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Anyone else play guitar lefty?

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little_ey
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I know you can buy left handed guitars, but I'm doing this the goofy way and just flip the thing over to play.  i find it's easier if you have little hands like I do.

Just wondering if anyone else has learned to play this way?


Feb 1 2009 12:18PM
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TZP
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i play on a left-handed guitar. at first i learned a bit on an upside down righty, but in the long run it'll just disadvantage you
Feb 1 2009 12:39PM
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dwoods5
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Hendrix learned to play that way.
Feb 1 2009 12:43PM
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anxju
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no. absolutely no one else in this world plays guitar lefty. you are the only person to do so

do you use the lefty flip in guitar hero? cause if you do the wammy bar gets in the way, sucker!
Feb 1 2009 1:15PM
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freezed
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It seems like left-handed people could still play guitar "righty"...I mean, you'd be doing all the fretting with your left hand. It seems like if that's how you started out playing, it would work out just fine.

Feb 1 2009 4:53PM
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lineordie
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i dunno if youre talking about acoustic or electric, but i play a lefty electric strung right, cause i like the way it feels, i say keep goin the way youre goin, its not like its messing with your fret or rhythm hand. and it looks bangin on stage.
Feb 1 2009 6:18PM
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Thenowhereman42
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I am a lefty but learned to play righty because when I went to buy my first guitar the guy said "look around this entire store (100's of guitars), three of these are lefty, and they're more expensive".  Also you can't play random guitars you find.

However, learning to play Jimi Hendrix style is dope.  You don't limit yourself at all that way.  If I had to do it all over again I might learn that way.  But I've tried and its just too hard.

Also, random trivia, Stevie Ray Vaughan idolized Jimi Hendrix so much he had the neck on his guitar changed to make it look like he was playing it upside down.  I think his signiture guitar might be like that, so if you bought it to play upside down it would look normal.
Feb 1 2009 6:49PM
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idontactuallyski
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i play guitar lefty and i would highly recommend a left handed guitar
Feb 3 2009 7:34PM
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wiglaf
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They "could" learn that way but it doesn't make any sense. Most of the time your strumming hand is your dominate hand. This hand is naturally better at keeping a rhythm. I feel like if you learned flip flopped it would be twice as awkward and you might not be able to excel as quickly.
Feb 3 2009 9:45PM
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freezed
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i was thinking the fretting hand would be more important than the strumming hand.
Feb 3 2009 10:07PM
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[~_~]
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haha I was thinking the opposite. fretting is dynamically sensitive and all, but not as much as the strumming. I mean the strumming is essentially what PLAYS the music, ya know?
Feb 3 2009 10:15PM
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Aaaron.
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not if you're michael angelo-batio
or andy mckee.
Feb 3 2009 11:02PM
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[~_~]
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I was thinking about electric guitar, but good point. That dude's taps is nasty.
Feb 4 2009 2:07AM
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Arabian.
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SRV did not "have the neck changed to look like he was playing upside down." He just bolted on a lefty neck. Fenders are not set neck usually. Also, SRV played lefty's upside down like a jackass to emulate Hendrix SOMETIMES. His main guitars were all right-handed though.

Go ahead and buy a right handed guitar, just re-string it and file down the high e string notch in the nut at the top to accomodate the larger E string.

Feb 4 2009 2:58AM
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~auddie~
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yup I started out this way, the whole flipped deal, it was fine for the first bit, but like somebody else mentioned, picking up random guitars, id get hella confused. That and technique-wise, it doesn't work as well for me.
Feb 4 2009 4:11AM
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feihlination
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you have to answer the creators question, never forget,

and yeah, i do not, i dont play guitar at all

Feb 4 2009 7:00AM
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gstoneskier
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hendrix
Feb 4 2009 9:03AM
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Casey
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probly could, when i was a beginner i was about as good at left as i was right, but right always felt weird, so when I got my own guitar i got a left. Most store people will try to convince you to learn right, im just not interested in starting over.

Feb 4 2009 12:56PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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Dick Dale played guitar this way.

Dick Dale = the king of surf guitar

Feb 4 2009 1:03PM
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Commonwealth
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If I knew how to play guitar, I prolly would. I strum on my friends' guitars sometimes, and it feels more comfortable if I flip it.
Feb 4 2009 1:11PM
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anomericas
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I'm pretty sure hendrix also flipped the strings so that they were still low E A D G B high E from top to bottom. Learning with inverted strings is just silly.
Feb 4 2009 1:20PM
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