Same for me, but in the 90s. I think it would always be hard for a teenager to cough up the extra cash for a lefty versus a righty. I was impatient to get going with it, and I had a position in a band already lined up, so I pulled the trigger on a righty guitar. No regrets.
I am right handed and I taught myself on a lefty guitar...BECASUE I am my right hand is dominate. If I would have played righty, it would have taken me a very long time to catch up.
Until I watched your videos I always questioned whether I should’ve tried to play left-handed guitars as I am a left-handed person. I thank you very much for that because now it change the confidence of my guitar playing. Now I see my left-handed fingering as an advantage. Great research. Great video. Thanks!!
I am a lefty that plays right handed. I always thought that it made more sense to have your dominant hand as the one doing all the fretwork, because it feels more natural. I tried to learn left handed and it threw me off.
Right handed in everything except playing the guitar! Just felt weird for me first time I picked up my dad’s right handed guitar when I was 5. I taught myself to play upside down to combat the lack of LH guitars back in the day. There’s certainly more options today but I do object the additional £’s added or the exclusion of certain hardware elements. Still, what don’t kill ya makes ya stronger and I really can’t complain now owning 19 LH guitars.
I am a left handed person, and I tried playing a right handed guitar when I started, and it felt extremely uncomfortable and unnatural, however when I picked up my first left handed guitar, it felt much more natural and made playing a lot easier. I think it just comes down to what feels right in the end
Kiko said in a video that guitar is one of the only instruments that caters to lefties. You dont see a left handed violin or cello for example, and i guess as a complete beginner itll be equally as uncomfortable and foreign regardless of if you're right or left handed
I can confirm this to be very true . The nice thing of being left handed playing regular guitars is you don’t miss out on guitars you want. What is harder for me though is downpicking
im 60 yr old lefty that plays righty. My Uncle also was the same. He would let me hold his guitar. i always wanted to strum with my left hand. He basically made me to hold the guitar like a righty (I was too little at the time to understand about having to swap the strings around). I just ended up learning that way. didnt know there were that many of us. been playing 45 years this year (rock/metal/thrash).
I am a right handed person. After decades of playing guitar right handed way, with left hand on guitar neck, I realized I am unable to play (among many other things) Jimi's popular and simple "lick" with index and middle finger (hammer on-pull of) he often combines with tremolo. I am just unable to get that speed with middle finger with my left hand. Than one day I tried to do that with right hand, as "left handed" player. Without minute of practice EVER I did it right away. It wasn't even hard to do. I had that all the time in my right hand without any practice and efort. True is that it is not complicated motion. I don't know could that be answer to question, but certainly is an argument to "we all play wrong way all this time" side. I would like to hear if anyone else had same, or similar expiriences? Are other virtuoso players, who play right handed way, ambidextrous, if they are not left handed? Could you popular you tubers somehow get information on top 100 players, to tell us are they right handed, left handed or ambidextrous? Or to ask someone who will ask them? That would be interesting to hear.
I totally regret not forcing myself to learn righthanded when I started over 30 years ago. It sucks not being able to try other guitars..or walk into a guitar shop and try what they have on the wall. Just about every time I buy a guitar, it is a gamble. Will I like it..or will I hate it?
Lefty that plays right here. Actually heard you mention that you were as well and was so impressed with your playin I had to subscribe. Didn’t know Clapton was left handed . A lot of these guys are unique players and songwriters. Also Paul Simon, David Bowie and David Byrne are lefty’s that play right. I finger pick electric and acoustic a bit like Mark Knopfler . Cheers!
I'm right-handed and have often thought that the stuff that requires most dexterity is what my left hand has to do on the fretboard. If I want to remember what it was like when I first picked up a guitar and tried to play something, I just have to flip the guitar over the other way.
I’m a lefty really just learning. I’ve tried and tried over the years get frustrated and sit it down then get an itch again and pick it back up (on right handed guitars) I learn fretting pretty easy, it’s the picking that I struggle with on my right hand and what always causes the most frustration. I’ve often wondered if it would be more beneficial to get a left handed guitar and try. My only issue now is I’ve gotten pretty bad dupuytrens contracture in my right hand so looks like attempting left handed guitar is out the question.
I'm a lefty who plays right handed. My theory was that for fretboard work I thought my dexterity in my left hand would make things a bit easier to get on top of and it just felt correct playing that way. That said, working on my right hand strumming technique took a lot more work. Anyway, that's my two cents.
My dad is left-handed and he has a right-handed acoustic and he plays it fine. And my mom tried to play my guitar once and she said she can’t do it right-handed, she had to do it left-handed
This will throw you. I'm right handed. I play left handed. Reason being I have a wrist rotation problem and can only hold a guitar left handed so I learnt to play and have been doing so for 46 years and teaching for 30 years. The disadvantage is that I can't get faster at tremolo picking and it limits my finger style. That said fretting has always been a strength. I've been told I'm kind of widdly widdly in my solos and although nothing like Gary Moore (not my influence) his reverse playing is kind of similar to my approach. Hammers and pull offs with less emphasis on picking strings. That's an interesting one. I don't think you can play the wrong way round. At least not on guitar. The main target is to create your own voice and this is possible either way around. There you go :)
I was born left handed, but i was forced to use my right hand to write as a kid. So now i write and play right guitar handed(which i'm glad i did because there isn't as many left handed guitars). Here's the kicker tho, although i write with my right hand, throw with my left hand, only can draw with my left and also eat with my left hand.
