playing upside down.

[CrashCarlisle]

I thought the thread was about this...

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[billgwx]

I used to play right handed basses upside down...for about 8 years. That came to an abrupt end during my "jazz fusion" era in the late 80s when I started learning slap/pop style and found my fingers totally out of position. I went out and bought a proper left handed bass and found the transition to be much easier than anticipated, but only because I had already become a fairly good player--tried to make the change once in my first year of playing and couldn't wrap my brain or fingers around it.

 

[PlungerModerno]

I used to play right handed basses upside down...for about 8 years. That came to an abrupt end during my "jazz fusion" era in the late 80s when I started learning slap/pop style and found my fingers totally out of position. I went out and bought a proper left handed bass and found the transition to be much easier than anticipated, but only because I had already become a fairly good player--tried to make the change once in my first year of playing and couldn't wrap my brain or fingers around it.

Interesting - I've only seen finger and pick playing on the inverted righty playing position . . . I can see how slap would be inconvenient - sucks that you had to switch. I know you end up paying more with less choice when it comes to lefties. Thankfully a well taken care of bass lasts a long time.

 

[billgwx]

Interesting - I've only seen finger and pick playing on the inverted righty playing position . . . I can see how slap would be inconvenient - sucks that you had to switch. I know you end up paying more with less choice when it comes to lefties. Thankfully a well taken care of bass lasts a long time.

Didn't suck at all. Surprisingly took me only a week or two to adapt to true left handed style, and I sold off the right handed bass pretty quickly too.

I don't know if I pay more for left handed instruments, but I rarely see them in local music stories, and have to buy via eBay going by photo and user description only. So far so good! A P-bass I bought earlier this year was a little cruddy, but a little 0000 steel wool and Goo-Gone easily took care of that, and it sounds great strung with LaBella flats or D'Addario tapes.