Should i play left handed bass

I scanned with my left and ran the register with my right, and I was very fast using both hands in concert! Now, 30 years later, working in IT, I still use the right hand for key and the mouse way better than I ever could left handed. And, if I need to pickup my pen or pencil, my left hand is free to do so. Training does have an impact.

As far as my bass journey, which started a mere 18 months ago, I find that the fretboard is the most challenging aspect of learning bass.

When I pick up a guitar, my right hand feels like all thumbs with the pick in hand. Not exactly a learning resource for lefties, but worth checking out. Left handed bass learning resources lefty bass Theory. The topic of this thread is the second difference: how the left handed player learns to play bass, and I define that as having options to view fretboards and chords shown as they are played on left hand oriented basses. I hope others will point out any websites, books, videos, etc.

Less than you might think. A G on the D string is still a G on the D string — whether written in standard notation or in tablature. Learning songs on your own time and learning the instrument can be more challenging. Will this change the music you learn? At the end of the day, bass is another musical instrument. Your comfort on the instrument is ultimately going to affect how far you make it off the starting block in the beginning.

My advice as a left-handed bassist playing right-handed bass: go with what is the most comfortable to you and the rest will work itself out. Love the new re-design? Hate the new re-design?

About the question why we use dominant hand for plucking — For me it seems that plucking hand needs to be more precise to produce consistent tone and rhythm at least for beginners. A lot of movements and also hand position are similar to pen writing and therefore dominant hand is somewhat more pre trained to cope with plucking.

There are no left-handed cellos in the orchestra so I play both right. I agree with Peter, my rhythm would be just a little tighter if I had started out on left. Both I and the other bass player in our band—yes, two bass players, no guitarists facebook.

Moreover, we both play right-handed bass guitars upside down. When he was a teenager, the other bass player started playing the only bass he could afford, a right-handed precision.

I am naturally a lefty — but I play bass as well as 6-string righty. I started playing right handed from the start for one simple reason. My interest in playing guitar 6-string started in elementary school, and I attended a public school.

There were no left handed guitars available, so my desire to play over rode my natural at the time proclivity to hold the instrument as a lefty. I think with retrospect, it gave me an added sense of fretboard dexterity, as well as the natural hand strength tp fret the strings properly out of the gate.

This can only be an advantage. One of the things that are definately different is strenght, speed and stamina in the right hand — I needed to work hard to develop my right hand muscles.

On the other hand haha! I have much, much more dexterity in the left hand. Typically I can learn new figures on the fretboard very fast or adapt quickly when improvising. I too can barely play the major scale the other way round. Plucking is just about ok, but my right hand gets super confused.

Although there are a lot of practical advantages to playing right handed McCartney did make left handed bass cool, and there is a nice symmetry to a band with one lefty and one righty.

One of my closest friends is a fantastic guitar teacher with 40 years experience. He tells all his students to learn righty. His reasons — 1 most lefties are somewhat ambidextrous anyway — it is not so hard for them to learn that way. There is a lot more dexterity required in the fretting hand so lefties playing righty will have a distinct advantage.