My son is left handed but he learned to play a right handed basses just fine. Is this something very difficult to learn? Same goes for dinner and computer.
There was no need to mirror the picture, because it has now added to the confusion. But anyway: you’re playing a right-handed bass left-handed. Therefore, you’re holding it upside down. This is a Bad Thing™. Either hold it the right way up or switch to a left-handed bass.
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Agree. This is going to be a frustrating journey otherwise. Others have done it but that does not mean it is a good plan.
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Okay, I thought I had to make the ‘position’ the way I meant, my bad! O.o
That is definitely a right handed bass. You are definitely holding it left handed.
I know the problem well 
I am predominantly right handed, but some things I do left handed. I shoot pistols right handed but shoot rifles & shotguns left handed. I brush my teeth left handed. I type left handed. I play guitar, bass and mandolin left handed
When my parents got my first guitar 40+ years ago, the first thing I did was turn it upside down.
A very patient teacher tried to get me to play right handed, which probably would have been the better option. I couldn’t do it.
He then had the shop set up my right handed guitar to play left handed — they changed the nut, reset the saddles, and restrung it lefty. I’ve played that way ever since.
Lessons learned:
- If you can learn right handed, do it. 90% of instruments and 100% of instructional materials are designed for right handed players.
- When you are first starting, everything feels awful and awkward. If both feel equally awkward, play right handed
- Left handed instruments are more available now than ever before, but you will be limited to a very few model and color options. It’s a pain in the ass
- BUT, there are very good left handed instruments out there
- There are some famous guitar players who play(ed) righty-strung instruments — Elizabeth Cotten, Albert King, Doyle Bramhall, for example. I don’t know of any bass players who play that way
- And finally, if you MUST play left handed — and I do, so I know how it feels — start looking for a left handed bass. Yours is a beauty, but probably won’t work out in the long run.
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For some it is, for others it isn’t. Check out this thread:
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Net/net.
You have a right handed bass. Play it the correct way or…
- Get a left handed bass
- Have someone mod this one into a lefty
All lessons will be useless to you trying to play upside down. If you really want to play upside down, get a thing to hang yourself from the ceiling and play that way, it would be easier than what you’re trying to do. 
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you guys are vicious.
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I know right? XD
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If you want to keep that bass then I would recommend having the nut replaced with a left-handed bass nut, and then string it upside down, so when you flip it it is correct.
Or just learn to play right-handed. It will always feel weird at first, and it may just need a setup for you to be able to play it that way.
If you are looking for support for trying to play it with the G string on top, the best I have is sympathy - it’s going to be a rough road.
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I figure that’s why I would ask before I get too far…but…I’ll be honest…it hasn’t been too difficult? O.o. I know my strings, and stuff, I just thought the notes would differ or something…but I tried both sides and…they sound the same?…like I said maybe I’m not…good at hearing notes by ear like I said but I dunno!. I do appreciate the comments, I’m learning a lot XD
Could you be more specific about what you mean by the notes sounding the same?
Like…something simple, G string, first fret…well I don’t know it by heart yet…but my chart I been trying to memorize says it should be a G#/Ab. I tried that same string/Fret right and left and it sounds the same to me?
Ahh. Yes, of course this should sound the same. I thought you meant that the G string sounded like the E string to you 
Oh no, i made sure not to make that mistake XD. so their the same? O.o
Great video by the way XD
@cobaltblue13
I’m left handed and have lived in a right handed (bastards!) world for 50 years.
As previously suggested by @John_E and others you have two realistic choices:
- Play it right handed (that’s how I play)
- Buy a left handed bass
If you do it any other way all the available learning resources on the internet won’t make any sense. Life is challenging enough with out handicapping yourself right at the start of your bass journey.
Good luck
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How on earth did you end up with a right handed Bass 
I think you are making things a lot tougher than they have to be.
I think if you leave the strings in the wrong order ie. upside down, you are setting yourself up for frustration and failure.
As others have already said several times.
Either get a left handed Bass, or take the one you have into a luthier and have the nut replaced with a one for a left handed Bass.
Not sure what that is going to cost you but should be under $100 I would think. Get an estimate before having the work done so there are no surprises.
Let us know what you decide 
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Flipping the nut, the P will be a reverse P pickup. I guess in the grand scheme this shouldn’t matter though really.
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I dunno!…I went to a music shop…asked if I could look at the Bass’s and this is what he recommended for me XD. said it was a good ‘beginner’ Bass. I didn’t…think about left hand or right hand…I didn’t know…that really made a difference o.o. Whoops!…
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