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Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:57:46 UTC No. 16475840
Why is the weak hand the one used for fretting when playing an instrument like a guitar?
The dominant hand is just moving up and down yet the weak hand has to do movements and weird shapes
Wouldn't it make sense for the opposite to be how we play?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:09:19 UTC No. 16475850
>>16475840
Guitar is fucking stupid.
Put that music script in a computer software and it will make any sound you want
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:11:09 UTC No. 16475851
>>16475850
And be infinitely less fun
And that has nothing to do with why left hand fret right hand strum
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:20:26 UTC No. 16475937
>>16475840
Maybe it’s intuitively easier to regulate tempo with our dominant hand.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:43:44 UTC No. 16475967
>>16475840
>The dominant hand is just moving up and down
This is because modern guitar players are gay and niggerlicious. Classical guitar requires a lot of precision for plucking. You pluck more than your fret. Compare this with your average Nickelback tier song that your average Joe comes up with. Zero subtlety. Just chose some basic bitch chords and strum away.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:10:55 UTC No. 16476632
>>16475840
Lifelong player here. It does feel backwards at first, but once you get up and running you realize all the truly "hard" stuff is done with your dominant hand. Same with using a bow on a violin, or playing the melody with your right hand on the piano.
The left hand just pushed down strings according to various patterns and maybe does a bit of muting and vibrato, but the right hand fingerpick, hybrid picks, only picks, palm mutes, rakes, scrapes, taps, etc....etc....These are what give the notes you're pressing down their dynamics and character, along with playing them in time, of course.
Stick with it and you'll see that it all makes sense.
\m/
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:25:18 UTC No. 16476644
>>16475840
It's just a historical quirk. Guitars used to be played by mainly holding a chord relatively fixed while doing active strumming or finger picking. Before electric guitars, playing melodies on single strings was not as common since it couldn't be heard over the band and the tone didn't sound so great anyway.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:43:59 UTC No. 16476672
>>16475840
Picking outputs rhythm; fretting doesn't. Simple as.