Calling All Players of Lefty Guitars!!!

[B3Guy]

Ok, so I looked around the forum, but I couldn't find any threads on this specific topic, so here comes my question:

For any LEFT HANDED players who learned to play on a RIGHT HANDED guitar and have now switched to LEFT HANDED guitar: Is it significantly easier for a lefty to play a lefty guitar even after learning on a righty guitar?

I play right handed right now, but I am a very left-handed person. If I am going to spend thousands of dollars on a custom guitar, should I stick with right-handed, or make the switch to a left-handed model?
:rock-on: :headbang: (just thought I ought to include those left-handed smileys  :laughing7:

 

[Nando Vallart]

Well, you chose the wrong forum, here he still have the old (medieval) beliefs that lefty hands are wizards and therefore we throw then in the bonfire :laughing7:

Can't understand, if you can play a guitar right (and righteous) hand, why go to left hand, that will be harder to find guitars, etc...

 

[jalane]

LEFTIESSSSS......ASSEMBLE!!! <blows horn>

My guess is, if you've already learned how to play on a right-handed guitar, that it won't really be easier at all on a lefty.  no matter what, you need both hands to do complicated things, and i don't think it's inherently easier to strum with your dominant hand or vice versa.

I think that there is an initial awkward period of time for anyone who first starts playing a guitar, and then it starts to make sense & feel natural. This would be true of a lefty playing a righty, a lefty playing a lefty, and even (God forbid) a right-handed person learning on a lefty. 

Now that you've (i'm assuming) gotten over that hump playing right-handed, save yourself a lifetime of agony in:
1)never being able to find left-handed versions of your favorite guitars
2)paying upcharges for the crappy lefty guitars that do exist
3)having to choose from a robust color pallet of black, white, or 3-tone sunburst for those crappy lefties

this is my nightmare.  it doesn't have to be yours...

 

[AGWAN]

1)never being able to find left-handed versions of your favorite guitars
2)paying upcharges for the crappy lefty guitars that do exist
3)having to choose from a robust color pallet of black, white, or 3-tone sunburst for those crappy lefties

this is my nightmare.  it doesn't have to be yours...

THAT. GOD DAMN IT. THAAAAT.

Dear Schecter, not EVERY single guitar needs to be Red-cherry-crimson-blood moon. AUGH.

 

[B3Guy]

"no matter what, you need both hands to do complicated things, and i don't think it's inherently easier to strum with your dominant hand or vice versa."

That's kinda what I figured, but I just thought I'd check. Thanks.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Man, this sounds like the popular quote "Why do it the easy way if I can do it on a harder way?" :tard: :doh:

 

[Big V]

and even (God forbid) a right-handed person learning on a lefty.

Is it wrong? :sad: I really want to be musically ambidextrual :toothy11:

 

[Superlizard]

Speaking as a lefty, or "sinister-handed one":

Dude, don't be a traitor to our race.  Us lefties have it bad enough to suffer turncoats in our midst.

BTW, the Hammond B3 rawks.  :icon_thumright:

 

[line6man]

BTW, the Hammond B3 rawks.   :icon_thumright:

I'm going to just slip this video in here for absolutely no reason. :blob7: :blob7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WJuLeHCCs

 

[B3Guy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJeCjIwGFk :headbang1:

He yaps his trap for about a minute, but then they get down to business and blaze shoot up.

 

[line6man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJeCjIwGFk :headbang1:

He yaps his trap for about a minute, but then they get down to business and blaze shoot up.

That guy really needs to STFU when music is being played, but wow! Those guys are awesome.
I think I've seen this video a few years ago.

 

[GoDrex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5FwzRBc_Y

:laughing7:

 

[B3Guy]

Ya . . . he's the David Letterman guy, and he is REALLY annoying, but he managed to get together three of the pros, so you gotta give him a little credit. I like this vid, because it's so hard to catch Joey D. playing anything but jazz.