Diki, glad to hear of the progress. But damn man, that's a hard way to sharpen your left hand playing. But on the bright side, it should actually help. Good luck, keep it up, and stay off those electric bikes

I’ve lost more friends to car wrecks than to electric bike accidents! Statistically, they’re a damn site safer than driving on the road with the rest of you idiots! 🤪🤣❤️

However, getting back on mine may depend on how strong the right wrist comes back at. There’s a fair amount of force on the wrists while you’re riding. But because of my eyesight, I can’t drive cars anymore anyway, so if I can’t ride the E bike, I guess I will go and get an E trike. I’m a little too far out in the boonies to be without any kind of self transport.

To be honest, I don’t know if I would have worked on my left hand so hard without the accident. I’m doing very little left-hand bass these days and I must confess the tracks have made me a little lazier about covering multiple parts at the same time which used to work my left hand harder back in the live band days.

Everything has a reason… Maybe God looked at me and said “you need to shed that left hand a bit more son!“ 🤣🎹

Some of the e-bikes have "fat" tires and mountain bike-type suspension. I wouldn't want to pedal all that weight myself, but less of a big deal when you let electrons do some of the work. I believe the fat-tired bikes with suspension give the best chance of maintaining control if you encounter an irregular road surface. FWIW.

Mine was a fat tire bike (3 inch tires) but I never ride trails or off-road, so I had replaced the knobby tires with much quieter, smoother road tires. I couldn’t see the gravel in the dark, even with good headlights. (with my eyesight, I would need klieg lights!) I did not see that they hadn’t yet rolled the asphalt, and the front wheel immediately went out from under me.

It’s easy to play “coulda shoulda woulda”, every person that’s ever been in an accident says the same, but I don’t worry about that stuff. Life happens, you deal with it! The truth is, I wasn’t even supposed to be riding that night, I was going to stay at a friends and go to a concert the next day. but I had been picked to lead worship at my church for a couple of weeks while the music minister was out of town and decided to go home to shed the tunes! Wrong place, wrong time!

I had a good night playing my regular solo gig with my trio last night, it helped ease me into playing, and helped me work on which tunes I can play one-handed, and which really need both! I was definitely feeling it by the end of the evening, but a painkiller before bedtime help me get off to sleep…

Thanks for all your well wishes, the recovery continues… 🎹❤️🙏

Well, you attitude towards challenges is admirable! My mom told me not to ride a bike in the dark when I was 10, so I still follow that advice. But driving a car on a highway indeed feels more risky. While both my hands are currently fine, oddly enough my left hand is the one I use to make music while working with MIDI. I play small parts and edit them afterwards, so the right hand is used for mouse and computer keyboard, although there are about 12 buttons on the mouse itself, so I use them. Composing today is mostly about editing, so it can be done without big physical effort. For years I stayed away from it and felt that music should be about passionate playing with fingers, and quite often I believe it still, but in the same time working with music on a computer, studying new technologies and genres, writings parts which are hard or impossible to play with hands conventionally — I started to feel that I don't want to miss out on it, so I keep doing it. I wanted to take a photo of my equipment, which is Korg Microkey and a gaming mouse, but it's messy in my room, so I drew a picture instead.

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Well, here’s my debut at church doing left-handed Hammond. I wasn’t expecting to play that day, I thought I was doing sound!

https://fb.watch/BbfDCL43Qb/? (Music starts about five minutes in.)

The Hammond definitely throws up some issues compared to using a keyboard Hammond clone… You can’t transpose the keyboard up or down, it would’ve been handy (!) to transpose it up a couple of octaves so I didn’t have to perch on the end of the bench to reach the upper notes with my left hand!

Plus, the half moon Leslie speed lever is in its usual place on the far left, so basically impossible to hold anything and ramp up the Leslie, I tried holding a couple of “floaters“ with a couple of fingers on my right hand while I change Leslie speed with the left, But it’s of very limited use and hurts like the devil!

But all in all, very gratifying to find something musical with just the left hand. God always helps bring that out in me, playing in church. It’s such a privilege! And I have so much to be thankful for right now. There was definitely a time in hospital the first couple of days when I doubted I would ever be able to do this again. ❤️🎹🙏

That was incredible "left hand only" playing Diki.

Something very similar happened to me years ago, and I used the recovery time to focus on left hand walking bass lines, many which I still use to this day. Here’s to a speedy recovery!

Although I did left-hand bass for a bunch of years, I never REALLY enjoyed it! I can just achieve so much more with two right hands and a bass player!

It was fun to do as an exercise, and I made some good money on the doubling fee Lol, but my whole life I have always played two handed in bands with a bass player, and I feel most comfortable doing that.

Two restaurant gigs gigs and a church gig again this week, it gets a bit painful the next day, but that’s what it’s supposed to do! 😱🤣