Lefy Playing Right Club

[bassninja7]

anyone else play righty that is left handed?!

ill review the posts and PM your numbers

 

[biohazed]

I do I have always played right handed, as orginally it was cheaper to buy a righty bass than a lefty bass and i found it works better for me, In fact its the only thing I can actually do right handed lol

 

[bassninja7]

I do I have always played right handed, as orginally it was cheaper to buy a righty bass than a lefty bass and i found it works better for me, In fact its the only thing I can actually do right handed lol

welcome member #2

 

[quigg]

I didn't know there was a such thing as left handed basses when I first started playing, and now it's too late for me to make the switch.

 

[nbw]

Started messing around on my fathers acoustic, later got a very cheap guitar as a kid(didn't last long, I broke a couple of strings and they didn't replace them....). But either way, thats what I started on. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I didn't start on a left handed bass.
Honestly, both hands do their share of the work(infact I would assume it would want the dominate hand to do the fretwork *shrugs)., I don't think starting out playing playing guitar/bass would have been less awkward for me if I had a lefty to play on.
I have a lefty guitar player and he's left over some of his cheapo guitars here every now and then. I dont think it would take too much time to really play backwards, granted, no where near the level I could play naturally, but not as bad as I'd would have imagined. I find it also forces you to think about the notes and melodies since you can't just pull off the muscle memory 'licks'. Also makes me appreciate how much I've progressed over the years. lol

 

[bassninja7]

I didn't know there was a such thing as left handed basses when I first started playing, and now it's too late for me to make the switch.

#3

 

[adube810]

this thread is great! im a ******** lefty that does alot of things righty. as a lefty i write, golf, hit a baseball. as a righty i eat, play bass, throw a ball, etc.

to really blow your mind now...i learned to play bass on a lefty bass flipped over to righty so it was strung backwards and the shape of the upper horn wouldnt let me go past the 12th fret (because its upsidedown)!

after about a year of that nonsense i got a real bass and it only took me a few weeks to get used to how a bass normally is

 

[bassninja7]

this thread is great! im a ******** lefty that does alot of things righty. as a lefty i write, golf, hit a baseball. as a righty i eat, play bass, throw a ball, etc.

to really blow your mind now...i learned to play bass on a lefty bass flipped over to righty so it was strung backwards and the shape of the upper horn wouldnt let me go past the 12th fret (because its upsidedown)!

after about a year of that nonsense i got a real bass and it only took me a few weeks to get used to how a bass normally is

welcome #4

i do all left, well play bass right, lol

 

[Kalyptic]

Sign me up,
I may get a lefty bass one day tho.

 

[PilbaraBass]

I am a lefty...I play right handed...

I also do the following right handed (kids don't try this at home):

1...scissors
2...drums (right hand lead, right foot kick)
3...archery & shooting
4...golf
5...I am right footed (kick a football right)

Things I do left (is there ANYTHING that classifies me as "lefty"):

1...write
2...eat
3...screw drivers, hammers, & saws
4...bat
5...throw
6...racket sports

Driving? well being an American living in Australia...I do both

 

[tony c]

I learned how to play a righty guitar but I did all the fingerings with my right hand - upside-down. Then somebody told me that Paul McCartney had the strings reversed, and why didn't I do that? Oh, well, too late to relearn.

A year or two ago, my bass died. I had to get a new one. So, I picked up a Carvin LP76 on eBay, and it was left handed, strung up left handed. I didn't have the heart to take it to a luthier and have him cut a new nut, change the bridge, etc., etc., to string it up righty, so I learned to play it the proper way.

Now, when I go to gigs, I use a couple of basses ... my lefty/lefty for most songs, and a lefty/righty for the really hard riffs (after 40+ years playing bass, you don't get good at another technique overnight).

 

[bassninja7]

Sign me up,
I may get a lefty bass one day tho.

welcome #5

 

[bassninja7]

I am a lefty...I play right handed...

I also do the following right handed (kids don't try this at home):

1...scissors
2...drums (right hand lead, right foot kick)
3...archery & shooting
4...golf
5...I am right footed (kick a football right)

Things I do left (is there ANYTHING that classifies me as "lefty"):

1...write
2...eat
3...screw drivers, hammers, & saws
4...bat
5...throw
6...racket sports

Driving? well being an American living in Australia...I do both

welcome #6

 

[bassninja7]

I learned how to play a righty guitar but I did all the fingerings with my right hand - upside-down. Then somebody told me that Paul McCartney had the strings reversed, and why didn't I do that? Oh, well, too late to relearn.

A year or two ago, my bass died. I had to get a new one. So, I picked up a Carvin LP76 on eBay, and it was left handed, strung up left handed. I didn't have the heart to take it to a luthier and have him cut a new nut, change the bridge, etc., etc., to string it up righty, so I learned to play it the proper way.

Now, when I go to gigs, I use a couple of basses ... my lefty/lefty for most songs, and a lefty/righty for the really hard riffs (after 40+ years playing bass, you don't get good at another technique overnight).

welcome #7

 

[matthew_h]

im still learning to play , but i am left handed and play righty . my first bass is a realy nice gibson grabber . a few weeks after i got it i tryed a lefty bass a friend of a firend was selling , and i could not do any thing with it . i didnt buy it but did buy a righty squier p bass to learn on so i can keep the gibson ncie until im ready for it .

 

[bassninja7]

im still learning to play , but i am left handed and play righty . my first bass is a realy nice gibson grabber . a few weeks after i got it i tryed a lefty bass a friend of a firend was selling , and i could not do any thing with it . i didnt buy it but did buy a righty squier p bass to learn on so i can keep the gibson ncie until im ready for it .

welcome #8, and might i add you lucky SOB

pshhh gibson grabber as a first bass.......lucky lucky cat....

 

[GeoffB]

Count me in.

When I went to buy my first bass, I told them I was a lefty. They didn't have anything for me and I figured it didn't matter which way I learned. So I bought a righty.

32 years later, I wonder why they call a normal bass right-handed. It seems like I get to use my "good" hand for all the tricky fretting.

 

[vision]

I'm in on this as well...I do everything left handed except sports and bass.

 

[bassninja7]

Count me in.

When I went to buy my first bass, I told them I was a lefty. They didn't have anything for me and I figured it didn't matter which way I learned. So I bought a righty.

32 years later, I wonder why they call a normal bass right-handed. It seems like I get to use my "good" hand for all the tricky fretting.

welcome #9

 

[bassninja7]

I'm in on this as well...I do everything left handed except sports and bass.

welcome #10