left handed bass players.

[jamesclark]

hey, just wondering, how many other left handed bass players play a rite handed strung bass such as myself.
if so, can anyone explain the dubble thumb? I got stan sargeant's slapping down, funny thing about that, was I was doing it for almost a year before I even saw his work. but I cant for the life of me get that thumb down. now I am blind, so please be as discriptive as possible. hey, if you cant help, and your a lefty playing a righty strung bass, well then lets party.

 

[BrotherZombie]

I'm a lefty that plays a lefty bass strung upside down. I can't help with the slap question.

 

[JoeWPgh]

Everyone knows there was only one left handed bass player. He blew his mind out in a car sometime in the mid 60's. He didn't notice that the light had changed. The one and only Billy Shears stood in for him after that.

( Did I get that right?)

 

[jamesclark]

LOL. dude are you really?
I would not do that. I tought myself to play left handed but just switch the instrument around. that way I can pick up any bass and play it.*so you cant help with the dubble thumb? thats fine. hey dude, if you have skype or dropbox we could record and start a big ole bass thing.

 

[Precision101]

I do this too. Let's party

 

[jamesclark]

dude, I cant see photos dude, as I rote on the post, I am blind. do you have a skype or dropbox? we could work together.

 

[jamesclark]

LOL. who would that be sir. if so then please give me his name, i would like to look at his work.

 

[topo morto]

Can't they correct these problems surgically now? Like swap your arms round or something?

 

[Precision101]

LOL. who would that be sir. if so then please give me his name, i would like to look at his work.

Send me a message through talk bass

 

[jamesclark]

Can't they correct these problems surgically now? Like swap your arms round or something?

LOL, anythings possible, but we hare humans, its time to mess everything up. oh love zoom stuff buy the way

 

[topo morto]

oh love zoom stuff buy the way

I wouldn't have thought many digital effects boxes are easy to use for the blind - did you find one that works for you? Maybe it's not as difficult as I imagine?

 

[amimbari]

although I can also play inverted strings, anytime someone says what it is like to slap a little with the strings flipped, I always go back to this funny video of some guy just hamming it up a lil..

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[bassdude51]

The only lefty bass player that I ever heard of that played with a right handed strung bass was Keith Ferguson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Played an old early 50s right handed Fender P bass with the single coil pickup.

 

[Linnin]

Kieth Horne plays custom made left-handed basses and strings them as if he were playing a flipped righty! How crazy is that? He is an insanely good player. I'm a lefty that started out playing righty and switched when I found out Fender made left-handed basses and ordered one. Now all is left-handed bliss.

 

[smcgov]

if I'm not mistaken Eugene Gales (Eric Gales bro) plays left handed on a righty setup.

here's Eric doing it on the bass

 

[jamesclark]

dude, there a snap once I play with them for about a day, i'll figure it out. screw reading the screen, just push stuff and see what happens. or read the manual witch I only did once, ive got the zoom b1x.

mastered that one in about a month. great little pedal to. use it in just about every bass recording I make. even wen working with other musicians, its my go to pedal for reverb and compression.
it works great.

 

[Precision101]

Hey jamesclark I just got your message. Haha. We don't have to discuss anything through message. I just thought it would be easier haha.

 

[M0ses]

Can't they correct these problems surgically now? Like swap your arms round or something?

Oh my god that was perfect. The setup was sublime. I'm laughing my ass off, good sir.

 

[amimbari]

cool funky jam from those 2 guys in the video. I like to see people playing inverted like this guy who seems like he will play anything off the wall...

http://youtu.be/jj305ZZ4W2I

 

[synaesthesia]

As does Jimmy Haslip..... I started like this in the '70s and I remember agonising whether I should start again so I can slap bass. I swapped over and it wasn't hard, took maybe a month or less to accustom myself to the fingering. I can still play 'upside down' bass or guitar today, less fluidly but still possible. I'd say 1 out of 4 lefties I meet play upside down, though that is probably not an accurate measure of the population out there. It just seems that way.

Jimmy Haslip and others developed a method of slapping and popping an upside down bass, i.e low string closer to feet. I have no regrets playing in mirror image to a righty.