kipstryker
Inspired
Just reading the my first guitar thread and how one guy didn't Start to learn as the teacher had no left hookers and another lefty learnt right handed.
I'm left handed but play right as the shop my dad took me to when I got my first guitar aged around 13 or 14 had no left handers. The salesman said the left hand does all the work so I went with it and learnt right handed.
30 years on I don't regret that particularly but was thinking how different my journey would have been if they had had a lefty in stock that day.
Would I have been a better or different player. I've always had to work hard on my picking and funky type rhythms. On the other hand I always found legato and vibrato very natural.
Any of you guys the same as me how do you think you may have benefited or struggled?
Would you swap if you went back in time now and had the option?
Any righty boys who play lefty even?
And how do the natural right handers feel about effectively being forced into playing left as a kid and whether or not you would have stuck with it?
I'm left handed but play right as the shop my dad took me to when I got my first guitar aged around 13 or 14 had no left handers. The salesman said the left hand does all the work so I went with it and learnt right handed.
30 years on I don't regret that particularly but was thinking how different my journey would have been if they had had a lefty in stock that day.
Would I have been a better or different player. I've always had to work hard on my picking and funky type rhythms. On the other hand I always found legato and vibrato very natural.
Any of you guys the same as me how do you think you may have benefited or struggled?
Would you swap if you went back in time now and had the option?
Any righty boys who play lefty even?
And how do the natural right handers feel about effectively being forced into playing left as a kid and whether or not you would have stuck with it?