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Left Hand Bass

Hofner Violin Bass If you are a Left Hand Guitar player, and want to play left hand bass, then what are the options available for you. Now granted more and more companies are doing a left hand guitar version of their main best right hand sellers. However, with the left hand bass they clearly are not at easy to find. However, the web is a great resource for all things left hand guitar and you will find the left hand bass to suit you. After all, perhaps one of the most iconic pop images is of a left hand bass. What is that iconic pop image of legend of which I speak? It is of course Paul McCartney's Hofner Violin Bass. This legendary guitar was custom made for Paul McCartney in his Hamburg days. Nowadays, you don't need to be as rich as Paul McCartney. You can even pick these up for around $600.

With the bass, it is the more dominant hand that does the grunt work. The slapping or plucking of the strings, that give depth, tone and emotion. That is why, if you are naturally left handed, that I think you should get yourself a left hand bass. You want to feel comfortable playing it, and music needs to feel instinctive and natural. You won't get that natural feel, if you are forcing or re-educating your non-dominant hand. How you express your music comes from the how you play the strings, and what you put into it. This should flow from your dominant hand. So, just because you may not initially find a left hand bass, do not feel pressurised into getting a right hand bass and learning right hand. Remember, McCartney didn't, and I think he did all right for himself! It might take a little time, and you may need to search a bit longer than your right hand contemporaries, but as a leftie, you need to learn to play what feels instinctively correct. There are lots of left hand guitars and left hand basses out there, and it pays to look at the specialist dealers on the web. Left hand guitars are a lot easier to come by than in Paul McCartney's day, so if you want to be a left hand proponent of the four string guitar, then get yourself a Left Hand Bass.