left handed guitarists
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 3:06 pm
I have wondered how many of you Chet pickers play a right handed guitar (left hand on frets) but are actually left handed? My father was left handed and played a left handed guitar (I guess that's what you'd call it). So I started playing it and begin learning chords in that configuration. Mind you I'm left handed in a lot of things and my left hand is my strongest hand. When my friend across the street got a Sears Silvertone solid body guitar and amp, I wanted to play it really bad. Surf guitar was the big thing in those days out on the west coast. By that time I had my own guitar that my parents gave me and I switched the strings to start learning guitar like a right handed person in order to play my friend's electric guitar. I've never regretted it. I feel like it made me better as a guitarist because my strongest hand was now holding down chords and notes. Does anybody else feel this way? For all I know maybe the picking hand needs to be the most coordinated and strongest for the best guitar playing advantage.