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it looks ~okay~, but you can get a great starter squier fender for about the same price, well actually a little cheaper......

does this help
 
cubanorocker316 said:
it looks ~okay~, but you can get a great starter squier fender for about the same price, well actually a little cheaper......

does this help
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I agree with this... Also.. I'm lefty and I have a pawnshop bought Fender Squire which is technically righty but has been switched to lefty...

I just bought my first real left handed instrument on Friday.. An Ibanez bass.. And it's great!!! I finally get to try my hand at bass for a change!

Good luck bro...
 
IF it were me, I'd get some lessons and stick with righty. I'd be very suspect at the guitar you listed. If you do want to stay in the lefty realm, I would stay with a brand you know. There's a reason some guitars are so cheap. I personally am a lefty, but am extremely glad I stuck with righty guitar.

Rory
 
Here's the problem you may face Will. That guitar is not a great guitar by ANY stretch of the imagination. Here's the thing, if your just learning to play guitar, and you get something that doesn't stay in tune, or the action is too high...............you're going to get discouraged REAL fast. If your serious about wanting to play guitar, borrow or rent a decent one and play it for a week or 2 to see if it's something you enjoy. If you like it, go out to a pawn shop and get a decent used guitar. A name brand at the very least. My 2 cents! Good luck Will!
 
I've owned a Galveston 12-string bass and it was a nice novelty axe, but I think you'd do better with a Squire or an inexpensive Ibanez.
 
My friend plays lefty guitar and wanted to get an electric 12 string. Guess what his choices were? That's right, next to none. So he placed an order with Danelectro but it will take them a year (They're maing a bunch of them). If you can, try to learn righty. Or you can restring a righty backwards like Jimi.
 
bigwillz24 said:
I've never really played guitar I have two of them but they are right handed. I tried holding them upside down and it just felt wierd. So I'm looking at this lefty guitar...
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You're 29 years old, so you'll probably never be a great guitarist. So learn to play right handed - you can be good with practice, and even though picking will be more difficult to learn, chording, barring, note runs, hammering on and pulling off will be easier. And you'll have a choice of many more guitars to buy, and to play when you visit and don't have your own axe.

From a lefty who plays righty (and sucks :D)
 
A very good friend of mine is a great left handed guitar player,but he plays right handed guitars.

He just plays upside down! :cool:

While not common,there are a few big time guitar players who do this.Dick Dale comes to mind first,and I believe Albert King.

I wouldn't touch the guitar you listed.If you're willing to spend that much,have a luthier set up one of your righties to play leftie.

And you really,really,really don't want a guitar with a whammy bar(especially a cheap one),you need a fixed bridge to start out with.

I'm tellin' ya,upside down. ;)
 
I'd recommend playing the traditional right-handed way. For one, your choices will often be really limited in terms of lefty guitars to buy. Also, for the majority of guitar styles your fret hand will be working a lot harder than your picking hand (the exceptions being complex metal palm muting patterns or quick economy picking things). In fact, I've often wondered why my quick, powerful right hand has been relegated to this stupid pick when it could be doing so much more on the fretboard... Eric Sardinas is a great left-handed guitar player who plays right-handed.
 
I've often wondered this myself

seanr said:
I'd recommend playing the traditional right-handed way. For one, your choices will often be really limited in terms of lefty guitars to buy. Also, for the majority of guitar styles your fret hand will be working a lot harder than your picking hand (the exceptions being complex metal palm muting patterns or quick economy picking things). In fact, I've often wondered why my quick, powerful right hand has been relegated to this stupid pick when it could be doing so much more on the fretboard... Eric Sardinas is a great left-handed guitar player who plays right-handed.
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when it seems like the hand that requires more dexterity is the fretting hand, why do we fret with our non-dominant hand? It always seemed to me like we were ALL playing backwards. Of course I do, because that's the way I was taught. It just never made any sense to me.

Anyway, I don't know if Squire does lefties, but if they do, that's what I would recommend.

But what kind of music do you want to play? Who are your favorite bands/guitarists?
 
If ya try and play 'em left handed long enough, it might start to feel right at some point.. Some one mentioned Albert King.. And of course theirs Hendrix.. Both played left handed in a right handed world.. I've seen several folks that play "upside-down".. Honestly, it almost looks easier as far as chords go... Trying to do a screaming solo lead high on the neck, might be a bit of a pain.. But I'll bet you could do some thumping bottom end leads high on the neck, that oterh folks would be stretching for..
 
Crash © said:
If ya try and play 'em left handed long enough, it might start to feel right at some point.. Some one mentioned Albert King.. And of course theirs Hendrix.. Both played left handed in a right handed world.. I've seen several folks that play "upside-down".. Honestly, it almost looks easier as far as chords go... Trying to do a screaming solo lead high on the neck, might be a bit of a pain.. But I'll bet you could do some thumping bottom end leads high on the neck, that oterh folks would be stretching for..
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All true! However, anything is possible with practice....
 
woooooooooooooooo

Rondo music does rule for the knock off. IMHO, I would buy a japanese knock off for $200 off ebay (whatever lawsuit guitar I could find that interested me, some brands include Greco, Tokai, Burny, National, Aria, kalamazoo or just an old Harmony, Teisco or Kingston) becuase invariably you'll have something that has a story, is high quality and you won't hate when it won't hold tune for 5 minutes. The Galveston is another story however.
Look at these, they're right handed but a beauty and dirt cheap http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...r=1&from=R8&satitle=lawsuit+guitar&category0=
http://instruments.search.ebay.com/...fZC12QQfromZR40QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ118978
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOSRITE-1960s-J...yZ119094QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Teisco-Del-Rey-...92249788QQcategoryZ119094QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Auditio...91471751QQcategoryZ119094QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vinatage-NATION...92861735QQcategoryZ119094QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Aria-Les-Paul-C...7391100747QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Silvert...7390501731QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Hope that helped. Buy a righty, preferably a double cutaway and get a left handed nut and move the strap lock. You'll be doing windmills standing on your couch in no time.
cheers,
scott
 
hungovermorning said:
whatever lawsuit guitar I could find that interested me
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I have a 1978 left handed (but reverse pickgaurded) Takamine.... It's a Martin lawsuit guitar and I love it to death...
 
I'm a lefty but when I first started playing, all we had was a righty squire strat. I (and my parents lol) decided that seeing as I didn't know how to play yet anyway that it would be easier just to learn to play right handed.

Its certainly helped down the line that I made that decision, knowing I don't have to worry about searching high and low for a particularly lefty guitar, or the extra cost.
 
peritus said:
So much for right brain/left brain... ;)
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Thankfully I only have to use my hands. I don't think my guitar would have such a nice sound if I was hitting the strings with my brain. I could imagine that might give me a migrane. Not to mention making a hell of a mess.

Anyway..what are you talking about? I only have 1 brain...and its in the middle :p
 
crazydoc said:
You're 29 years old, so you'll probably never be a great guitarist...
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What a discouraging thing to say! He could have 40+ years of guitar playing in front of him. He could get quite good in a few years of practice, and some folks take to it amazingly fast.
 
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