Lefties: Do you play left- or right-handed?

[pauln]

I was originally mostly ambidextrous as a child (passed the crayon from hand to hand depending where on the drawing) but tending to left handed (everything "technical" I learned before going to school - eating, drinking, tying shoes - all left handed through today), taught to write right handed, no problem. Taught myself guitar right handed, has always felt easy.

[charlieparker]

I was originally mostly ambidextrous as a child (passed the crayon from hand to hand depending where on the drawing) but tending to left handed (everything "technical" I learned before going to school - eating, drinking, tying shoes - all left handed through today), taught to write right handed, no problem. Taught myself guitar right handed, has always felt easy.

I think your experience is different from mine in that you were probably more naturally ambidextrous than me and using your right hand for righting from a young age developed the fine motor skills for guitar.

[wolflen]

here is a left hander .. playing Right..low vid/audio quality..sorry

[Bob_Ross]

What does it even mean to play drums left handed?

Left foot is on the kick drum, right foot is on the hi-hat pedal. Time-keeping (either hihats or ride cymbal) is with the left hand, snare backbeats are with the right hand. Toms descend from smallest (highest pitch) on the right to largest (lowest pitch) on the left.

For most* right handed drummers, all of the above is reversed.


*I'm still considering "open stance" drummers like Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Simon Phillips etc. to be outliers.

[yebdox]

Leftie playing right. Cannot even imagine getting anything of consequence accomplished with my Paleolithic right hand. It DOES do a much better job of picking my nose, which further suggests its holdover from prehistoric hunter-gatherer times.

I think if all righties played left, their world would open up.