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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!

Just got this one today! Can't wait to take it to a gig tomorrow.
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all left hand Ha.

Makes you wonder... are their any known ambidextrous bassists out there? One that could play either way? I grew up playing with a left handed guitarist that learned to play only on RH instruments, the result was his fretwork was amazingly precise but his picking actually suffered. Seeing as there are very different techniques in modern bass playing (pick, finger, slap/pop), to be able to play either way would be mighty impressive... Heck, then you could have a 7-string bass on a pivot plate and the middle string would be low E and it would work as either a RL or LH 4 stringer (with a few extra strings in the way, lol)...
 
Makes you wonder... are their any known ambidextrous bassists out there? One that could play either way? I grew up playing with a left handed guitarist that learned to play only on RH instruments, the result was his fretwork was amazingly precise but his picking actually suffered. Seeing as there are very different techniques in modern bass playing (pick, finger, slap/pop), to be able to play either way would be mighty impressive... Heck, then you could have a 7-string bass on a pivot plate and the middle string would be low E and it would work as either a RL or LH 4 stringer (with a few extra strings in the way, lol)...
Look at the players using the bass with g string to the top. Using righthanded instruments playing left. I find it crazy that they learned to play that way because left handed instuments were so hard to come by. Also absolutley amazing the way that they can play. Check out “mono neon” on you tube. I cant even begin to play that well the proper way. Lol people are amazing how they can overcome a challenge and evolve into the spectacular.
 
Look at the players using the bass with g string to the top. Using righthanded instruments playing left. I find it crazy that they learned to play that way because left handed instuments were so hard to come by. Also absolutley amazing the way that they can play. Check out “mono neon” on you tube. I cant even begin to play that well the proper way. Lol people are amazing how they can overcome a challenge and evolve into the spectacular.
totally, I play with a guitarist that plays like that and it's a royal pain...normally one can wing songs they don't know by looking at the right handed guitarist's left hand....not here...:rollno:
 
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