Left hander playing a righty bass upside down??

[Drucocu]

STOP! DO NOT DO THAT!

Use finger ease until the your fingers get used to the strings.

Still think you should have bought a lefty. Well, you can always sell and buy.

dont do anything on the bass, just play it, you'll get used to it!

and yes, I'd buy a lefty too..but its your money, do what ever you want.

 

[77jazzbass]

Stan Sargeant, bassist for the Tonight Show is a lefty and plays a right handed bass upside down (with the B-string on the bottom). Check out his video:



it boggles my mind how he does that.

 

[Infern0]

I used to, and let me tell you, it only slowed me down. I got really comfortable, but make the switch as soon as possible.

 

[WeeMann]

I play upside down for the last 30 some years and you can slap the bass. A lot of guitar players and bassist play this way. Keith Horne (played for Peter Frampton, Trisha Yearwood)and now Hot Apple Pie is the best funks/slap soloist I ever heard live and he has no problem trust me.

When I was first starting out I had a few lessons at what was Bass Tech in West London from a guy called Terry Gregory: Invalid Link Removed - absolutely stunning player and he played left handed on a right handed bass, strung as for a right hander. His slapping style was awesome and he used his fingers to hit the low strings and thumb to pop the higher ones.

 

[jamesclark]

dude, thats how I slap. though ive got a chepo bass so it does not sound quite rite. but thats how I do it, I am left handed, play upside down and I slap with my middle all the way to my pinky and pluck with the index and thum.
it works pritty well.

Well, most slap players thumb the E & A strings and pop the D & G strings.
This means you would have to flip-flop your hand around the bass just to get a decent sound out of it while slapping.

Or you could "thumb" with your pinky, ring, middle and index (quadruple thumping ) and pop with your thumb.

That'd be cool.

Next to impossible, I guess, but cool.

 

[Jaybirdsdot]

Check out Bassist (Mononeon) who was one of the last bassist that played with Prince! Plays a right handed Bass upsidedown and is one of the several bassist I enjoy watching

 

[rufus.K]

Mono Neon plays this way.
So does the bassist for Cory Wong & The Wongnotes

 

[Papageno]

You want to play bass upside down ?

Maybe this guy can give you some advise...

... unless you meant this...

 

[Greg Pruitt]