I'm glad I'm left handed but play right handed (thanks to a guitar teacher more than 50 years ago.) In my mind, the fretting hand needs to be the most versatile and dominant. Truth be told, if you were left with only had one hand to play guitar .. (I think) you'd want it to be your favored one.
I am left handed and I wish I had learned right handed,I have 9 guitars and they are all left-handed. When I started playing there were very few guitars I could play and they were expensive...now I can find them everywhere reasonably priced.
Im left handed, my guitar teacher tried to get me to play right handed. I couldnt do it. I was falling behind so badly that he even suggested that perhaps guitar wasnt the instrument for me. I told him no, I need to play left handed. He conceded, then was later surprised how quickly I was picking things up. "Handedness" certainly isnt a black and white thing either: I write and play guitar left, but i play sports right. My brother was exactly opposite: wrote right, but hockey, baseball, golf, etc... all left. It is what it is. For some of us, 'just doing it the other way' isnt an option.
I'm a lefty playin right handed because in the beginning at home there only was a right hand guitar available. I'm glad that I got used to it immediately. I had not to buy more expensive lefty guitars and can play EVERY guitar. By the way, there is no lefty piano, isn't it? Anyway, I think that my bending is an advantage but my left hand strength forced me to play double locking guitars because they don't get out of tune that easily while playing. Ok, EddieVH had to with that , too. 😅 Disadvantage: Fast picking is harder for me. My right hand is weaker...
Nick Johnston is a lefty that plays guitar right handed. The fact that an individual doesn't play an instrument that goes in line with their dominant hand, doesn't make them wrong. In fact, when I saw Nick during a clinic in 2016, I asked him personally if there were any benefits to playing right handed despite whilst his dominant hand being the left, and he told me for lack of a better word, that his dominant hand, was the one on the neck, and it made fretting chords, or playing leads easier, but, his picking technique was weaker as dexterity is determined by the picking hand. Point is, it's not wrong to play right, despite being left handed, and vice versa.
I know he is, that's why I mentioned him in the video. Nick and I are the same and we have discussed it at length and came to the same conclusion. The dominant hand being the fretting is highly beneficial in early stages. Helps some learn lead techniques quicker. P.S. I didn't say it was wrong either.
I'm a lefty that plays a lefty strat, I've tried to play right handed and it feels so awkward, sadly guitars are a problem, less variety and more expensive.
Also a lefty here that plays right-handed guitars. It's always felt natural personally, and trying to play lefty guitars is awful for me. It feels 100% wrong for my body.
I'm left handed and play left handed, I do really like being and playing left handed, but I really regret not playing right handed, it makes you feel unwanted by guitar communities and guitar companies especially
I'm left handed and I play right handed. I think righties playing rightie have better right hand technique. My right hand technique is sorely lacking, especially trying to speed pick. Can't do it.
I was told it's easier for a left handed person to play a righty guitar than the other way around. I'm right handed and I don't think I could play left handed. Even holding a left handed guitar was giving me divide by zero vibes. 😲
For me personally, I think being left handed would be easier. My right hand has more precision and speed than my left, which means that although I am a righty, left handed guitar seems like it would be easier
YES I think the theory that we should strum with the same hand as our writing hand is questionable. I AM A RIGHTY and it feels a thousand time better to hold the guitar the left hand way.
@@CameronCooper, that’s cool, I get it. If you get a chance read up on some of the lit. ‘Music Therapy is a great place to start. Thanks again for what you do.✌️
Wow you blew me away with this topic we knew there’s something to be said of left handed people. I’m not tooting my own horn I’m NOT the kind that could learn on a right hand guitar I’m a true diehard lefty. An those of us know what that feels like i mean why hit him with a right when i can end the fight with a left. All jokes aside the Bible talks about left handed men look up Judges 3:15 GOD CHOSE A LEFT HAND MAN SO WHY mention that right ? Well it’s because Lefties have good learning skills that what I’m thinking . Now about myself I’m draw to music and love to write melodies & progressions it’s like I’m drawn to a beautiful chord and want to make music with it manipulate it and make a song solo over it and when I stop playing a day or two the next time I play or start to write my best music comes out and I make improvements. That all I can say that I noticed about myself as a lefty. Hopefully someone else can relate. Thanks for the video young man.
If all those great left handed guitar players would have played left handed then maybe as a left handed player I would have a wider selection of left handed Charvels!!!!.
I apologize, I just saw the video title and saw Cobain's picture. I'm watching your video now. I did not know this many guitarists are left-handed and play right handed. @@CameronCooper
You could make the argument that Kurt was a good guitarist. Was his technique spectacular? No, of course not. Did he write a whole bunch of catchy riffs that people are still loving 30+ years later, yes. He also had a noticeable signature style and tone. If they dug a secret Nirvana song out of a vault somewhere you’d know within seconds it was him playing without being told beforehand. I suppose it all depends on what is being assessed when the question is asked, which will be different for everyone.
Yeah I've seen his videos and well aware he's ambidexterous. Most left handed people tend to be. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lcy18Si74vw.htmlsi=Mv4omKaTqxcF__qx
