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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:45 AM

i'm a natural lefty.
but i learnt to play right handed, easier to fret the guitar.
then slowly just worked on the right hand picking techniques.

It can be done, I am right handed but when I first held a guitar in my hands, I was holding it the left handed way and it felt natural back then. Took me a while to adjust to the proper way of playing.

I also know a friend who is left handed but play right handed.

I guess it is just a matter of practice.

It's always recommended for lefties to try out right-hand guitars in the right-handed way. It takes time to get used to, I guess, but it's possible.

However, if your left hand is really not comfortable in gripping the neck & fretting the chords, stick to left-handed guitars.

Stick to left handed guitar and be doomed with the limited selection of guitars and also the extra price you have to pay.

but then that would also mean none of your irritating friends can come borrow or play around on your baby

If you're not comfortable, why the hell force it???

Paul McCartney, Kurt Cobain, Tony Iommi all did ok.

was hendrix left too? =P

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:45 AM

u're from kuching too?

well you could always ask lee's music.

you could try ordering in from les paul (mr kho) too but i doubt theyll bring in lower end ones. their prices for ordering in can sometimes be cheaper than kl and quite close to singapore. i wouldnt recommend the ones in the shop coz theyre in bad shape.

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:46 AM

which church do you go to?

i dont think theres that much choices too in kl

stick to left hand... we all know lefties are way cooler
na just joking..... get a "normal" guitar and start there...
like what noisetrigger said, once your go on the path of the devil you're doomed for life, limited choices plus 20% mark up. god i love the commercial world

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 02:13 AM

goin out of topic for a lil while

who was that kid who was playing drums during carry the call? seems to be quite a solid player for that age.

How bout right handed playing left handed instruments? i nearly did that when i saw an awesome left handed ibanez s540 in a pwn shop for a fraction of its value . nearly took it home start to learn playing it left handed , or do it the right handed hendrix style.

It's quite hard to find shops selling left-handed guitars. Well, you can always ask them to order one for you but you can't go there and then and try out the guitar. You have to wait till the shops gets the guitar first. But when you order that guitar, you have to buy it already ... normally they will ask you for a desposit fee first before ordering that guitar.

I have a friend who is a left-handed guitar player. He ordered a left-handed American Stratocaster® guitar. But before he got the chance to play the guitar, he was playing with a right-handed guitar. So now, he can play both left and right hand guitars.

Besides, its very rare to see a left-handed guitarist ...... so that makes you (left-hand guitarist) special

This post has been edited by TheWhacker: May 12 2006, 09:21 AM

Im a left-handed too dude ...I think playin left -handed is the best for me as I feel that im playing naturally...anyway where do u live in kuching..

i better not mention where...
later kena rompak...

haha

hi there i'm also leffy but kinda feeling f*ckup when people ask to buy
right handed where naturally i'm more into lefty also till now my life go more
troublesome when using right handed stuff ..... its hard to live in right handed world ........dun feel ashame if u're lefty or southpaw ......many lefty are successfull and creative u know eg Jimi hendrix, Paul Mccartney,Bill Gates(richest people in the world) ,Bill Clinton(US President) ,George Bush,Dani From Cradle Of Filth(yeah) etc etc

The population of lefty are 12% only in the world

also to all lefty please dun become evil and bad cuz statitically lefty prone to do bad thing eg of famous people people.... Jack the ripper..... Osama ...etc etc

This post has been edited by Shane Satanic: May 14 2006, 02:00 AM

i think your nick shows that you're on the right track.

anyway, i'm ambidextral. but playing a left handed guitar is still greek to me. i can't do it, it feels unnatural.

I'm a lefty who learnt how to play right-handed guitar as well. Once you learn, it's natural, no big deal!

In some ways, you'll have an advantage (holding and fingering is easier) and then others maybe not (finger-picking was a struggle to begin, playing arpeggios a little tricky). But it's second nature after a while.

You know, I still want to learn how to play left handed guitar, just to be ambidextrous.

we're all biased in someways....
im was a righty for a 6 years and left till now....
for guitar where both hands are qually important... you can take up left hand or right hand without any problem....
although some ppl say that its better if your fretting hand is your dominant one

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:46 AM

Yesterday I'd try to play right handed but cannot do shred like left liau
feel awkward..... kinda holding a dead instrument

i'll try it another time




i see 3vil in u heheh

This post has been edited by Shane Satanic: May 17 2006, 02:01 AM

A Lefty here ..

fellow southpaw here as well.

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:47 AM

cool. which squeir did u get? was it from lees?

