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Post When left is right.
on: August 4, 2012, 18:12
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I'm left-handed, yet learned to play right. I have some opinions on this, but am curious to know how others feel about the left-right issue.
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Post Re: When left is right.
on: August 4, 2012, 21:10
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I'm a righty. When I first picked up a guitar, the fingers were so inept I might as well have taught them lefty. My college roomie was a lefty who played guitar righty but played air guitar lefty -- I thought that was hilarious, but I wonder if there is something more to it.

I've always thought it's pretty arbitrary, though. Notice the lack of left-handed pianos.
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Post Re: When left is right.
on: August 4, 2012, 21:21
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I'm curious to know if you do anything else right-handed. Some people are not ambidextrous, but they do different tasks with different hands. My brother catches a baseball lefty but steps up to the plate righty. I say whatever feels natural. If you switch to righty just cause that's what most teachers and material is, that's too bad. If you do it cause it feels right, great!
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Post Re: When left is right.
on: August 5, 2012, 10:24
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Pardon the self-promo, but did you see this post I did recently on left/right-handedness?

Are Your Sinister — or Dextrous?
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Post Re: When left is right.
on: August 5, 2012, 11:04
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Well, I play golf right-handed because that's how I was taught, but I throw and bat left (I'm hardly the athlete that sentence implies). My theory is a lefty has an advantage learning guitar right-handed because their dominant (left) hand will be stronger and more dextrous than a right-hander and might have an easier time holding down strings and doing things like forming that impossible C chord for the first time. Or I could just be rationalizing the fact that the first guitar I got was right-handed and I really didn't know there could be any difference!
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