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Ambisinistrous
- Thread starter Zade
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I'm left handed, although right handed felt more natural, so I play right handed.
Added bonus: if you are like most people, you probably have more strength in your dominant hand. This would give you more strength and stamina fretting notes, making it easier to play with heavier strings.
(As has become my preference.)
And as others have stated, an almost infinitely better selection of Basses, usually at better prices, as well.
Added bonus: if you are like most people, you probably have more strength in your dominant hand. This would give you more strength and stamina fretting notes, making it easier to play with heavier strings.
(As has become my preference.)
And as others have stated, an almost infinitely better selection of Basses, usually at better prices, as well.
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
Anyone can learn to play right or left handed. You'll never see someone playing left handed in a major orchestra (yes, I"m sure there is an exception somewhere). Just play right handed.
If it were me I would go right handed. I am left handed but have always played right handed. It just felt more natural having my left hand do the work on the neck. Also, as others have said you will have a much wider selection of instruments if you play right handed!
Yeah, that's what I thought too: That was just one of those things us college kids were experimenting with back then, along with acid and free love. I just figured that once they got older and had families, they all reverted to right-handedness. (I'll admit that I went through a stage of being ambisinistrous-curious myself, but I never acted on it and eventually grew out of it.)
Hey mcarp555 I see you have a few righties in your collection. 
Edit - I have no idea why some of the above is underlined!
Edit - I have no idea why some of the above is underlined!
For a brief period when I was in high school I owned a double-neck guitar (6- and 12-string necks, an Ibanez copy of the Gibson EDS-1275) and one of the other band members was a lefty who played right-handed guitars upside down. We kept trying to develop a routine where I would hold the double-neck guitar vertically and he would come up from the far side to play the lower neck while I simultaneously played the upper neck. Figured it would be one of those visual gimmicks that would cause audiences to swoon & holler. Never managed to find a tune that sounded good enough with us wailing away concurrently though.
Yes - all the rightys are first instruments, strung LH. The electric guitar has a LH nut as well. Once I progressed beyond the 'first' instrument, I never bought a righty for myself again.Hey mcarp555 I see you have a few righties in your collection.
Edit - I have no idea why some of the above is underlined!
If you CAN'T play righty then do lefty, but only for that reason.
You'll never have to wish they made anything lefty and never have to pay to have an instrument modified so you can play it.
Life is so much more simple, unless you don't want people borrowing or playing your bass. Then go fretless lefty 6 string from the beginning.
You'll never have to wish they made anything lefty and never have to pay to have an instrument modified so you can play it.
Life is so much more simple, unless you don't want people borrowing or playing your bass. Then go fretless lefty 6 string from the beginning.
Chances are that few people wants to borrow your bass at jams and sessions. Lamers with sweaty hands thats beats you pickups up, and ruin your strings. You know the pitfals. If it ain't at a left handed convent. I mean, if you stay lefty. Make it fretless too, then you're sure no one else will play it. Also a "theft" insurance. No one steals a lefty because they can't shift it for money. Convenient on stage too. You're pointed towards the center of the stage provided you'll stand to the left of any RIGHT handed drummer. Drummers wants their bass guitards at left hi-hat side. No problem hittin him with your head or neck, he sits down, you stand up... count on a few more cymbal marks and dents on your headstock though. As you're aging, you may start getting arthritis more in your left or right hand, as you switch to right handed, you're not feeling that much pain. Win Win situation. The risks are that the difference of the calluses on your fingerpads will not help. You have to rebuild them...
I thought this too. Remarkable. But I've heard that they are starting to allow two left handed people to get married in some states, these days. Honest. Took a while for the right wingers to comply. So some left handed people are still made, apparently. But since you are a bassist, this doesn't apply because:
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SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
I thought this too. Remarkable. But I've heard that they are starting to allow two left handed people to get married in some states, these days. Honest. Took a while for the right wingers to comply. So some left handed people are still made. But since you are a bassist, this doesn't apply because:
lol that is every type of awesome there is!!!!!!!
You could do "Stairway To Heaven" solo live, without omitting the 12 string jangling chords backing that solo...alas...those one had one wire and it had to go to one amp...btw, I've owned one of those too. That was my "Genesis" days.
If there's a chance you'll ever play upright, you'll thank yourself for starting electric bass with a righty.
Truth this.
(Lefty who plays righty here) I just got an EUB after playing BG and 6 string for close on 50 years.
Every time I walk round a music store and see the huge range of lefty instruments* I am glad that I chose right.
* 4 music shops that I visit weekly in my local town and I have never seen a lefty bass and only about 5 lefty guitars in the last 15 years.
I'm a lefty who plays lefty, but I might actually advise you to go with righty. I personally prefer having my plucking hand be the one that is more dextrous and has better rhythm, which for me is my left (but for you sounds like your right), and I believe going that way makes it easier to sound better in the early stages.
I'm a lefty who plays righty as well - I have always felt more power out of my right arm/hand but more precision out of my left, so I assumed the more precise and articulate hand should be on the fretboard! Then again, my guitar-fingerpicking game is pretty strong on my right hand too. *shrug*
Strings instruments are different from every other instruments ... we have a direction and one of the hands will have to work on rythm/articulation while the other will stop the strings ... on a piano both hands plays notes ... same with a wind instrument you need both hand to press the keys to sound a note etc
I remember during my college years that one of my teacher said that one of his drum student was obviously a left handed person because his leading foot was on the kick drum instead of the high-hat.
