left handed prog musicians
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Topic: left handed prog musicians
Posted By: ThisWas
Subject: left handed prog musicians
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:04
| anyone know of any left handed proggers? left handedness isnt as prominent in prog i noticed, what with mccartney, hendrix and cobain all famous leftys. |
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Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:05
haha what horrible grammer i have nothing fits together |
Posted By: Plastic Man
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:18
| i just read in an interview on the king crimson website that fripp is left-handed (but plays right-handed). im in that same boat, so when i found that out i was pleased. |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:21
im a left and can play left handed, right handed, and left handed with guitar strings upside down its nice to know im not alone out there in the world haha |
Posted By: Plastic Man
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:24
| its weird, sometimes i try to play my guitar upside down, with my right hand fretting, its absolutley atrocious. |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:28
it astounds people when i get bored of playing left handed and just
take a right handed guitar and start playing upside down relatively
good, sometimes i can even transition between power chords and barre
chords to regular chords quicker and cleaner, its weird. im still quite
bad at playing right handed. its strange knowing everything, yet it
doesnt work haha. its almost surreal. you konw what the chord should
soudn like, but then its wrong becuase i dont have the strength or the
finesse in my left hand to do barre chords or such things as that. and
my right handed picking...... well i wont mention that haha
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Posted By: Plastic Man
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:36
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yeah, thats the problem for me too i think, is the right hand. its
important of course because thats where the sound is being produced.
yuo can come up with some pretty useful exercises though.
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Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:38
| are you left or right handed? |
Posted By: Plastic Man
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:42
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left. and my right hand is all messed up, the middle finger is bending
backwards at the top joint, and my ring finger was almost bitten off at
the tip by a rabbit when i was like 5, and its scarred up a little bit.
also the pinky finger of my left hand is a lot more stout and capable of
fretting moreso than my right one, so i think playing guitar right handed
is the only way i could really do it. man, im having a hard time typing, its so late. ------------- I begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly di-rected straight.. at.. meeeeeeeeee! |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:46
| haha i always have a hard time typing, im more of a handwriter,typing just pisses me off because i type too fast and always screw up and have to backspace and such. and the fact that its also late. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 06:08
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I think this has already been said but I read that Robert Fripp was a left handedplayerthat tought himself to play right handed. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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