| David |
11-23-2010 12:38 AM |
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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
(Post 923440)
yes, she has a pretty strong left hand and is more concerned with keeping the rhythm going than dazzling us with right-hand runs, etc...
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Yeah, she has the sound of a left-hander because whereas a right-hander will outline the key by the usual methods--walking the bass, chunk tonality, arpeggio (broken chord), & synchopate against the downboat--Chris uses lefty sound signatures all the time, like 2-note motives that rock back & forth between the thumb & the left index (like on "Angel" or "Don't Stop"), or playing the octave from low to high (instead of high to low, the normal way for a right-hander to do it), as on "Say You Love Me" & "Rhiannon," where the low sounds with the kick drum & the high sounds with the snare or the hi hat.
Also, as has been mentioned, she shakes the maracas left-handed, a sure giveaway. On "Monday Morning," for example, when she plays both maracas & Hammond organ, her right hand does the B3 chords & her left does the maracas. A righty would do it the opposite way. (For a pop & rock pianist, a lefty's right hand is more powerful & dexterous than a righty's left hand--probably even true for classical pianists.) |
