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Location: New Hampsha | So I am teaching my daughter to play, and was struggling with reversing tabulature and hand positions and generally getting mentally tangled trying to convert righty to lefty.
She was making slow progress.
Then in a moment of mutual frustration, she asks if she can just try to play righty; I hand her a RH Parlor, and it's like falling off a log! She understands the righty tab no problem, and starts knocking off chords left and right (pun intended).
She learned more chords in that one night than in the previous two weeks. More fun, less confusion, more satisfaction, etc.
She's now playing righty! Glory be. Except now she likes my Koa Parlor.... :eek: |
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Location: SoCal | I'm glad that your daughter made the transition. I'm left handed, play right, and see no reason in the world for left handed players to play left handed guitars. There is no advantage to it at all. If they are started out on right handed guitars, they will learn right handed guitars.
Forgive me all you left handed players, but you've been sold a bill of goods and got screwed..... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | That is good to hear (read). I had a drummer-friend who was just one of those annoying people that can play anything he touches. Keyboards, Guitars, I think that he started with a trumpet in Elementary School
Anyway, he's lefty and plays guitar righty. The guitar he got was right-handed and that is what he learned on.
I have said before that logic tells me that my dominant hand should be on the fingerboard, but that ain't the way they designed the guitar.
Playing righty will give her access to a wider variety of cheaper guitars. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Now that's awesome! Glad ya tried that while she's just starting. Ya gotta love youth...
... now where did I put mine...  |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I'm right handed, and every once in a while I think to myself, I wonder if I could actually play if I tried a lefty. ;) |
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Location: Right now? | My ex was left handed but he played right handed, and he played VERY well.
Nice to read that you are doing something so 'quality' for your daughter ... in a few years she'll be kicking yo butt on that thang, buddy!
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Location: Pennsylvania | Mitzdawg, I so happy your daughter was able to make the switch and is having fun and didn't give up.
moody, no offense taken here. Lots of leftys play right. Lots of leftys play lefty. In my case, I didn't have the option to try righty because of an injury to my left middle finger, can't fret with that one. Besides, if I were a righty I wouldn't have my new toy on it's way which shipped today btw. :D |
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