So your point is that we should burn you at the stake?
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So your point is that we should burn you at the stake?
Or, it could be the fact that 89% of the population is right handed...
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My point is that the perceived correct way to play bass is only due to historical bias.
Damn.
Or just due to the fact that there are just a lot more right handed bassists.
There's one advantage to being a lefty: it's hilarious watching a righty pick up a LH bass and try and play it. Stops people mucking around with your gear if nothing else.
There's one advantage to being a lefty: it's hilarious watching a righty pick up a LH bass and try and play it. Stops people mucking around with your gear if nothing else.
I'll still mess with your gear...
There's one advantage to being a lefty: it's hilarious watching a righty pick up a LH bass and try and play it. Stops people mucking around with your gear if nothing else.
Well, sure. Does the same happen to you when you pick up a right handed bass? Or are you ambidextrous atop your many other talents? I find it funny that a lot of people who are naturally left handed, when they begin to play a guitar or bass, often find right handed instruments more comfortable and easier to play.
I'll still mess with your gear...
Yeah, you can come fiddle with my rack if you'd like...
Well, sure. Does the same happen to you when you pick up a right handed bass? Or are you ambidextrous atop your many other talents? I find it funny that a lot of people who are naturally left handed, when they begin to play a guitar or bass, often find right handed instruments more comfortable and easier to play.
I'm ambidetrous, yeah. So I can, if I have to, play a RH bass. And my actual bass IS a RH bass, but the straplocks are on the other side (or will be when I switch them over), so I do a Hendrix and play flipped.
Oh I get it. This thread is a not so veiled attempt for Fassa to brag about how she now plays bass left-handed.
stratovani said:
A person can be literate in any language, what you are really speaking to is the maturity of the forum, not their literacy skills.
Nope. I've been playing lefty for ages now. Like, try 4 years.
And to answer the OP, yes this forum rocks.
Hey hey hey it's Faaaaaasssa Albrecht....
(I post this for no other reason then the fact that I think of the "Fat Albert" theme song every time I see Fassa's screen name.)
(I post this for no other reason then the fact that I think of the "Fat Albert" theme song every time I see Fassa's screen name.)
That visual just made it worse. Please stop.
By "historical bias", do you mean that violins, violas, cellos, and double-basses (along with pretty much every other stringed instrument) have only been made in one direction for centuries? I know a few players of these instruments that are left-handed and play just fine. Historically-speaking, left-handed instruments are a very new thing. A guitard I used to play with is left-handed and plays a right-handed guitar. He feels that the improved dexterity of his left hand (compared with his right) is a benefit to his playing. Based on his skills, and the fact that there's some logic to it, I'm not going to debate his theory (too bad he's a jackhole).
When we first pick up a stringed instrument, it's ALL foreign. The movements and coordination needs to be learned. I submit that you could have learned just as easily the right way as the wrong way.
Holy balls! Fassa has totally derailed what was originally a great thread, and made it about her left-handed agenda! :scowl:
Rush rock. Then again, they're fronted by a bassist. Again, historical bias and the fact that lefty-ness was always seen as something to be rid of.
Again, I can play the bass either way and yeah, you CAN as a lefty learn to play righty. But it's damn annoying when your hands are doing one thing and your brain is telling you to do precisely the opposite. So
!'Right' way and 'wrong' way?! Seriously, there is no such thing, only a bias towards one particular instrument positioning or way of playing.
Nothing to with a lefty agenda (although if it were my choice, there'd be no such thing as a RH bass). YOU started the silly debate about lefties. I, as a PROUD lefty, am merely defending myself. So
No Fassa, you did start in with your left handed agenda when you stated this: "Can someone do me the favor of turning the emote the other way round so he's playing the right way round (lefty)."
And, here again, you claim "'Right' way and 'wrong' way?! Seriously, there is no such thing, only a bias towards one particular instrument positioning or way of playing."
Though earlier you clearly stated: " the people who play bass the right way round" clearly stating your bias.
You show it again when you state: "(although if it were my choice, there'd be no such thing as a RH bass)"
Why? So that only 0.29% of this board could enjoy the activity?
Knock it off already.
And, here again, you claim "'Right' way and 'wrong' way?! Seriously, there is no such thing, only a bias towards one particular instrument positioning or way of playing."
Though earlier you clearly stated: " the people who play bass the right way round" clearly stating your bias.
You show it again when you state: "(although if it were my choice, there'd be no such thing as a RH bass)"
Why? So that only 0.29% of this board could enjoy the activity?
Knock it off already.
Simple solution- you said lefties can learn to play righty, so righties can learn to play lefty.
Now, back to our scheduled programming...
Now, back to our scheduled programming...
