Maybe if I played lefty I would have been good.

[Ting Ho Dung]

Not

[atquinn]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

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Austin

[Ting Ho Dung]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

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Austin

I didn't know he was r handed. I don't get how people learn to play backwards. Before they had tabs they had chord charts but to my knowledge they didn't print them like looking in a mirror and upside down. My dad hired these two guys to do some masonry work when I was 15. I was watching them and strumming on my first guitar. I was learning some Mel Bay crap when one of them asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to his sweaty ass and he turned it upside down and got down to some Honky Tonk. Blew me away. I asked him how he learned like that and he said he didn't know.

There is another guy who plays like that. He played for Eric Clapton for a while. Don't remember his name. I'll look for it.

[atquinn]

Yeah Eric Gales is right-handed, but he learned how to play from one of his brothers who was left handed and I guess his brother played like that so he just imitated him. It definitely lends some uniqueness to his playing. I know that I would sound quite a bit different if I played upside down since my playing is very asymmetrical; I play totally different sorts of things ascending vs descending.

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Austin

[bubs_42]

I'm left handed but play right. It only made since to me to play right handed since my dominate hand was doing the work on the fretboard.

[Steve Haynie]

I'm left handed but play right. It only made since to me to play right handed since my dominate hand was doing the work on the fretboard.

That was Steve Morse's logic. He is left handed, but plays right handed. So is Joe Perry.

[chromium]

I'm a lefty that plays righty, but I simply didn't know any better when I started playing (~10-11). I was just cop'ing how the guys on TV held their guitars That had already stuck by the time I started taking lessons.

Never knew Gales was actually a righty.

[atquinn]

All lefties play piano right-handed, why not guitar?

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Austin

[SSII x 2]

I'm left handed but play right. It only made since to me to play right handed since my dominate hand was doing the work on the fretboard.

Yah, me too. I think the guitar is played as it is because in the old days,

the right had did more of the work, e.g. plucking the strings classical

style, and the left hand held down the chords. Back then guitar was

pretty much a rhythm instrument anyway...

[Tres Aardvarks]

I'm left handed but play right. It only made since to me to play right handed since my dominate hand was doing the work on the fretboard.

I thought about learning to play lefty for that same reason (I'm right handed so let my right hand deal with the fretboard), especially after I broke my left ring finger!

[Steve Haynie]

Bun E. Carlos is left handed.

[chromium]

Lady Gaga is left handed

[Jason01]

Playing left handed hasn't helped me, I still suck. I'd suck more trying to play right handed though.

[specialk]

[KH Guitar Freak]

[hrtatak]

Playing left handed hasn't helped me, I still suck. I'd suck more trying to play right handed though.

Exactly what I was gonna post.

[FrettyMcgee]

I'm left handed but play right. It only made since to me to play right handed since my dominate hand was doing the work on the fretboard.

I've heard that many times. That seems to be the go to question posed by right handed players not understanding why anyone would play left handed.

But by that logic, 90 percent of the guitars would be manufactured left handed to accommodate all the right handed people playing with their dominate hand on the fretboard.

That would be fine by me. A world of 90 percent lefty guitars would instantly relieve my hoarding.

[gorch]

It's all a matter of training. I had swapped computer mouse to the left. Even swapped the buttons on it. I then discovered that the keyboard played much better for left handers. It was a couple of hours to become fluent on it.

[kenjones]

I'm left handed, and the only reason I play guitar right-handed is because the guitar I ordered from the "Unity" catalog was delivered strung right-handed.

[velorush]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

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Austin

I didn't know he was r handed. I don't get how people learn to play backwards. Before they had tabs they had chord charts but to my knowledge they didn't print them like looking in a mirror and upside down. My dad hired these two guys to do some masonry work when I was 15. I was watching them and strumming on my first guitar. I was learning some Mel Bay crap when one of them asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to his sweaty ass and he turned it upside down and got down to some Honky Tonk. Blew me away. I asked him how he learned like that and he said he didn't know.

There is another guy who plays like that. He played for Eric Clapton for a while. Don't remember his name. I'll look for it.

