Moving from Right to Left...

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RezN8 said:
Many guitarists think that way and I really have to disagree - the strumming hand is actually much more important IMHO. In most situations, you're merely fretting a chord, while the strumming hand is doing all the work.

Depends on the style. There is much fingerpicking and classical where the fretting hand is at least as tricky as the picking hand. You will have a repeated picking pattern, your picking hand goes on autopilot, and your fretting hand has to do all the thinking.
 
Yes sir.

Boingoman, yup- I totally agree it depends on the style. But I sat here thinking about it for a while and I really feel a need to drive the point home.

SO many players I know overlook the strumming or picking hand, and their playing suffers for it. That's where a good portion of your tone comes from as well as where you lock down the tempo.

Also, many lead guitarist spend so much time working on solos and speed along the frets and completely neglect their rhythm abilities.
 
RezN8 said:
Sorry dude, it's already been done. I remember seeing some guitar "god" in the 80s with one -- I forget who it was.

Michael Angelo was the guy. Steve Vai also had a triple neck with one neck to the other side.

I'm a lefty playing righty, and TO ME it feels natural, and as RezN8 said, it's much easier to pick up and play another person's guitar, or just try one out in the store. The only other thing I do righty is throw a Frisbee. Baseball, football, tennis, golf = lefty....go figure ;)
 
I'm a lefty who has always played left-handed. I tried to do it right handed because the only guitars around for me to play were my dad's, and he's a righty. I just never felt comfortable doing it right.

Yeah, the selection is narrower, and lefty guitars cost more, but for me, it's worth it. If you are doing well playing right handed, do it. One of my friends was a lefty who played right handed. He's pretty damn good, too. You can flip the strings around on an acoustic and try it out (if you like it better, then switch the nut and the bridge).
 
Aaron Cheney said:
I totally agree w/ RezN8.

I would also add that if you switch lefty you are commiting to a lifetime of:

smaller selection
higher prices

Trust me...

No seriously.... trust me.

A

i was going to point the selection/higher prices thing out, but i'm normally pretty negative on this site, so i decided to try to be positive and not worry about that.

it is a valid point though.
 
Stick with playing righty.

There's way more great axes to play.
 
dirtythermos said:
I'm right handed, and I keep rhythm with the right side of my body. That goes for drums/percussion and guitar. It just feels natural, even though the more precise fingering is done by my off hand.

I can keep rhythm with my left hand, but it takes a lot more effort and concentration.

That's interesting, like when I play the drums I sometimes like to play the hi-hat with my left hand and with time it's better that way. I don't have a clue which hand to use for what I guess since I rythm with my right hand strumming too.
 
andyhix said:
All that being said, I've long had this dream of learning at least a little bit lefty, and building a custom double neck axe, escept instead of an over-under, it would have a neck that sticks out on each side. If any of you steal my idea on this, you'd better build me one too.

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but today I saw this.
 
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