a RH bass.

I find slap virtually impossible on a RH bass.

Well.....you did not inform us that you are playing a RH bass.

Why is that?

Well.....you did not inform us that you are playing a RH bass.

Why is that?


Because when I went to buy my first bass I didn't know there was such a thing as a LH bass, and was too scared to ask a tech if there was.

As for my Shergold, there are few LH S'golds.


EDIT: That sounds so pathetic.

Sorry for the slight derailment, but I, personally, have never understood why people play lefty basses and guitars. I am a lefty and had no problem whatsoever learning righty. Oh well, maybe that's just me.

I wonder if anyone's thought of a left handed piano, hmmm?

Asking about the left handed basses is like asking for blinker fluid...

Sorry for the slight derailment, but I, personally, have never understood why people play lefty basses and guitars. I am a lefty and had no problem whatsoever learning righty. Oh well, maybe that's just me.

I wonder if anyone's thought of a left handed piano, hmmm?

There IS a LH piano...

http://www.lefthandedpiano.co.uk/img/035_32.jpg

Asking about the left handed basses is like asking for blinker fluid...

:D

Sorry for the slight derailment, but I, personally, have never understood why people play lefty basses and guitars. I am a lefty and had no problem whatsoever learning righty. Oh well, maybe that's just me.

I wonder if anyone's thought of a left handed piano, hmmm?

oh, any lefty can learn righty, but it's harder to start and you have to upkeep. I learnt to play "right" after I was already playing the correct (left hand) way.
and their is a left handed piano.
Andy

oh, any lefty can learn righty, but it's harder to start and you have to upkeep. I learnt to play "right" after I was already playing the correct (left hand) way.
and their is a left handed piano.
Andy


I think with my next bass I'm going to start playing LH. It's much easier for my brain to handle

im left handed but i play bass right handed, ive always found it better to have my left hand doing all fret work, i cant imagine doing it the other way round

I teach guitar with a bandmate who's a lefty. When I have a new student who's a lefty, I ask him for advice on showing them chord diagrams etc. He told me to just write it as I normally would, as he's found that over time you adapt as everything is written for right hand anyway. Now if he sees something written left handed it takes him longer to work out!

im left handed but i play bass right handed, ive always found it better to have my left hand doing all fret work, i cant imagine doing it the other way round

I'm the opposite of you,I'm RH and I play LH which makes more sense to me AND you. It feels more natural,I can't even produce a good sound the other way, but I can play backward no problem,I can even play gigs with a RH bass if I want too,

Sly