Any natural born Lefty's that play RH bass?

[dan.ablett]

im one of them.

dont know why i play RH and not LH basses, but im sure glad i do.
:bassi st:

[Deacon_Blues]

Check the club thread in Technique.

[Baryonyx]

My brother is the same but with guitar. He's glad he learned to play right handed, it means he has access to loads of great instruments that lefties can't play!

[NJL]

i play lefty, not by choice.. it's been a pain in the arse (i have this weird rotational issue with my left hand and can't fret a righty)...

i am left handed, but would rather be able to play righty..

[Philbiker]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

My brother is the same but with guitar. He's glad he learned to play right handed, it means he has access to loads of great instruments that lefties can't play!

My brother Pat is the same way. He plays pretty darn good bass also! He writes lefty but plays guitar and bass righty.

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by dan.ablett

im one of them.

dont know why i play RH and not LH basses, but im sure glad i do.
:bassi st:

Me too. I think I learned to play RH because the first instruments I had access to were my brother's RH guitar and a friend's RH bass.

Yes, I'm glad as well because RH basses are much more common and cheaper.

Ben

[iamlowsound]

I don't, but one of the bands that I used to play in, both guitarist were lefties that play right. Now they both play in a different band where the one plays drums right and the other plays bass right. They are both glad that they did so.

lowsound

[Wally Malone]

Lefty plays righty,

I resemble that remark.

Wally

[Flight Time]

Me, too.

[fretlessguy]

I am one as well. I am not a true left hander, however. I am quite ambidexterous (SP?) .
Most "ambi" folks can do several things with both hands as well. I am different in that there are some things I do left handed (draw, write, "finesse" things) and others I do right handed (anything requiring power, including plucking bass).
I drove my first grade teacher crazy (who offered to change me over to a righty by tying my left to the desk-hey, it was in the sixties). Some things feel more natural for the left while others feel more natural being right handed tasks.

[AlphaMale]

I am one.

[PilbaraBass]

why...OF COURSE...

[iamlowsound]

Originally Posted by fretlessguy

I am one as well. I am not a true left hander, however. I am quite ambidexterous (SP?) .
Most "ambi" folks can do several things with both hands as well. I am different in that there are some things I do left handed (draw, write, "finesse" things) and others I do right handed (anything requiring power, including plucking bass).
I drove my first grade teacher crazy (who offered to change me over to a righty by tying my left to the desk-hey, it was in the sixties). Some things feel more natural for the left while others feel more natural being right handed tasks.

I am almost fully ambidextrous, the only thing that I can't do with both hands/both ways is play bass (which I could learn quite easily, but see no point in doing it) and playing racket sports, which I could do both way, but is improper form so I stick to doing it right handed. Being ambidextrous has really helped me out with my job and I am always using tools and I can pick any of them up and use them with either hand, quite useful.

lowsound

[fo shizzle]

Me, too.....

It's strange how we all phrase this. Because I feel that as a lefty I should fret with my dominant hand. It seems more natural. Just think, all these years the right handers have been playing their instruments backwards!!

[Valerus]

me!

[hbarcat]

Same here.

I was a singer in a metal band and we lost our bassist. The guitarist handed me this old cheapo bass that he had laying around and said that since I wasn't doing anything useful with my hands when I was singing I was going to be the new bass player. I told him that I was left handed and that was a right handed bass. He said, " **** you and your left handedness, take this bass and start learning songs."

So I learned to play a right handed bass.

[Johnny Crab]

Originally Posted by dan.ablett

im one of them.
dont know why i play RH and not LH basses, but im sure glad i do.
:bassi st:

My son is.
He writes lefty but when he started bass, all I had lying around for him to use was a right-handed Cort Steinberger clone.....so he learned righty from the beginning. He's done quite well at it placing high in the state competitions last year(his senior HS year).

But really other than a "mental" issue and maybe hand strength differences, what IS the big deal?
IMO, what you start as is what becomes easiest.
Piano's I've seen seem to be "one-handed" as I've not seen one reversed(yet).

[ehque]

Me.

[Bard2dbone]

My Dad and Grampa were both left handed and played guitar right handed. I started out left handed, but was 'corrected' by a first grade teacher who had issues. In stead of making me truly right handed, I ended up kind of 'ambi-sinistrous' or equally clumsy with both hands. I usually play right handed, but have occasionally flipped things to try left handed for a while. I had the most success at that on mandolin and don't know why. It never worked on bass.

I generally do most stuff right handed, but occasionally I'll forget and flip sides. Strangely when I would get tired enough while studying to start writing left handed, I'd generally do it unconsciously and still start at the coils of the spiral notebook and work my way out to the edge of the paper.

Yes. That means I was writing backwards. In a movie my backwards left handed penmanship would have been a perfect match for my forwards right handed penmanship and I would be able to read it easily by holding it up in front of a mirror.

That's in the movies. In real life my right handed penmanship is bad. But my left handed is AWFUL. Aside from the whole backwards thing, it's just bad.

[bobba66]

Shoot left handed. Play bass right handed. Type with left index finger.