Bassists who are lefties who play righty club. - Page 16

MisterFabulous · #**301** 12-09-2011, 07:32 AM

Back with a vengance...

Please welcome the newest members of Lefties who play Righty:

#228: sweetthing06;
#229: mitchgilbert;
#230: theduke1;
#231: TBDave;
#232: nortonrider;
#233: judeix808.

@judeix: the golf/batting thing is truly remarkable : I bat righty. If I played golf, it'd be righty. You have a rare talent.

Back to practice,

Mister Fabulous,
Club Secretary

rensjepensje · #**302** 12-09-2011, 08:52 AM

Count me in. Lefty playing right for almost 20 years now. Main reason: all the cool guitars were right-handed and since my excellent motoric skills prohibit me from doing things properly as a lefty anyway why bother and not just play guitar right-handed?

Salizander · #**303** 12-09-2011, 05:57 PM

I guess I'm another lefty-playing-righty bass player. I've always been somewhat ambidextrous (I can equally switch off either way when I play sports), but it was really just lack of thought as to the reason why I chose to play right handed. There was some older U.S. president who was similar, maybe Teddy Roosevelt, who joked he was only left handed when he was sitting down!

ksandvik · #**304** 12-09-2011, 05:58 PM

I've always played guitar/bass with a right side instrument even if I'm a born lefty. Have not seen any side effects so far.

Lee H · #**305** 12-09-2011, 06:24 PM

my grandmother was atimate that the world was made for right handed people. She would always tell me to use my right hand, any time she saw me do anything lefty... as a result, I have learned to do many things either right handed, or equally well with either hand..

Salizander · #**306** 12-09-2011, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lee H

my grandmother was atimate that the world was made for right handed people.

She was right (err... correct I mean

). Especially considering the last factoid on this list I found:

judeix808 · #**307** 12-10-2011, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MisterFabulous

#233: judeix808.

@judeix: the golf/batting thing is truly remarkable : I bat righty. If I played golf, it'd be righty. You have a rare talent.

Thanks for the number. Well, I either have a rare talent or I got a few wires plugged in wrong.

Another tidbit, I'm a right footed kicker. When I was younger, at a football practice, they let me tinker around at QB. One particular practice, he had me go back to punt. Well, I kicked it right footed. He looks at me and asked me what foot I kicked the ball with. I said right. He asked me if I could kick the ball left footed. I tried, completely whiffed the ball and landed on my ass.

ack · #**308** 12-10-2011, 06:24 PM

Same here.
I do almost everything lefty, but I play hockey and golf right-handed...and bass.
As for hockey and golf, it feels natural to have my strong hand on top.
As for bass, I think the reason I've never had the pinky fretting problem to overcome might be due to being pretty dexterous with my left hand...my right hand is real sloppy, which is why I will forever be in the Mediocre Bassists Club.

raynman68 · #**309** 12-21-2011, 01:54 PM

I am a lefty for everything except playing bass. Not seeing many lefty bassists or guitarists coupled with a lack of left handed models playing righty seemed the only way to go. When I started to play golf in the late 80's I played right handed because of a lack of a decent club selection. When lefty golf clubs became more widely available I made the switch to lefty and haven't looked back.

ksandvik · #**310** 12-21-2011, 01:59 PM

I've been toying with the idea to get a leftie bass and turn it other way around, fix the nut and so on. Kind of a Jimi Hendrix like bass.

chaosMK · #**311** 12-21-2011, 02:06 PM

I am a lefty that uses RH instruments.

This should be a thread for intelligent bassists. I've never known a stupid left handed person.

MisterFabulous · #**312** 12-21-2011, 04:28 PM

Happy Lefty Holidays, bassists!

Welcome the newest members of Bassists Who Are Lefties Who Play Righty:

#234: rensjepensje;
#235: Salizander;
#236: ksandvik;
#237: Lee_H;
#238: ack;
#239: raynman68;
#240: chaosMK;

Now hold it, rock it, and don't give up the groove

Mister Fabulous,
Club Secretary

xfretlessx · #**313** 12-31-2011, 09:59 AM

I write/draw left handed, shoot lefty, but play most sports and play bass righty. I can do most things either way though...never tried a lefty bass though so i dont know about that.

sooo...count me in!

jwbassman · #**314** 12-31-2011, 09:30 PM

I'm in. My dad came home with a righty guitar for my brother (also a lefty) and I to share. So I guess we had no choice. I'm certainly glad it world out that way.

Do everything else lefty. Except use a mouse.

The weird thing about it is that I went to school for graphic design. I had to take all sorts of drawing and painting classes. All of them I used my left hand for. All of my computer classes, like the multiple classes on Photoshop and Illustrator, I did everything right handed. So all my computer drawings and illustrations are done righty. Never have given it much thought until now.

msperanza28 · #**315** 12-31-2011, 09:49 PM

Count me in!!! Too many nice guitars that are right handed to buy!!

Tommygunn · #**316** 01-02-2012, 10:06 AM

I cant believe this thing has gotten so big!!

jwbassman · #**317** 01-02-2012, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommygunn

I cant believe this thing has gotten so big!!

I would have never thought there were so many of us.

Jacob J · #**318** 01-02-2012, 11:16 AM

Count me in

I write and eat left handed but I throw and kick righty and play right handed. It has always felt for me natural to play that way. Even in beginnings I tried to play left handed and just couldn´t do it. It felt weird.

Yeah, and it´s nice to see I´m not the only one in the world

ksandvik · #**319** 01-02-2012, 11:23 AM

Me thinks the whole lefty thing plays well (or bad) concerning music. What happens is that in left-wired brains the neurons are not fully in sync so they misfire from time to time.

The benefits are that left-handed people get more 'strange' ideas that then maps well into creative arts such as music. Also, this mis-firing forces left-handed people constantly to adjust to the environment so they handle more input signals. Which is good at for example jams where you need to be constantly in alert.

Unfortunately this also comes with a cost. As the brain misfires from time to time more frequently and the left-handed person can't always compensate, left-handed people are more prone to accidents (for example in traffic.) Hence one reason behind the statistically lower age.

Anyone who is left-handed could easily monitor themselves and notice how the brain sometimes does not do a proper firing/adjustment/memory recall. For me, it means that I know a piece of music inside out but I always end up doing one or two mistakes per show. Even with something like a one root-key AC/DC song.... Or you write something and notice a minute later one single wrong word, incomplete sentence or spelling mistake.

Anyway, I'm no M.D. but I've always been fascinated why many artists and creators in general were left-handed.

xfretlessx · #**320** 01-02-2012, 11:39 AM

ya ive read/heard about that before. Maybe thats why I love jamming and have a hard time playing set patterns. I have a hard time playing scales, blues walks etc., but when im given a basic progression or Im jamming, all this stuff just comes out...walks, runs, etc...but only when I have drums or something to play with. I find practicing by myself VERY hard.

It amazes me how the brain works...or...doesnt work...lol