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Post by Dutchy on Aug 16, 2008 12:39:51 GMT -5
Well if you have more in common with someone that makes you more like him or her,
if you'd have barely anything in common with anyone or when you have a best friend who is like your copy that does make you more or less one of a kind
you're always unique but you can be like others
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Post by CountessRachel on Aug 16, 2008 17:24:41 GMT -5
Righties wish they were left handed. We're just more naturally awesome. But its okay to be a lil jealous. I'd be secretly upset if I were right-handed too. ^_^ *runs* One thing I've never compeletly understood is why "right and left handed guitars" are made the way they are. I'm left handed but I don't play a "lefty" guitar. I've tried. It's impossible for me. You do more work with your left hand on a righty guitar.
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Post by nymphadora on Aug 16, 2008 17:39:47 GMT -5
Hehe I agree CR. I haven't played a guitar much, but when I go to hold it I naturally pick it up lefty.
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Post by Victim ~*of *~Circumstances on Aug 16, 2008 17:50:22 GMT -5
That is so true! My electric guitar is made for righties but it's fine. Give me a lefty guitar and I can barely play anything.xD
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Post by Consonant*** on Aug 16, 2008 18:08:12 GMT -5
Righties wish they were left handed. We're just more naturally awesome. But its okay to be a lil jealous. I'd be secretly upset if I were right-handed too. ^_^ *runs* One thing I've never compeletly understood is why "right and left handed guitars" are made the way they are. I'm left handed but I don't play a "lefty" guitar. I've tried. It's impossible for me. You do more work with your left hand on a righty guitar. Because the right hand on a righty guitar is doing more precise work than the left.
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Aug 16, 2008 19:24:03 GMT -5
My lefty grandmother got me a book about lefties when I was little and I still love it. xD It talks about traits of most left handers, everything that favor right handers ( except for the toll booth ), famous lefties, and how doctors tell if you are left handed. It's really interesting and a lot of it seems accurate. Yay for lefties! gah, i had this freaking awesome left-handed book that actually was four put into one. it was my favorite book and i could re-read over and over again. i think i lost it when i was like 11 though. D: Using my stronger hand to play the chords seems to make it easier for me, but then again, my strumming is crap. I doubt starting a leftie guitar would fix that, but the next time i go to a instrument store, i might try it out.
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Post by CountessRachel on Aug 18, 2008 1:46:02 GMT -5
Righties wish they were left handed. We're just more naturally awesome. But its okay to be a lil jealous. I'd be secretly upset if I were right-handed too. ^_^ *runs* One thing I've never compeletly understood is why "right and left handed guitars" are made the way they are. I'm left handed but I don't play a "lefty" guitar. I've tried. It's impossible for me. You do more work with your left hand on a righty guitar. Because the right hand on a righty guitar is doing more precise work than the left. Eh, not really. The strumming hand has less space to cover than the chord hand on a guitar. Especially for different styles of music that incorporate alot of quarter and sixteenth notes. Not to mention, the strumming hand stays in virtually the same position unless your picking, which, even then, your moving your fingers in a pattern over strings that the brain can more easily recognize and commit to "auto pilot" whereas the chord hand is doing more technical work. That's why, most guitarists naturally look at what they're doing on the neck of the guitar than the body.
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Aug 18, 2008 20:19:35 GMT -5
I don't understand why there are left and right handed guitars, but not righty and lefty violins and such. Then again, since violins are used mainly for orchestra only and orchestra groups follow certain positioning techniques, I guess a right handed violin wouldn't work out. All violins have to face the same direction. -_-
But it'd be nice if there were righty violins.....
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Aug 18, 2008 20:40:53 GMT -5
i asked my orchestra teacher about that once; she said it was mainly because all the violins have to face the same direction and such.
technically a violin's design is more suited for a right-handed person. on a guitar for a right-handed person, you use your left-hand on the frets and the right for picking, while with a violin your left-handed is positioned on the fingerboard and the right hand does the bowing. My right hand is as dexterous as my left-hand, which is probably why my bowing is so bad...
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Post by Consonant*** on Aug 19, 2008 0:44:26 GMT -5
Because the right hand on a righty guitar is doing more precise work than the left. Eh, not really. The strumming hand has less space to cover than the chord hand on a guitar. Especially for different styles of music that incorporate alot of quarter and sixteenth notes. Not to mention, the strumming hand stays in virtually the same position unless your picking, which, even then, your moving your fingers in a pattern over strings that the brain can more easily recognize and commit to "auto pilot" whereas the chord hand is doing more technical work. That's why, most guitarists naturally look at what they're doing on the neck of the guitar than the body. But you're making very quick, rapid motions with an incredibly small margin for error. Whereas with the fretting hand, you basically need your fingers to rest in a certain spot, and you have a large portion of the finger to work with. Each finger is more or less responsible for something different, so they each do less work, whereas with a guitar you're doing each of these arks into different strings, so its important that you have precision with the smaller margin for error. I'll admit the left hand is doing MORE work, but the right is doing more PRECISE work. A power chord sounds much worse if you strum an extra string than if one of your notes are off a half step.
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Aug 19, 2008 11:36:44 GMT -5
I disagree; I've heard chords with an extra string vs. one with a note half a step off. the second sounds horrible compared to the first. and it depends on what type of guitar playing you're doing. Not all songs have rapid strumming like a Spanish malaguena does. Some songs just require strumming up and down (and sometimes just down >.>), making them easier to play.
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Post by uverworldluv on Aug 19, 2008 11:48:16 GMT -5
Besides, people notice you when you write with your left hand. Like, when someone says "Oh wow, you're left handed? I didn't know that." Now come on, who notices when people are right handed? Nobody. Lefties ftw. I love it when that happens. It's like they're amazed by our lefthandedness. I don't understand why there are left and right handed guitars, but not righty and lefty violins and such. Then again, since violins are used mainly for orchestra only and orchestra groups follow certain positioning techniques, I guess a right handed violin wouldn't work out. All violins have to face the same direction. -_- But it'd be nice if there were righty violins..... I've tried putting my violin on my right shoulder and I don't think I could ever get used to that. XD Someone asked me once if I put my violin on the opposite shoulder because I was left handed.
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Aug 19, 2008 12:15:15 GMT -5
there are such things as left-handed violins, but they're uncommon because you can't use them in an orchestra and have to get a different chin rest and such.
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Post by uverworldluv on Aug 19, 2008 12:26:08 GMT -5
^I didn't know they made those. Would a left handed violin be put on your right shoulder? That would be really hard to get used to. I think I would stick with my regular right handed violin.
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Aug 19, 2008 12:29:16 GMT -5
yeah, but the chin-rest is also on the other side too.
personally, i think it'd be hard to learn because the hand you use on the fingerboard learns by muscle memory (unless you use tapes...), so you'd have to learn where everything is on the other hand again.
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