What do you mean what?
I mean what the hell are you rambling on about in that long ass post?
I will give you an example: "In my oppinion guitars etc. were probably originally designed so that strong right hand could be used for finger style playing "
If guitars were designed originally in such a way, then they would still be made in such a way. Why would they change it if that was the perfect way for a guitar to be designed.
Its whatever is comfortable for the user, left, right upside down, who cares!? everything you just spouted out is.....well bollocks!
Im sure Vitamin D or whatever helps, but I would take 2 hours daily practice over whatever it is you're banging on about.
Last edited by Jazzy_Jefferson; 12th May 2009 at 08:49 AM.
Left handed guitars? They don't know they're born these young folk. In my day, 1948/9, we had to learn to play right handed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."Originally Posted by mikeford
Like Amberience I've been avoiding this thread especially when there are knee-jerk reactions from the old guard asserting "it never hurt me" - you can never know: but in asserting that you're okay at the expense of others: you're flagging that there's some niggling doubt that needs to be buried under disbelief and sarcasm.
I've played left handed since I was six. My Grandfasther bought me a left handed classical guitar and if it had been anyone else on the planet I'd have been cowed into playing right handed by the school teacher's digging remarks or that 20 kids sat in a circle holding a guitar and mines pointing counter clockwise.
I used to borrow my Dad's Shergold when I was 16 and since he gigged with it, I had to play it upside-down - my right hand had got too good at fretting to sacrifice this (I tried for a few months to see if it'd translate and it did a little) and tried playing a different style (slide)... I got used to this and eventually got a lefty strat... I couldn't play it for about 4 months but given it was my first electric of my own I stuck with it.
I'm mostly self-taught, at the time I put my first guitar teacher's hostility toward me as I was left handed but while this featured as digs - there was a lot attitude from me having a Dad who played and made me focus on chord changes and I found that was at the expense of the songs form - I could change chords very swiftly but didn't know when to as I'd spent all my home time focussing on the wrong things. Also as Dad was a guitarist I felt a pressure to be one of the better guitarists but that wasn't going to be recognised until I could play the entire song changing the chords at the right time.
My next two teachers were both left-handed and became good friends.
Since then my teachers have been sporadic and on the whole very experienced - to Dario Cortese (week long courses at IGF) and Justin Sandercoe my left handedness made absolutely no difference these guys focus on the fingers and not expecting one on one side and one on the other - to me it made no difference to looking in the mirror and given the thoroughness of these guys own education I'm sure there were times where they observed themselves in the mirror which'd be good for me
I used to think there were degrees of left-handedness, free-thinking and levels of creativity and expression but over time I've viewed these as a conceit to validate me or subconscious reactions to havign my creativity curtailed.
left-handedness seems to help in systematizing things but don't seem to have helped me systematize the fretboard - complex trading systems take about a week - but as with all education I don't know if it's some old hang-up making learning guitar difficult.
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More importantly, this is a bit of an old thread....!!?
Fun fact
I have been teaching myself the drums for 13 years... when i first started i had no idea what drums went where.... so... I started playing the drums open handed because i didn't know better... (left hand hi hat, right hand snare)... BUT... i always kept my ride cymbal on the right behind the floor toms.... that said... i learned to play both open handed and cross handed equally, and at the same time. What that has done for me as far as creativity goes... is that it gives you a much better range of what can and cannot be done... examples.... playing a steady timing on a ride while mixing in some off-time shots on a hi hat is much less of a brain tease than it seems to be for all of my cross handed friends.... also, my feet seem to both have minds of their own. I like to exercise my brain a little by tapping a 4/4 beat with my right foot, and on the left keeping a 3/4 or 6/8 going to try and throw each other off.. i switch off alot. What ive realized through teaching is that because i have trained my arms to work equally with both techniques, they have also become allot more easy to manipulate. Same goes with my feet. At this point im just babbling, hope it helped
Ohh and after writing this whole thing i just realized this forum was for guitarists... luckily enough i pulled a jimmy hendrix as a kid and held and strung my righty guitar the wrong way... I do play both righty and lefty guitar (lefty better)
This forum is for all people, not just guitarists.
And you have posted in the drums section
I agree.
I've been playing since around 1991/1992 and learned on a right handed guitar...didn't even cross my mind to look for a lefty one. I should be be a lot better than I am mind you lol.
I would actually like a lefty guitar though, just for the hell of learning it all opposite
Last edited by FullMetalWarrior; 12th November 2010 at 04:42 PM.
I just started with the right handed way as most people do. In fact, being left handed is an advantage as I can play pretty ambidextrously without much left handed practice.
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