12:37 PM
@Robusto that is a very good question actually.
I could never imagine picking with the left hand. And I am not even properly right-handed, I am ambidextrous at a handful (haha) of tasks, and outright left-handed at a few. Like dealing cards, for example. My mom and nan kept making fun of that for as long as I can remember.
And yet yes, picking is more intricate I guess. You have to hit the strings right, and there's very little room between them. On the other side you have like huge frets that are like two inches wide and it doesn't matter for shit where in that space you place what finger.
I'm talking classical, obviously. I don't use a pick. When you use a pick, I wouldn't know why the fuck you would need a whole right hand for that. Which is why I don't use it. It's literally retarded.
Now, my elder godson, for whom I only just bought a guitar maybe six weeks ago and whom I now teach to play, he actually occasionally switches back and forth between pointing it to the left and to the right. And he is not ambidextrous at all for all we can tell. But this one thing, it literally doesn't seem to make a difference to him for some reason.
Then again he can't really play seriously just yet. He struggles to keep any string pressed down. Though that doesn't seem to be part of the reason why he occasionally switches.
These are just my random ramblings on the subject.
Do with them as you will.
@Robusto I only have a bayan actually. I don't have an accordion.
Though the accordion was actually the very first instrument that I ever played. Played as in, rehearsed one song in the kindergarden, then literally never touched it again ever since. Everyone in the kindergarden got some instrument assigned, for all I should think completely at random, and I got the accordion. It weighed more than myself. My father used to carry it for me to the kindergarden and back home. It was winter, minus 20 like. Quite slippery.
Yeah lemme tell ya. That chromatic button placement annoys the fuck out of me. And it doesn't help that they color the keys black and white the same as on the piano. If anything that actually makes matter much much worse. Fucks with your brain.
But I'm sure if I played it for more than five minutes in a year, I would come to appreciate it a great deal.
It's just that it's so clunky. Every time you want to play just a single note, feels like you're strapping on stunt-double gear for half an hour.
And while I think by now I sure weigh more than the instrument, that is certainly not what the instrument thinks.
The piano is just there. At all times. You wanna play a note, you just play it. The violin is lying in its open case, with the shoulder rest strapped on and the bow tied, so again, every time you walk past it, you pick it up and play a passage. The flute I don't even need to tell you. Just make sure it's not soaking in spit. Other than that, you could be picking it up and putting it down all day long.
But good luck doing that with an accordion or a cello.
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