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johnhall wrote:I suspect that the lefty might find it easier to learn chording using his dominant hand.

johnhall wrote:

leftybass wrote:If I picked up a right-handed bass and tried to play it, it would feel weird and out of place.

Let's suppose there never was such a thing as a left-handed guitar. So, would it be any harder for a lefty to learn the guitar? I can't imagine that it would and I suspect that the lefty might find it easier to learn chording using his dominant hand.

I suppose that finger-picking would level out the field, however, but using a pick I can't imagine that a lefty's right hand wouldn't easily be up to the task.

leftybass wrote:If I picked up a right-handed bass and tried to play it, it would feel weird and out of place.

johnhall wrote:

leftybass wrote:If I picked up a right-handed bass and tried to play it, it would feel weird and out of place.

Let's suppose there never was such a thing as a left-handed guitar. So, would it be any harder for a lefty to learn the guitar? I can't imagine that it would and I suspect that the lefty might find it easier to learn chording using his dominant hand.

I suppose that finger-picking would level out the field, however, but using a pick I can't imagine that a lefty's right hand wouldn't easily be up to the task.

leftybass wrote:

johnhall wrote:

leftybass wrote:If I picked up a right-handed bass and tried to play it, it would feel weird and out of place.

Let's suppose there never was such a thing as a left-handed guitar. So, would it be any harder for a lefty to learn the guitar? I can't imagine that it would and I suspect that the lefty might find it easier to learn chording using his dominant hand.

I suppose that finger-picking would level out the field, however, but using a pick I can't imagine that a lefty's right hand wouldn't easily be up to the task.

I suppose it comes from the very first day I picked up a guitar, which in my case was my older sister's Suzuki nylon-string classical---which of course has a symmetrical design as all non-cutaway acoustics do. I didn't know anything about it, other than when I sat the guitar in my lap it was as a left-handed person would play.

Having said this, I would probably be considered a case-study in some circles.....I play proper bass left-handed but can also play a right handed bass upside-down fairly well. I play guitar in a rhythm-sense right-handed (open chords, bar chords and the like, finger and cross-picking)...I can play open chords left-handed, and bar chords fairly well...I cannot solo on a right-handed guitar but can on a lefty.

I write with my right hand, but brush my teeth/comb hair with my left...swing a bat righty, cut food with a knife lefty...wear a watch and a waist-belt as a lefty.....I've driven in England, too.

Truly ambidexterous..? I reckon it's something like that.

IvanMunoz wrote:

leftybass wrote:
I write with my right hand, but brush my teeth/comb hair with my left...swing a bat righty, cut food with a knife lefty...wear a watch and a waist-belt as a lefty.....I've driven in England, too.

Truly ambidexterous..? I reckon it's something like that.

Same here (but far from ambidextrous), I do a ton of stuff "left handed" but I write with my right hand. I thought it was completely normal, until I mentioned it and my friends were stunned. I cut with a knife lefty, throw lefty, bow-and-arrow lefty, and I always start to walk on my left foot (marching band did that one to me ). When writing on a large surface like a chalkboard, I'll write lefty, but on paper, righty. I play wind instruments left handed too, I started on the french horn, and just found it better to play trumpets and mellophones lefty. I had to do it righty in school, but now I do it on my own with my left hand.
And I also skateboard 'left-handed' (Goofy Stance)
Is anyone else here a 'hybrid'?

nukebass wrote:I'm sort of a hybrid, but not nearly as extensive as you. I eat (but I use the knife in the right hand), brush my teeth, brush my hair, and bat left handed, but I throw, play guitar, and used to write mainly with my right hand. I developed a tremor in my right hand about 10 years ago and have been trying to write left handed so it is somewhat legible.

leftybass wrote:Truly ambidexterous..? I reckon it's something like that.

johnhall wrote:

leftybass wrote:If I picked up a right-handed bass and tried to play it, it would feel weird and out of place.

Let's suppose there never was such a thing as a left-handed guitar. So, would it be any harder for a lefty to learn the guitar? I can't imagine that it would and I suspect that the lefty might find it easier to learn chording using his dominant hand.

I suppose that finger-picking would level out the field, however, but using a pick I can't imagine that a lefty's right hand wouldn't easily be up to the task.

Lefty4003S8 wrote:Thank God some companies make left handed guitars. Playing upside down righties is SOOOO problematic!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU Rickenbacker!!!!!!!

bassduke49 wrote:Nah. He's just trying to hook a pretzel.