Being left-handed

[yuc4h]

I have a quite annoying problem. Despite that I have worked out my right hand more, my left hand tends to do better in octaves, trills, etc. And because many of the really complicated passages are made for the right hand in the more advanced material (I'm playing grade 5-6 pieces right now) I'm wondering if being left-handed will hinder my progress because left hand simply seems to learn faster.
Any thoughts?

[leahcim]

https://www.lefthandedpiano.co.uk/ ?

I'm left-handed but not as much as some. I write with my left hand, pretty much everything else I do right handed or for a few things, use either hand.

But I do get more tension in my right arm than my left, I wondered if my handedness was the cause [amongst many other suspects]

Whether it is or not, what I do is play a mirror version of whatever it is with the left hand, contrary motion scales etc, and then use the left hand to "teach" the right.

[yuc4h]

I'm left-handed but not as much as some. I write with my left hand, pretty much everything else I do right handed

That's pretty much the same for me I've also noticed that the right hand becomes tired faster. How difficult repertoire are you playing Leah? Do you think being left-handed has hindered your progress?

edit: And for the record, the fact that left-handed pianos are not very common (like similiar quitars), I have come to believe that being left-handed is not that much of a disadvantage.

[klick]

Im left handed too, but i think my teacher kind of screwed me over. She made me practice my right hand to become technically stronger for some reason, so my scales, trills are all much faster, and my left hand now lags behind. But when I learn something new in my technique, like dimished 7ths (2 years ago), my left hand picked it up much faster. I am currently doing Grade 7 and 8 ( ) and havent had alot of troubles, but I can see some future problems if my left hand can't catch up when doing scales at a fast tempo in more advanced works.

[leahcim]

That's pretty much the same for me I've also noticed that the right hand becomes tired faster. How difficult repertoire are you playing Leah? Do you think being left-handed has hindered your progress?

Not very advanced at all. I'm currently playing Beethoven's opus 49 number 2.

I think it hinders, but I think it's surmountable. There are any other number of things that potentially hinder and there's not a lot I can do about them e.g my current inability to hear how bad [or not] my playing is without recording it and listening back [which may improve, but hasn't done so yet], somebody posted a pdf of Godowsky exercises, which were just physically impossible - if there are advanced pieces that requires the ability to play chords like that I'm outta luck. Many other pieces have physically impossible notes in them too.

So I'm never going to be great at playing the piano, at least not for measures of greatness that are based on what advanced pieces you can play, but although the tension is greater in my right hand it's getting better, so if that is caused by left-handedness it appears to be surmountable.

edit: And for the record, the fact that left-handed pianos are not very common (like similiar quitars), I have come to believe that being left-handed is not that much of a disadvantage.

Yeah, I wasn't serious with that link I've played guitar and played a "normal" one.

[pies]

I'm left handed and have more control with the left one but the fingers on the right one are more agile.

[yuc4h]

The thing I'm hoping is that the hands will even up in time since the right hand is inevitably getting more practice.