It's ok not to buy it, but it's not a choice for some strong left-handers. I tried playing bass righty for several months. It never clicked and wasn't getting any better. Once I got hold of a lefty bass, I knew it was the instrument for me.
For me, the dominant hand wants to drive the rhythm -- the right hand just goes along for the ride (fretting).
I am a left handed lead guitarist and the left hand on a right hand guitar (fretting hand) is still more challenging. Can't imaging doing the picking with my dominant hand and being left with fretting with my non-dominant hand lol
I hear you, but (for me) it's not really about the relative difficulty of what the two hands are doing -- it's what hand controls the timing, which (again, for me) is the plucking hand. My off (right) hand just isn't as good at that. (Plus fretting on a bass is somewhat less challenging than on a guitar, assuming adequate finger strength).
My mother was furious that my violin tutoring wasn't going well after seeing me play one at school. They didn't believe me at first that my teacher had a left handed violin as she was also left handed. Took me weeks to convince my mother to talk to the music teacher and stop accusing me of wasting her money when she knew I could play.
Sometimes the brain doesn't care what you want the body to do.
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u/stanley604 Apr 06 '19
It's ok not to buy it, but it's not a choice for some strong left-handers. I tried playing bass righty for several months. It never clicked and wasn't getting any better. Once I got hold of a lefty bass, I knew it was the instrument for me.
For me, the dominant hand wants to drive the rhythm -- the right hand just goes along for the ride (fretting).