History shows us since ancient times Famous people who have portrayed Ambidexterity have known to be highly intelligent or extremely skilled at their respective fields. Some of the greatest known personalities who were blessed with this quality were Albert Einstein, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci ,Pelé (soccer), Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Hendrix and many more. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other. He often painted with both hands, when one got tired he switched to the other. The fact was they were all able to use both their hands with equal efficiency.
Was Jimi Hendrix’s (god bless him ) ambidexterity the key to his virtuosity?Christman wrote, “It enabled him to integrate the actions of his left and right hands while playing guitar, to integrate the lyrics and melodies of his songs, and perhaps even to integrate the older blues and R&B traditions with the emerging folk, rock, and psychedelic sounds of the 60s”. Certainly the guitarist’s technical virtuosity is clear. Christman points to Hendrix’s technique on songs like Still Raining, Still Dreaming, “where Hendrix uses his right hand to play an intricate series of bends and slides, while his left hand, in between plucking the strings, uses the pickup selector to switch back and forth between the treble and bass pickups”.
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