Bass study sites which teach left-handed?

Fassa Albrecht · #1 01-14-2009, 07:45 PM

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?

CerealKiller · #2 01-14-2009, 08:07 PM

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.

slybass3000 · #3 01-14-2009, 08:09 PM

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

Rickett Customs · #4 01-14-2009, 08:12 PM

Yep, best way would be the mirror method.

I fail to notice the difference anymore.

Modo74 · #5 01-14-2009, 08:17 PM

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.

Fassa Albrecht · #6 01-14-2009, 08:35 PM

Being lefty sucks...

benthughes · #7 01-14-2009, 08:37 PM

Be thankful you're not a lefty lumberjack.

Fassa Albrecht · #8 01-14-2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by benthughes

Be thankful you're not a lefty lumberjack.

Why?

slybass3000 · #9 01-14-2009, 08:42 PM

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

Fassa Albrecht · #10 01-14-2009, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by slybass3000

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.

kosmicwizard · #11 01-14-2009, 08:50 PM

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.

Fassa Albrecht · #12 01-14-2009, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kosmicwizard

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.

CerealKiller · #13 01-14-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

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?

Fassa Albrecht · #14 01-14-2009, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by CerealKiller

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.

lunker · #15 01-14-2009, 09:26 PM

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?

ChiefLongDong · #16 01-14-2009, 09:35 PM

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

Fassa Albrecht · #17 01-14-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by lunker

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...

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChiefLongDong

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

von buck · #18 01-14-2009, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by lunker

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

Fassa Albrecht · #19 01-14-2009, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by von buck

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

trust24 · #20 01-15-2009, 09:32 AM

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