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should i be playing with a left or right handed guitar?
i write with my right hand, but i do everything with my left (hold a cricket bat, use scissors, pick up things, wear a watch on my right wrist, water the garden with my left hand, u know that kind of stuff). i was born left handed, but was made to write with my right hand, all thanx to my kindy teacher, which i really want to sue (but won’t cos thats just stupid), but since then, i’ve had ALOT of confusion, which i guess may not be the whole left/right thing, but something else. but i developed dyslexia really bad, that i cant do some stuff, like drive, and i have difficulty in other things. but anyways im learning the guitar, and i just bought a right hand one, cos apparently if im a lefty, i have more of an advantage or something, cos my left is stronger, and i’ve been practising for 6 months, and im still having some difficulty. i keep playing the wrong chords, my fingers slip, my right hand just doesn’t seem to be strumming properly. i’ve been playing piano for 15 years, and picked that up in a month (i was taught by the best though), now i play professionally, but i love the guitar & have this real genuine love for it, but it gets me so frustrated. so before i go out & either restring my guitar left hand style, or else buy another guitar incase the one i have can’t be restrung for left handed people, i need to know, do u think ill find it alot easier? i know all my chords & everything, but when playing them, my left fingers just cramp, and won’t sit where they’re suppose to, gosh piano is sooo much easier, at least all my fingers stay on their keys haha.
I am like the most of the people, right-handed. I learn it "right-handed" but using the left hand was very hard to me!
I strongly recommend you try everyday left hand for a month, if you fell more comfortable, be cool!
Also, you do not have to "buy" a new guitar, just invert the strings (using a piano it should be easy)
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The guitar is one of the hardest instruments to learn. Much harder than the piano to get to an intermediate level. I would persist with your guitar as your left hand being strong would be an advantage. Go into a shop if you like, and try out a left handed one to see what it feels like. I don’t think it would make much difference though. Practicing every day for at least half an hour is what will improve your playing. You might not see much progress for the first year or so, but eventually you will.
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It really just depends on what you comfortable with and how much you practice which by your question im sure is enough. if you know your scales then practice those a lot and i mean a lot. like go through each one around 5 or more times every day for like half an hour or more every day. That will help strengthen your left hand a lot and do alternating picking to strengthen your right hand.
And if your just not comfortable playing with your right hand then go the guitar store and try a left handed one. if you like that better and feel more comfortable with then im sure they’ll let you trade in your right handed guitar for money towards the left handed one.
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what feels – RIGHT to you?
i am right handed and play orr chord with my left hand strum with the right….
if you tap along to a song what hand do you use?
thats the one to strum with – the mosty rhythm?
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