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:47 AM

A 51?????? How much was it? Was it a Violin Sunburst finish or the blonde finish???

Pics would be much aprreciated!!!!

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:48 AM

Eh eh... I wanna see pic! You can upload it at Photobucket.

I kinda love the Squier 51 + blonde finish, what a lovely guitar!

first time noe that osama is a southpaw

the first time you pick up a guitar is how you should play it.

I am a righty, but leftys are super cool. I love watching leftys playing righty guitars. Looks dem outstanding..... Respect to all leftys who dun give a crap about learning right hand just to buy good guitars. If they see a good guitar, they buy it and restring it and play it. Dem well too...

*EDIT* Same way if i find a good lefty guitar that sounds brilliant, i would buy it and play it right hand...i dont care.

This post has been edited by Bassix: Jun 18 2006, 04:37 AM

If it's a double-cutway guitar, yeah no problem... however if it's a single-cutway, then it's kinda stupid not to go for the righty version.

i dont believe so... Because the neck shape is symmetrical. And if you apply a trick that i learned from steve bailey (6 string bassist) you can play up to the end of the fretboard even without a cutaway (classical guitar applies this technique i think...)

It's using the thumb to fret strings. That way, the whole wrist is brought in a position that is kind of in front of the neck and out of the way. So the body wood doesnt get in the way...hard to explain, but i think you can find many pictures from cello and contrabass players...Let's just call it a different technique

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:48 AM

dun think so. but i can try imageshack also

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:48 AM

some gallery to add some colors to the texts......


my electric guitar....ah yea, it's LEFTY
love it for every moment.....heh

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:49 AM

me made some problems at Jamtank? don't know where you got your story, but your remark tickled my funny bone right there.

p.s. it was the others who made a big 'hoo hah' o'er there, i was totally not involved in it....ultimately, they realised what they did was wrong, and apologised in the end....hope you're gettin' the right scoop here this time, jeremiah

I had to say this...
WANG LEE HOM is Left Handed!!!

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:50 AM

i'm also left-handed. I play piano..left hand will automatically play more loudly than right hand...have to balance it always~~

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:50 AM

still up for sale if there's anyone interested...though the price reflects a custom made since it's well....a custom-made....but a cheap custom made price for a good custom made that is

anyways...for those left handed guitarists out there, what left handed guitars you own?


for me, it's just this les paul (electric guitar) as depicted above, and a santa cruz acoustic guitar.

i plan to get another one....this time around, it's gonna be ibanez hopefully.

i got an ibanez RG470L fitted with the air norton/blue velvet/tone zone pups

where did you buy your guitar?

Auckland I guess... All pickups soldered by himself.

i got my gat from bentley...
actually i wanted to get the rg320fm but there wasnt one there so i had to go with this one... could have probably gotten a better amp with the extra paid for the guitar

i'm a lefty who plays right handed drums
but now going for left handed drums just by changing the position of the drumset. sometimes it's hard to control drum rolls as i tend to use my left as the initial beat.

okay, i hope this' not considered spam....


anyone selling off their lefty electric guitars...cos' i'm lookin' for one...gracias.....would prefer ibanez or schecter models though i would consider the others; that includes project guitars......

wouldn't mind if a project guitar could be built, according to my humble specs.....


gracias mucho

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This post has been edited by JeremiahRais: Jul 15 2016, 01:51 AM

it's good to be young.....
cant' remember how it feels like when i was your age.......heh

Hmm... I'm righthanded, but recently I started looking into left hand stuff...

I'm a pianist... and I found a lot of ONE-hand piano music, for the left hand only.. and it's pretty amazing stuff..

One I especially enjoy listening to/playing - Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand. Amazing stuff...

I don't think being lefthanded should stop anyone from being a musician. My previous piano teacher was lefthanded and he was really good...

Am I and evo the only left handed guitarists in this entire low yat net forum?


geez..

This post has been edited by ninelives1980: Aug 23 2006, 03:56 PM

thought you already had that GIM LP...

anyway, i'm left handed but play right handed.
i try playing left handed once in awhile, but had so much trouble fretting so wasnt worth it

Left? Right? By the way, by using left hands to play is normal, as long as you have interest in music....

thought i wanted a 7 string left handed - built the cheap way
but alas - wish i could build it myself

yes he was..

and for th eabout topic..if lefty use lefty or not..

play lefty....why? because i dunno but for me the moment i turn my right guitar upside down and restrung so that the 6th string is closes...it was juz like wow....this feels natural...so i advice to u try both ways when u wanna go buy....see which u like more... me preferring the lefty way..though it's gonna be expensive... but worth is..

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