Silvia Bluejay

I can't see any further tests than the one I took. If I was to create a test like that, I wouldn't quite do the 'if I had my time again' thing but I certainly would ask which hand you WOULD use if you were learning to write now, as very many, too many of us have been victims of 'violence' from that point of view. Indeed, in our case, I'd also ask whether you would learn to play bass righty or lefty IF choice and availability of instruments wasn't an issue, as the latter seems to be a rather important reason for going with the right-handed flow. I'm sure there are dozens of similar examples I could quote.

Sorry but I've taken that test and it's rubbish. I was taught to write with my right hand, against my will, but the test doesn't consider that possibility, so it thinks I do that out of choice, and lowers my score. Also, there is no option for doing something with either hand. And of course, if all you have available is a tool that only works right-handed, such as the vast majority of scissors, you have to teach yourself to use it right-handed if it is to work properly. That, in this test, lowers your score too.

Yes.

One word: Catholicism. Left = the Devil = evil. I still have at least one friend who averts her eyes when she sees me doing something with the 'wrong' hand, and who is happy that her left-handed older brother was forced by family and school to learn to write right-handed. Even if she's never been able to read his handwriting as a result. Thank God for computers, huh? We went to high school together; similar backgrounds, main difference between us being, she and her family are religious, I and mine are not. We're all well over 50. I do hope things have changed now.

There has been a huge amount of discussion on the topic. There are various theories, but the one that seems most plausible is that originally, on instruments like guitar and bass, the main hand was the plucking/picking one, as opposed to the fretting one, so you would learn to use your stronger hand for the most important aspect of playing. All the virtuoso stuff on the fretboard came into fashion much later, when right-handed and left-handed playing were already established as we see now. I'm not too convinced by the above, as to me - an almost totally left-handed person - playing a left-handed instrument came much more naturally than a right-handed one from the very start, and I deliberately tried both. Also, if it was true that the fretting hand has actually become the most important hand on a guitar/bass, why aren't we seeing thousands of righty players find out, when they start learning, that they're far happier playing on a lefty guitar? To confuse the issue further, in normal life most of us are on a scale of righty to lefty, as opposed to being 100% one or the other, and some lucky ones are 50%; if they are musicians, they can play whatever they like, right way up or upside down! 😮 IIRC @leftybassman392 has a lot of knowledge and info about the whole concept.

Not a problem for yours truly's tiny hands! I am also very good at using those horrid-but-handy mini-pens with the soft rubber tip. 🙃

Thank you all for your replies! Here's hoping I will be able to stop having to shout at the band and instead be able to sit and move sliders directly from my camera position. That'd be particularly useful with the volume on lead vocals vs backing vocals, and to balance the guitars (if applicable).

LOL! 😄

Can we please remember that it's usually the visitors who turn up the volume. Everybody is complaining about everybody else's noise, but when it's their turn on the amp or bass, they go full whack without even realising. Some stands, like @Chownybass IIRC, offer high quality headphone amps, but not everyone visiting is happy to use them.

Yup, they look exactly like Thomastiks, and if they are low tension and warm-sounding, that's definitely them.

"A younger Bruce Willis"*, I'll have you know. * Immortal words spoken by a 20-something punter at a Junkyard Dogs gig in Hemel. Jack is about two years younger than Bruce Willis.

I'm not sure that hanging pieces of vinyl from speakers would do the job, what with you having to add enough weight to avoid them flapping every time someone walks past. @Happy Jack's bands The Junkyard Dogs and Damo And The Dynamites have slightly different approaches to banners. The one for the Dynamites, a cheapo roller banner, seems far more effective then the one used by the Dogs. Probably due to size and colour. The Dynamites roller banner has a far smaller footprint than the Dogs' one, when the latter uses a tripod rather than being precariously gaffa-taped to the wall or a drop-down screen.

I think this thread will get more attention if I move it to GD, where it seems to belong.

Done.

Got this thread on BC Twitter earlier today. I'll try BC Facebook now if it hasn't been shared already. Good luck.

Moved from Gigs to Bassists Wanted. Good luck with your search.

I had missed this thread! 😮 I've now tweeted it to BC's followers. Good luck.

Oh, she does want the attention. But I think she doesn't deserve any.

Oh, and - "Brexit".

LOL, point taken. But I hope this thread won't continue to feature videos of 'cleavages' or 'legs' playing bass or guitar - you know, not for us to ogle, oh no, just to show what poor musicians the women in question are, but LOOK AT THEIR ASSETS, they'll get a lot of views, WON'T THEY? 😉

I'm bored to death of this topic and this thread, and yet it keeps coming back like the proverbial. I wonder if we can lock threads because they're pointless and irritating?

Shared as Basschat on FB.

The thread you started earlier has been moved to Off Topic. Edit: HERE, to be precise.

How many songs are there with the title 'Only You'?