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harvey96 11-15-2007 09:21 AM

It would be helpful if you try to do small little things also with your right hand. For e.g. when you hold your coffee mug, pick up things from the floor, handling your remote control.......

thebassistX 11-21-2007 07:39 AM

actually it doesnt really matter....im a lefty and i learned guitar right handed
in fact it might actually be easier because ur dominant hand (left) is handling the fretboard

fool on the hill 11-29-2007 10:43 AM

I'm left handed but I have always played right handed... whatever feels right... (no pun intended)

~ josh

Drackula 12-13-2007 09:56 PM

yaaay left handed people!! :D

littleknowitall 12-14-2007 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RezZ (Post 404296)
Ill keep it in mind.

Good man, :pimp:

Seltzer 12-14-2007 09:43 PM

Scott Reeder is a leftie who plays a right handed 5 string bass upside-down. He's rather good.

UrbanAncients 12-17-2007 12:47 PM

Actually, I'm no guitar expert, I play the piano, but the string tightness on a guitar changes the pitch, the tighter the string, the higher the pitch. So if you totally twist the tuner-thingies, technically, you get the right notes and it would be the left way round.

At least that's what I think.

right-track 12-17-2007 01:51 PM

The string gauges wouldn't allow for that to happen UA.

6. Top E string (thickest)
5. A string (second thickest)
4. D string (third thickest)
3. G string (fourth thickest)
2. B string (fifth thickest)
1. Bottom E string (thinnest)

The grooves on the nut and the bridge accomadate the different gauge strings.
The nut and bridge have to be the other way round for a lefty.

UrbanAncients 12-18-2007 12:33 AM

Oh, well. My mistake! But can't you take the strings out, and then you could put them the left way round?

right-track 12-18-2007 05:11 PM

Nope.
Not unless you reversed the nut and the saddle on the bridge.
The saddle is set at an angle for intonation.

About.com: http://www.guitarrepairshop.com/repairlefty.html


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