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@Blackdream my Dad was right-handed but played golf left-handed and cricket right-handed!
When I was a student one of my lecturers was interested in this and we did a whole bunch of exercises plotting our individual L-R handedness. I can't remember them all now but I have extreme right handedness.
There's a possible genetic link between handedness and hair growth - IIRC if the whorl on your head is counterclockwise you are more likely to be left handed. So, if you can see the top of someone's head you can have a reasonable guess if they are left or right handed.
Anyone got a left handed piano btw?
My brother is left-handed but plays bass and guitar right-handed.
I am more right-handed than left-handed. With regular practice, I can get about on a guitar that is strung for left-handed but held right-handed. Some of this is to do with breaking muscle memory habits. Some of it may be to do with having to cope with the reversed strung bass register half of a Chapman Stick.
Regarding legato playing, much of my technique is based on an idea shamelessly stolen from an Allan Holdsworth interview reprinted from Guitar Player magazine. Holdsworth's recommendation was to practice pull-offs and hammer-ons until they were consistently at the same volume level as picked notes. If you are going to attempt the Edward Van Halen two-handed tapping stuff, it is also necessary to develop similar control over the right hand touch.
And I do like Jeff.
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Bowie, Knopfler and Ringo for that matter. All lefties playing right handed
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Now if i raise the bat shoulder height it still feel comfortable.. If the bat was longer and i slid my lower hand (left) down towards my left leg, i would still feel comfortable. I am now in a left handed position to play guitar. This is the feeling that makes me want to play left handed rather than right. I didn't consider my hands, just how it felt holding the instrument. Right handed players flip the bat over to the other side from their outside right leg which is a completely different feel to me.
I personally think the fretting hand does the harder work of the two - which makes the conventional 'right-handed' approach very odd.
That, I assume, is why violins started off that way, and obviously it's quite important to have them all the same way around in an orchestra.