left handed?

[milo]

Hi all,

I am now a owner of a pa1xpro for 1,5 year. I have the feeling that i am not playing fast enough. i play oriental music...

i am left handed, probably this is the problem..are there any left handed players here and what is your experience with this? Maybe a stupid question, but is there a left handed keyboard? I personly don't think this exist and if it exist will it be better for me??

best wishes to all,

milo

[Sam CA]

Hi all,

I am now a owner of a pa1xpro for 1,5 year. I have the feeling that i am not playing fast enough. i play oriental music...

i am left handed, probably this is the problem..are there any left handed players here and what is your experience with this? Maybe a stupid question, but is there a left handed keyboard? I personly don't think this exist and if it exist will it be better for me??

best wishes to all,

milo

Gosh, I wish I was left handed!

[Rob Sherratt]

Hi Milo,

Try this (works on Pa800 and Pa2x) :

Set split keyboard.
Set split point at say C5.
Set chords to be played in the right hand (UPPER), above C5.
You can mute the UPPER tracks if you like.

Select piano solo , bozouki etc on LOWER track.
Transpose the Lower track sound +3 octaves (Track mixer, 3rd page)

There you go!

Regards,
Rob

[Jackpote]

Hi Milo,


or play like that :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnA4GAFzZm4

[Sam CA]

Hi Milo,


or play like that :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnA4GAFzZm4

he he , that was a nice clip. I dont' think if i'll even try to play keyboard like that.

[milo]

thanks all for helping

I will give it a try.. yea it was a nice clip, but as you said, i wouldn;'t play like that also:lol:

byee

[keith-helen]

Hi Milo

I am left handed and have just got on with it. I know that sounds hard simple or clever, ( I am not clever).
All the music books I have are written for right handed people, i.e chords are shown to be played in the left hand.
when you practice scales in the piano mode both hands are going up and down the scales, so when I was learning (and still am) I just followed the instructions in the books.

As an aside my daughter I bought me a 5 string banjo ( right handed)
I found this very difficult, unatural. The shaft broke so when I was in London I went to the many shops in Denmark street looking to buy a new banjo but left handed. When I discussed this with the shop assistant he asked me ' can you play the banjo' I answered NO He said then learn to play right handed and it will allow you to play most stringed instruments. Is he right, who knows I am still battling on and finding it hard.

So my opinion is keep practising and it will soon become natural.

Best wishes

Keith Lawton

[milo]

Hi Milo

I am left handed and have just got on with it. I know that sounds hard simple or clever, ( I am not clever).
All the music books I have are written for right handed people, i.e chords are shown to be played in the left hand.
when you practice scales in the piano mode both hands are going up and down the scales, so when I was learning (and still am) I just followed the instructions in the books.

As an aside my daughter I bought me a 5 string banjo ( right handed)
I found this very difficult, unatural. The shaft broke so when I was in London I went to the many shops in Denmark street looking to buy a new banjo but left handed. When I discussed this with the shop assistant he asked me ' can you play the banjo' I answered NO He said then learn to play right handed and it will allow you to play most stringed instruments. Is he right, who knows I am still battling on and finding it hard.

So my opinion is keep practising and it will soon become natural.

Best wishes

Keith Lawton

Hi Keith,

thanks for the answer..i think so too..if i practise enough, i will get faster with my right hand. Switching now would't be good, i play now for almost 2 years with my right hand, so i will keep it so and just practise with it...

byee

[Sam CA]

When I discussed this with the shop assistant he asked me ' can you play the banjo' I answered NO He said then learn to play right handed and it will allow you to play most stringed instruments. Is he right, who knows I am still battling on and finding it hard.

Well, he's very wrong about that. I've seen and recorded hundres and hundreds left handed musicians in Concerts and studios. There's no shortage of left handed Guitarists, pianists, violinists..etc . All you need is a left handed Violin, Guitar or whatever. In fact if you ever take a lesson from a ligitimate teacher, that would be the first question they ask. In case of string section, it kind of looks odd where every body's holding the bow with the right hand, and one with the left hand, but it's not unusual. It would be a very stupid thing to force someone who's naturally left handed to play it the with the weaker hand.

[Rob Sherratt]

If a left-handed piano was available, it would have C8 (highest note) on the left and C1 (lowest note) on the right. Piano pieces are not written for "right handed" pianist - the "bass clef" can be played with the right hand and the "treble clef" can be played with the left hand so long as the order of notes on the keybed is reversed for a left handed player.

With sprung keyboards that are scanned by software this would be easy to achieve. It's a valid requirement and it would eventually catch on for left handed people. The first manufacturer who adds this "left handed/ reverse key order" mode to their keyboards will undoubtedly gain good market share as the feature becomes popular.

Best regards,
Rob

[Sam CA]

There's no left handed piano, because it would serve no purpose at all in making one. Even if you reverse the order of the keys, it's not going to do you good, because both hands in piano literature are involved equally one way or another. Left hand techniques are not any easier than right hand techniques. That's not the case with instruments like Violins. Two hands are doing something completely different.

[neverkorgagain]

im left handed.. but i got use to play this keyboard type...

[jg::]

Regarding "simple" reversing of the keys, so that LH notes play high and RH plays low, this has been possible in Korg workstations since the Trinity, and it's possible on Pa800/2x.

But you have to make the setting individually for each Sound Program. There is no Global setting.

In Sound mode, go to the Pitch Mod page. Pitch Slope, is always set to +1 for the factory sounds. Set it to -1 and the keyboard is reversed for that sound!

Page 13 of the Advanced Edit Manual.

You can also use the Pitch Slope parameter to set up quarter tones or completely bizarre keyboard scalings, or, by setting the Slope to 0, all keys play the same pitch.

jg::