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Is it possible to train yourself to be ambidextrous?

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the reason I'm asking this, is because I play piano and my right hand is limited by how fast my left hand can play. I want to be able to play with my left hand as good as the right

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  1. Yes


  2. More or less, yes. You can practice doing the things that you want to do with either hand and you will eventually get almost as good  with left as right, but when new,complicated manual challenges are encountered you probably will need to consciously work at mastering them with your less dominant hand.

  3. Yes, it will just take a lot of practice, you might try buying a handwriting book or something because if it works for elementary schoolers, then it can work for anyone.

  4. There's a substantial corpus of piano works for left hand only, best known of which were written by Maurice Ravel. Oddly, I've not heard of any for right hand only.

  5. Up to a point you can train yourself by practice.

    As far as piano playing is concerned, consider this: string players (guitar, violin, cello etc) use their left hand for the "difficult bit" of fingering, while the right hand just operates a plectrum or bow. So there's no reason why a pianist shouldn't develop a good LH technique.

    Boogie-woogie for example.

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