Lotsa players are, myself included..
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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
- Thread starter smperry
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hmmm, I am too. I think my plucking/finger technique suffers from this somewhat..
Hmmm.... of course we are all different but the weird thing is I feel if I played as a lefty that my fret hand would suffer...... of course this is with no factual basis as I’ve only played the one way really. But I’m pretty solid with my plucking hand..... I’m finding slap styles to be a bit tricky but that’s probably because it’s a fairly new trick for this old dog.
I also have most of my experience playing in a thrash style band so I had to move my fingers pretty quick just to keep up.
Speed training. Lol.
Picked this puppy up on the weekend. Nice to have a VMP-5 in the fold. Going to leave it stock, no mods.
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Yeah, I am ambidextrous. I am left eye dominant and therefore shot a bow left handed, but I do pretty much everything else right handed.
I also shoot left handed. Most things are left but not everything.
Which hand do you write with?
Found a Carlo Robelli UBD-410 Bass on fakebook a few days ago and went and checked it out and decided I'd better snatch it up. I never knew these existed until now. Just finished taking it apart, fixed the output jack, cleaned the pots, soldered a loose wire on the 3 band active pre-amp, new battery, polished the frets, oiled the fretboard, new strings and a complete set up. Either no one ever played it or it has expensive hard frets in it. Neck/fretboard is amazingly straight/level and it sounds and plays great.
Check out Bill Clements on you tube. The man is incredible. Can do more with one than i could ever do with two.....
I do everything with my left hand except play. That's because when I showed up for my first lesson on upright, which is where I began, the teacher, a German, looked at me and thought I was insane. When I attempted to explain that I was left-handed, his response was something like, "No left hand! No left hand!".
Looking back, being left-handed is actually an advantage since my dominant hand is able to move on the fingerboard with far greater dexterity than my right hand ever could playing left handed.
By the way, this brings me to a particular issue I have. Jimi Hendrix NEVER played upside down as many claim.
If you look at any Hendrix photo while playing, you'll see that the low "E" is, in fact, on top. This is true on photos of him playing a Stratocaster, Les Paul or Flying V.
What I cannot understand is why he went through the trouble to have a conventional right-handed guitar restrung, since this involves reversing the bridge and the nut. And, in my opinion, likely made the instrument more difficult to play since the controls were at the top, rather than at the bottom of the body. Playing a single cutaway like a Les Paul must have made reaching the upper registers very difficult. Using a left-handed model would not have had these problems.
If anyone can provide an explanation why Hendrix chose to use restrung right-handed instruments, I welcome it.
By the way, for the record, Otis Rush did play upside down as did Albert King.
stevieg
Looking back, being left-handed is actually an advantage since my dominant hand is able to move on the fingerboard with far greater dexterity than my right hand ever could playing left handed.
By the way, this brings me to a particular issue I have. Jimi Hendrix NEVER played upside down as many claim.
If you look at any Hendrix photo while playing, you'll see that the low "E" is, in fact, on top. This is true on photos of him playing a Stratocaster, Les Paul or Flying V.
What I cannot understand is why he went through the trouble to have a conventional right-handed guitar restrung, since this involves reversing the bridge and the nut. And, in my opinion, likely made the instrument more difficult to play since the controls were at the top, rather than at the bottom of the body. Playing a single cutaway like a Les Paul must have made reaching the upper registers very difficult. Using a left-handed model would not have had these problems.
If anyone can provide an explanation why Hendrix chose to use restrung right-handed instruments, I welcome it.
By the way, for the record, Otis Rush did play upside down as did Albert King.
stevieg
I write, play bass, and sports right handed. My aunt is also somewhat ambidextrous, and I didn't know I was until I started doing archery.
Hey Doctor Intrepid,
Not to get pedantic or anything...However, "ambidextrous" means that one can use either hand equally well. If one uses different hands for different things, that person is "bi-dexterous". For example I write and throw with my left hand and play bass with my right. That makes me bi-dexterous. I cannot throw a foot with my right hand. If I were truly ambidextrous, I could use either hand. My choice.
Educator mode off.
S
Not to get pedantic or anything...However, "ambidextrous" means that one can use either hand equally well. If one uses different hands for different things, that person is "bi-dexterous". For example I write and throw with my left hand and play bass with my right. That makes me bi-dexterous. I cannot throw a foot with my right hand. If I were truly ambidextrous, I could use either hand. My choice.
Educator mode off.
S
I can throw a foot with both hands. Just need to find a loose foot to throw...
I knew it was just a matter of time until someone picked that up.
It should been, "I cannot throw a baseball a foot...".
Thanks, humility inspires me. ;>
stevieg
Ah! I thought you meant football! Anyway, just teasin'! reading posts when I should be working gives me plenty of time to play editor.
Next week, when before my softball team takes the field, I'm going to try throwing a ball left-handed, just to see if it goes more than a foot. 
