Left handed drummers UNITE!

JC-FISH · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:36 am Post subject: Left handed drummers UNITE!

any other lefties out there?! have you adapted to play like a right handed person or have you managed to fight through to play left handed?

Drumgeek · Little Guppy Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 30

I'm left handed. I started out playing left handed, but I gave up after a couple months. I usually play right handed, but it is fun to mix it up occasionally.

sfauts · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:18 am Post subject:

Bleeding cack handers!!

JC-FISH · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

what?! i don't get it?! oh my, but ya, i tried to start right handed, but failed miserably, so i decieded to go with my left hand and now that im decent with it, im tryin to re-teach myself the righty way Cool

TheLegace · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject:

I'm a lefty, who at first played on left side, but then needed to use his double kick for hte right.

So now I play on right, open, and you what its freaking great.

I don't know what it is, maybe its me, or maybe its the left handed, but I make the weirdist drum stuff. Like the fact that im a lefty, makes me prone to use the toms constantly, and I mean constantly.
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Meinl! · House Cat Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 160

I'm left handed, but I started for like a year, on other kits playing right handed open, until I got my kit and set it up lefty and had to relearn everything. I'm kinda in a 'transitional' period, picking up things I could do but have to relearn backwards. Smile

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Luke · Ferret Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 109

how would you play left handed?
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GriffinREX · Sea Monkey Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

I am left handed, but play on a standard "right handed" kit.
Left on HH, Right on snare. Carter Beauford and Mike Bordin style.

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drumzealot · Sea Monkey Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 13 Location: USA

I thought being left handed was a result of demon possession.

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sugacaneshane88 · Newbie Alert Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

i play left handed on a rightys kit, open handed, i just cant do good with the bass drum using my left foot. and do any other leftys play open handed with a second snare, if so where do you put it and how do you play it if its to the left of your hats?

diarrhea · Tadpole Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 24

i started off lefty, but switched to playing righty open. my drum teacher said it would be a good idea because if i was ever asked to play at any venue, i would be able to just get up there and do it.
it was kinda hard starting off, like i was uncoordinated with the ride, but now im used to it. i could go back to lefty anytime i want too.

playing righty gives lefties an advantage too, because you can utilize your left hand so much w/ cowbells and other stuff to the left of your hi-hat
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metal head · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

i play righty open
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dunomous · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:21 am Post subject:

What about the ones who are ambidextrous? ... ( ._.)
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