Doyle Bramall, Jr. Awesome in his own right and also strings his "upside down" (as did Albert King).

[HAMERMAN]

Playing left handed hasn't helped me, I still suck. I'd suck more trying to play right handed though.

+100

Righty feels completely foreign to me so as much as I suck playing lefty I feel like playing righty was never an option.

[Ting Ho Dung]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

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Austin

I didn't know he was r handed. I don't get how people learn to play backwards. Before they had tabs they had chord charts but to my knowledge they didn't print them like looking in a mirror and upside down. My dad hired these two guys to do some masonry work when I was 15. I was watching them and strumming on my first guitar. I was learning some Mel Bay crap when one of them asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to his sweaty ass and he turned it upside down and got down to some Honky Tonk. Blew me away. I asked him how he learned like that and he said he didn't know.

There is another guy who plays like that. He played for Eric Clapton for a while. Don't remember his name. I'll look for it.

Doyle Bramall, Jr. Awesome in his own right and also strings his "upside down" (as did Albert King).

That's the guy. I thought he was great until I saw him in front of a middle school class telling them how he dropped out of HS to join a band. Worked out great for him. I hope none of the kids took his advice.

[Steve Haynie]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

-

Austin

I didn't know he was r handed. I don't get how people learn to play backwards. Before they had tabs they had chord charts but to my knowledge they didn't print them like looking in a mirror and upside down. My dad hired these two guys to do some masonry work when I was 15. I was watching them and strumming on my first guitar. I was learning some Mel Bay crap when one of them asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to his sweaty ass and he turned it upside down and got down to some Honky Tonk. Blew me away. I asked him how he learned like that and he said he didn't know.

There is another guy who plays like that. He played for Eric Clapton for a while. Don't remember his name. I'll look for it.

Doyle Bramall, Jr. Awesome in his own right and also strings his "upside down" (as did Albert King).

That's the guy. I thought he was great until I saw him in front of a middle school class telling them how he dropped out of HS to join a band. Worked out great for him. I hope none of the kids took his advice.

Apparently the guy was not too bright. The whole point of speaking to a classroom is to encourage the students to get the most out of their education.

[Ting Ho Dung]

I like the way he plays lefty, with no restringing. That way he can hand the guitar to right-handed player and they can play it normally

Funny that he's right-handed

-

Austin

I didn't know he was r handed. I don't get how people learn to play backwards. Before they had tabs they had chord charts but to my knowledge they didn't print them like looking in a mirror and upside down. My dad hired these two guys to do some masonry work when I was 15. I was watching them and strumming on my first guitar. I was learning some Mel Bay crap when one of them asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to his sweaty ass and he turned it upside down and got down to some Honky Tonk. Blew me away. I asked him how he learned like that and he said he didn't know.

There is another guy who plays like that. He played for Eric Clapton for a while. Don't remember his name. I'll look for it.

Doyle Bramall, Jr. Awesome in his own right and also strings his "upside down" (as did Albert King).

That's the guy. I thought he was great until I saw him in front of a middle school class telling them how he dropped out of HS to join a band. Worked out great for him. I hope none of the kids took his advice.

Apparently the guy was not too bright. The whole point of speaking to a classroom is to encourage the students to get the most out of their education.

Haha. Actually he came across like English was his second language. We saw him first in the Crossroads video and really thought he played with a unique style. Seemed he chewed gun to keep his timing. So we Youtubed him and learned about the upside down stringing. Searching deeper we found the video where he was talking with the kids in what looked like a school cafeteria. I enjoyed the other videos but regretted showing that one to Brandon. Brandon was 15 or 16 at the time and I was trying my best to keep him interested both in school and in the guitar. And trying to keep him from going down the dark side.

I wonder what the reception around the office cooler was after Bramhall's words of wisdom sunk their educational curriculum for the remainder of the year. I've been looking for the video but it is so far buried now I couldn't find it.

[it's me HHB]

While that kid is good he had such a headstart in the music biz its even more irresponsible. I'm talking Doyle. Gales is just a phenomenal force if nature IMO