I'm lefty, wanna play with righty guitar? (house, hendrix, quote)

**right-track** · 10-09-2007, 03:22 PM

If you don't want to buy a left handed guitar and you never played before, just learn to play it upside down.

And there's nothing stopping you getting it altered.

RezZ · 10-09-2007, 05:09 PM

Well i started today playing righty so ill get used to it I already learned the song otherside!

**right-track** · 10-09-2007, 05:18 PM

It's not too difficult to have the guitar altered and it shouldn't cost a great deal, by having the nut and the saddle (on the bridge) replaced to accomodate the strings.
That way you can play left handed with the guitar upside down, but with the strings the right way up.

Gentleman Johnny · 10-09-2007, 05:50 PM

mine hooks left too, but i can still play a right handed guitar fine.

Exodizer · 10-30-2007, 12:01 AM

If you wanna play blues or something not to techniqually challenging. Hendrix is a perfect example of this genius with soul and chord progressions but not techniqually great. In the begining the left hand (while playing right handed) is the one that requires more dexterity, but as you get better (most likely into shredding) the right hand requires more and more dexterity until the right hand is the hard part. Like I said for most music it doesn't matter and if you like acoustic rock or modern rock or blues it really doesn't matter but for jazz fusion or shredding and epspecially classical it matters quite a bit.

harvey96 · 11-12-2007, 08:38 AM

Just my crazy idea. Just proceed to learn with your right hand so as to have the opportunity to train left side of your brain. It just a matter of getting used to it. I am a "righty" but I learnt to use left hand (just for fun)to do some of the things. Now, I hold toothbrush with my left hand by default. I can write with left hand with readable handwriting.

The only regret is, I'm not being smarter by using both side of my brain...

**Urban Hatemonger** · 11-12-2007, 10:52 AM

Joe Strummer was left handed.

He taught himself how to play right handed.

jgd85 · 11-12-2007, 02:10 PM

or try learning both ...

harvey96 · 11-14-2007, 08:58 AM

Don't worry. U won't mess things up.

RezZ · 11-14-2007, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harvey96

Don't worry. U won't mess things up.

Lol thanks for positive comment. And im learning, slowly, but still learning.

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10-09-2007, 03:22 PM
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right-track Avin' It! Join Date: May 2005 Location: THE PEOPLES ЯEPUBLIK ФF MAИCUИIA Posts: 5,055	It's not too difficult to have the guitar altered and it shouldn't cost a great deal, by having the nut and the saddle (on the bridge) replaced to accomodate the strings. That way you can play left handed with the guitar upside down, but with the strings the right way up. __________________ Choose Liverpool. Choose the dole queue. Choose to scam disability benefit. Choose mind-numbing, grinding efficiency over flair. Choose Torben Piechnik, Istvan Kozma and Paul Stewart. Choose not to win a single league title since the backpass rule was implemented. Choose penalties. Choose car stereos, hubcaps and stanley knives. Choose to trade on your proud sense of tradition and then not lift a finger in protest when two American billionaires who don't even know the name of your club decide to buy it. Choose to win the European Cup whilst only having to play seven matches. Choose to bask in a perpetual, sickening, media love-in. Choose celebrities who ** off out of your city as soon as they have earned the money to do so and then spend the rest of their lives harping on about how wonderful it is. Choose to sing about Munich until confronted with your own tragedy. Choose to end it all in an orgy of self pity, just another excuse to perpetuate the grief culture spawned by your selfish, insular **ed-up excuse for a city. Choose your future. Choose Scouse.

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Gentleman Johnny picadilly palare. Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Oakland Posts: 1,263	mine hooks left too, but i can still play a right handed guitar fine. __________________ sous les pavés, la plage!

10-30-2007, 12:01 AM
Exodizer Groupie Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 34	If you wanna play blues or something not to techniqually challenging. Hendrix is a perfect example of this genius with soul and chord progressions but not techniqually great. In the begining the left hand (while playing right handed) is the one that requires more dexterity, but as you get better (most likely into shredding) the right hand requires more and more dexterity until the right hand is the hard part. Like I said for most music it doesn't matter and if you like acoustic rock or modern rock or blues it really doesn't matter but for jazz fusion or shredding and epspecially classical it matters quite a bit.

11-12-2007, 08:38 AM
harvey96 Groupie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Singapore Posts: 20	Just my crazy idea. Just proceed to learn with your right hand so as to have the opportunity to train left side of your brain. It just a matter of getting used to it. I am a "righty" but I learnt to use left hand (just for fun)to do some of the things. Now, I hold toothbrush with my left hand by default. I can write with left hand with readable handwriting. The only regret is, I'm not being smarter by using both side of my brain...

11-12-2007, 10:52 AM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 9,416	Joe Strummer was left handed. He taught himself how to play right handed. __________________

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harvey96 Groupie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Singapore Posts: 20	Don't worry. U won't mess things up.