c7sus
Disenfranchised Member
From what I understand, Gershwin's "style" came from learning to play on a player piano.
He started the piano roll, and learned to put his hands on the keys as they played the roll.
Now, if you've ever seen a player piano in action, you know they are like rudimentary MIDI--- meaning that roll could be punched to do things no human player could ever hope to accomplish.
Like play in wierd times, or even play three-handed parts at once.
I don't know if it's fact or legend.
About right/left- handed.
I'm a lefty that plays left.
And I have a lot more dexterity for some things in my right hand than I do in my left. I think it comes from learning chording and fingering on the guitar.
Like operating keys. You know, house keys, car keys. Or screwing a nut onto a bolt. I invariably hold the bolt with my left hand and turn the nut on with my right. Trying it the opposite way is always awkward.
I play fingerstyle with a flatpick, and have pretty solid rhythm chops, if I say so myself.
I think that's from being left-handed and using my left for the pick. Or maybe it's from jacking off. Lots of practive with THAT!
Something else. I don't get it how people can play guitar and TALK at the same time. I can play and SING. But don't ask me a question, because I'll have to stop playing in order to answer.
I think it's a right-brain/left brain thing.
Or I'm just too un-coordinated to do two things at once.
He started the piano roll, and learned to put his hands on the keys as they played the roll.
Now, if you've ever seen a player piano in action, you know they are like rudimentary MIDI--- meaning that roll could be punched to do things no human player could ever hope to accomplish.
Like play in wierd times, or even play three-handed parts at once.
I don't know if it's fact or legend.
About right/left- handed.
I'm a lefty that plays left.
And I have a lot more dexterity for some things in my right hand than I do in my left. I think it comes from learning chording and fingering on the guitar.
Like operating keys. You know, house keys, car keys. Or screwing a nut onto a bolt. I invariably hold the bolt with my left hand and turn the nut on with my right. Trying it the opposite way is always awkward.
I play fingerstyle with a flatpick, and have pretty solid rhythm chops, if I say so myself.
I think that's from being left-handed and using my left for the pick. Or maybe it's from jacking off. Lots of practive with THAT!Something else. I don't get it how people can play guitar and TALK at the same time. I can play and SING. But don't ask me a question, because I'll have to stop playing in order to answer.
I think it's a right-brain/left brain thing.
Or I'm just too un-coordinated to do two things at once.
