Are you left-handed?

[lovenotfear]

Lefty Playing righty because I don't think instruments should be left/right. I do most things left handed (write, eat, bowl, throw) but there are some things I just cannot do left handed (use left handed scissors, play bass). I also played cello for years, and I think playing lefty style would completely throw me off as it would be mirrored from my cello years.

exactly, that is how it is for me too.

 

[slaerts]

lefty playing righty also

 

[skiscem]

I'm a righty playing righty but i still fell ********!
I fell that way even when i'm not playing...

you made my day

 

[Mcfunkinstein]

no i play the right way lol i kid you all

 

[FingeringAm]

wow i made the deciding vote thats shocking it was split at 133...

 

[DanielleMuscato]

In an attempt to see how many users are lefty compared to righty, vote yes or no. The LU has quite a few members but how does it compare to the overall number? Let's find out...


P.S. For those of you who play righty but are left-handed, you can still vote lefty.

That's me (lefty plays righty).

Considering the 50/50 split, I think more left-handers are clicking on this thread than is truly representative, haha.

 

[willgroove2]

Lefty who plays righty but can play lefty on a lefty strung bass only(same with guitar) I can't do that Jimmy Haslip upside down thing but several years ago I was given a lefty bass by a friend and decided to learn to play it that way.Still can't slap left handed

 

[leftymike]

I'm a righty and do everything right-handed EXCEPT playing bass. So I'm a righty that plays lefty.

 

[patton63]

Left-handed, but play right-handed.

 

[amimbari]

Lefty who plays righty but can play lefty on a lefty strung bass only(same with guitar) I can't do that Jimmy Haslip upside down thing but several years ago I was given a lefty bass by a friend and decided to learn to play it that way.Still can't slap left handed

I love this post, you know the funny thing is I play inverted, and to me upside down is as normal as normal is to the normal players.

slap/pop is not a style that my music requires, only "flying fingers" BUT although it looks weird to watch, it is doable IF necessary, but it does require a lot more effort than fingerpicking ( I'm lazy when it comes to that, so I leave that style to the people whos requirements must use that style to play everyday )

I enjoy doing it, but only to show people it CAN be done. Does it sound "exactly" the same?, NO, but it gets the job done when required.

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

That's me (lefty plays righty).

Considering the 50/50 split, I think more left-handers are clicking on this thread than is truly representative, haha.

You think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

 

[xwpx]

I wish when I picked up my first bass the guy at the store explained what a pain it would be to find a nice bass left handed with out having to spend way more money. Instead all he told me was 'you will face the wrong way on state like Paul McCartney'
and at the time that didn't seem too terrible.

I have 4 bass' I've flipped to be left handed and 5 I bought lefty and 1 I made lefty.

 

[EADG mx]

I don't understand at all how there are "handed" instruments. It's not like a piano is completely restrung to make it a lefty piano, for example. Since both hands are vital in playing, I just don't get it.

http://www.lefthandedpiano.co.uk/



Left and play left

 

[Bob the bassist]

Well, now. . .

I play right-handed. I write left-handed. Lots of things I can do either way. . . paint, use tools, shoot pool, bat a ball (but I throw with my right. . . like a girl. . . ) mouse my computer, etc., etc.

Actually, now that I think of it, the only thing I do exclusively with my left is write. Weird.

 

[Lowbrow]

I am a lefty, and I play righty.
That's the way my first guitar teacher told me to hold the instrument, and I obeyed. He never asked me if I was left handed.
Explains a lot.

 

[GormanIsABass]

You think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

lol

Left-handedness is relatively uncommon; over 90% of the adult population is right-handed.

also im a righty playing righty, my cuz is a lefty playing righty but he plays guitar, but he onli plays righty coz he got a right handed guitar

suprises me that so many people put yes, we must have the whole 10% of leftys on talkbass

 

[Drucocu]

I'm lefthanded, but I play my instruments the "right" way...

 

[Beny]

I'm lefty, playing lefty.

 

[jinithith2]

righty playing righty. tried lefties but I just couldnt work the hands into playing position

 

[amimbari]

I wish when I picked up my first bass the guy at the store explained what a pain it would be to find a nice bass left handed with out having to spend way more money. Instead all he told me was 'you will face the wrong way on state like Paul McCartney'
and at the time that didn't seem too terrible.

I have 4 bass' I've flipped to be left handed and 5 I bought lefty and 1 I made lefty.

I was in the same boat, cause back then your correct, lefty basses were WAY more money. I just did the opposite of you, I learned how to play inverted so when I went to sell them, I could sell them to any righthander out there. Now a days Lefty basses are common place.
I love it when people ask the typical questions "how can you play like that", and "Is it harder to learn like that" --oh ya-- the answers are always the same:

harder to play/learn? ---nope. Notes are notes, chords are chords, those things are universal. EVERYTHING has a pattern. To me it is all about pattern and tone memorization, bottom line.
I hear it and play it. Would I recommend a lefty START out upside down? -- HELL NO not if they can help it, unless they have a VERY GOOD EAR for listening and learning cause you can't find a teacher who will teach you the "ART" of inverted playing.