Lefties In Showcase

[HowToKillAKing]

I play a Gibson SG currently AGWAN, left handed, it is amazing, brilliant stage guitar and a VERY fast neck.

I know what you mean Elfro, i was suggesting just a visual representation of each guitar in each handedness, not that they have a duplicate of every guitar in the show case in left handed, as yes, that would be highly stupid.
I understand thats what the guitar builder is there for, but not all of them yet allow us to see exactly what we are buying, which puts me off, especially with so much money. Thats the advantage of the showcase, what your buying is right infront of you, but for lefties whats right infront of you is 1 or 2 Teles or Strats. :sad1:

HTKAK (Thats my band btw)

 

[AGWAN]

I play a Gibson SG currently AGWAN, left handed, it is amazing, brilliant stage guitar and a VERY fast neck.

the neck felt good in my LEFT HAND. meaning I was holding a right handed guitar. Most any neck besides Fender Vintage feels good in my RIGHT hand. that one doesn't have any damage.

so far, when shopping for Righty guitars. Gibson SG's and Inbanezii feel great, with PRS SE's feeling good till about the 12th fret, where they get a bit too thick for me.

if I can train my pinky finger to not suck on a Standard guitar.... I wont be trapped in Lefty Limbo.

Again I try to sell out my own kind. I know. I'm a monster.

 

[Cagey]

Pinky fingers are always wild. Takes a while to tame them. I don't think it has anything to do with "handedness", it has to do with how the nerve endings are separated in the hand. But, there are exercises you can do that force you to control that flying finger and they eventually have the desired effect. It just takes a while.

 

[AGWAN]

this is my hope^

also, I hope that if I strengthen it a bit... it wont hurt so much.

where do I find these exercises?

*Googles*

 

[Cagey]

where do I find these exercises?

It's not complicated. Quite simple, actually. But, it's as boring as church, so you need the same kind of mindless blind faith in the idea that it's good for you as you can muster.

First, buy a metronome. I don't care if you have to go collect returnable cans and bottles from the roadside; find a way to gather up the astronomical sum of $15 and buy one of these...

Also, once you get it you'll have to dig around the basement/garage/junk drawer and find a little piece of duct tape to put over the speaker grill. Frickin' thing's as annoying as a Chihuahua. You can turn the sound off, but then it's useless. You gotta hear it, you just don't wanna hear it like the designers who clearly never heard the production version of their wet dream ever intended for it to sound. Unless, maybe they're Nazi torturers or something...

Anyway, that thing will keep you honest and not only force you to step up, but will teach you a natural sense of time that you probably think you already have, but don't. It's a highly desirable side effect of all this, but no charge. You're welcome. Your musical friends and acquaintances will soundlessly thank you many times over as time goes on. I can't stress the importance of that skill strongly enough, and it's one of the easiest to acquire. Why so few do is a mystery for the ages.

Now, here's the boring part. Set the metronome real slow. Start from the first string at the first fret, and play one note per finger using all four fingers for the first four frets in succession, ending on your pinky. Make sure to keep all four fingers close to the fingerboard. Move to the next string and start over without missing a beat. Keep going until you reach the sixth string, then slide up a fret and do the same thing backwards. When you get to the first string again, slide up a fret and do the same thing again. Go until you run out of frets (or as high as you want to be accurate), then go back down doing the same thing. You have to sound each note clearly, or you're going too fast and you lose. Do that for an hour or so a day for months. Keep in mind that if you make mistakes and keep going, you're teaching yourself to make mistakes. That's unacceptable. Don't go any faster than you can be accurate!

Mindless and not musical at all. The very definition of boring. You really don't have to think of what you're doing at all. But, you can do it while you watch TV or something equally mindless, like listening to your girlfriend describe her day. You don't need an amp. The object of the exercise is to teach your muscles how to be accurate without giving it any thought at all. After a while, you can substitute useful scales for the rote fingering, at which point you'll be ready to add another complication: counting note positions.

This is all about mechanical accuracy, muscle memory and timing, nothing else. But, without it, you're going to have trouble doing anything else.

 

[AGWAN]

Cagey. you are MONUMENTALLY helpful.

I want you to know that.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

+1 to the metronome idea.  I hear it recommended over and over whenever I read about or speak with great guitarists.

As far as the showcase idea for lefties is concerned.  Why not just find the righty guitar you like and order the same configuration left handed?

I realize its not as good as seeing the EXACT guitar you want to buy, but with Warmoth its pretty darn close.

 

[AGWAN]

last time i Checked, if you bought from the showcase instead of custom ordered.... you saved a few hundred bucks.

Regardless of configuration, My Tele project will need to be Ordered.

 

[Cagey]

Cagey. you are MONUMENTALLY helpful.

I want you to know that.

De nada. It's like Nightclub Dwight says - this advice is passed out all the time by the greats, but hardly anybody pays attention to it. It's tiring, it's boring, it doesn't seem like it's doing any good, so while some might try it for a while, they rarely stick with it long enough for it to do any good.

It really is critical, though. It's an exercise, much like doing sit-ups or push-ups is to a body builder. Without a long-term commitment, you never gain in the first place and without constant repetition, you lose what you've gained. Over time, you'll change what you practice, but it still has to be done with discipline. There's a paradox you always have to remember: in order to go fast, you have to slow down. Not that you necessarily want to go fast, but the ability to do so means you have have all kinds of time to think about what you're doing when you're not screaming along, which almost always translates into more musical results.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Warmoth builds most anything you want from a big choice of options.  Everything from shape, material, and finish is yours to choose from their list.  It's entirely possible to order something from a list of standard options that has never existed before.  All this and people still get bent out of shape about what W didn't make in their spare time.  No good deed goes unpunished.

As far as a lefty option on showcase stuff, on a clear, transparent, or dye finish, that isn't possible because the item you're seeing is the only one with that grain pattern.