Bo Eder
Platinum Member
I'm lefty but was taught on a right hand kit. Teacher wouldn't rearrange the kit for lessons everytime and so I was "conditioned" to play right handed ever since, who knows what kind of damage this has done...
This of course, opens up another thread and a topic of discussion about whether or not you should teach or be taught one hand or the other. And it is quite controversial. There's a thread already about it here (or several). The argument goes that a piano is made one way - so everyone learns to play it that way. Horns and woodwinds are built one way, etc.,. But there are all these other instruments that can go both ways.
I figure it was already a big decision to just learn how to play, anything. Why have a teacher force you to play one way or the other just because they don't want to accommodate you? Are they doing you any favors forcing you to play right-handed? They'll tell you that you'll be able to sit-in should the situation arise. I say if you suck because you were forcing something to happen (like playing with the wrong hand), the situation of sitting-in will never come up!
A good teacher will help you discover which way is best for you and then help you get better. I say avoid those teachers who refuse to accommodate the occasional south paw player. That's more laziness then actual teaching going on.
But anyway, glad you guys all like my kit. I joked that I didn't know how much longer those old pedals would hold out, and evidently today after my practice session, my hi-hat pedal felt quite mushy. I played with the external spring adjustment and nothing changed. I think I took them to the end of the line....dammit. Time to go shopping!