In this episode we discuss handedness and see if I can play Back In Black left-handed.
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29 Comments
Welcome to us leftys’ world
when I started playing guitar, I played on a right handed guitar strung right handed… I think it took me a couple weeks to be able to play tabs from guitar world magazine, and after maybe another week or two I could play chords, but the structure was backwards. When I was in college a friend of mine gave me his old left handed Alvarez acoustic and after probably a couple of days I had learned to play all the chords the way they were supposed to be played, at least the ones I already knew, so I was able to learn stairway to heaven and tears from heaven and a few other songs I really loved listening to. I don't consider myself any kind of musical genius or anything like that, but I guess there was the drive to learn it and boy did it come quickly
it’s weird. i’m a cross dominant lefty. i naturally have always played guitar right handed because it felt more comfortable and natural to fret with my left hand. because of being semi ambidextrous, being able to write with both of my hands, picking never was an issue because it felt fine. when i play i never ever look at my picking hand because i just naturally know where every string is. i mainly do everything lefty but i can do most things righty. the only thing i do fully righty is do anything in basketball. i played baseball my whole life and i never even tried to switch hit until i was 17. i never was good enough with it where i’d use it in game. but is there anyone else like that or am i special?
I'm left handed, but I play guitar right handed. This is because when i was learning, right handed guitars were the only kind of guitars I had access to and the teachers I had weren't about to show me how to play the different chords upside down. Before I learned to play though, if I played 'air guitar' I would naturally pretend to play guitar left handed with the left hand holding the pretend-pick and the right hand stretched out, pretended to fret.
30+ years later and I'm now a pretty decent guitar player. But I do wonder if I'd be better – or even how I'd play different, if at all – if, when I learned to play, I learned to play left handed like what came naturally.
I do it everyday
As a lefty, this video is my evidence for all those who still say, “Why don’t you just learn right handed”.
Dylan(sp?) is one lucky kid to have a father like Rick Beato.
That was hilarious. 😂😂
For some reason Im comfortable playing righty as a lefty on guitar
Nothing more pointless than trying to play left handed hahah, good video though!
Im a lefty from Alabama you not alone
Teaching someone who of the opposite hand is challenging but when I see a right hander play it's simple like a mirror.
You think too much, and this topic isn't your dept.
I think the lesson is learn whatever way you hold it naturally, I mean I a guitarist like yourself can’t get a tune out of a lefty what chance has a left handed beginner got of learning right handed 😂 I’m a lefty who was told to learn right handed but I couldn’t even hold my mates guitar, I explained to him it’s like I’m holding it with someone else’s hands 😂
Write right-handed, throw left-handed, play guitar left-handed, and drum on a right-handed kit open-handed.
I think you have got no idea what to do to stay on You Tube !👎👎
I'm one of those completely left-handed people. I tried for 4 years playing righty guitar because everyone kept telling me how much easier fretting would be but I just can't keep a rythm.
My brother is bisexual, I am bilingual, does that count ?
Hey Rick , I just watched your video on left handed guitar playing . You taught me a term I've never heard before . Cross Dominant , so that's what It's called . Growing up I was the only one that played drums backwards . I'm one of those people that plays guitar or drums left handed I write left handed . But throw right handed and bat right handed ! So I'm a 1% er Lol !
I’ve been playing guitar for a long time. I write with my left but I’m cross dominant. I’ve always struggled with faster picking. When I flipped my guitar over the other day I was able to tremolo pick the open string better than I can with my right hand which makes me upset. I should’ve played lefty but at the time I had no guidance when I started guitar so I just bought what they sold me. I think I’ll buy a lefty guitar and try to slowly build up my playing. Just a few minutes a day and keep playing right handed as well so I can still feel like I haven’t wasted my time completely all these years.
I've played for over 45 years, and I can't play squat if I swap the guitar around to left handed. Then again, that's on a right handed guitar so the strings are upside down, but I still think I couldn't do it even on a proper left handed guitar. It's just that alien.
I write and throw right handed but play guitar and pool left handed. I guess that I’m cross-dominant. Interestingly though I seem to be able to learn tasks for my “opposite” side more easily than most, except the guitar, I’m useless right handed on the guitar lol. 😂
Left handed, play left handed. Mirror image of the your likely right handed teacher, no problems with choice anymore.
I wrote left handed and still play right handed. But I’m currently learning left handed. It gave me something to do during COVID even tho it basically had nothing to do with me “essential”
Hell yea. I'm finding out more and more people play like I do, with the high E on top, left handed. I just recently flipped a lefty Rhoads with a floating trem. Switched the saddles and had a custom milled reversed nut on the head. So far it's been solid
C'mon Rick, you are great, but a lot of these "assertions" sound like "your" opinion, do you have any facts to back any of this up???
Hendrix could play the guitar right and left handed with the thick string top or bottom didnt make any difference to him
2 cents worth short story. I thank the Beatles for getting me my first guitar, back in '64. I was 12 years old when they first appeared on Ed Sullivan. A month later on my 13th birthday Mom presented me with a Sears Silverstone guitar after seeing me playing broom guitar to a Beatle song (She Loves You) playing on the radio. Mom didn't realize I was a lefty, so I turned the righty guitar upside down and tried to get sound out of it. Taking it around my neighborhood friends showed me a few beginners chords as I switched the strings so sitting across from my right handed friends made our guitar necks a mirror image of the string setup. I took a guitar with me everywhere I went in life through the Air Force years and various jobs in a career guy, lifelong, guitar learning experience. Bought my first true lefty at Manny's in New York and met another lefty guitar player. We spent a day jamming at Sheep Meadow in Central Park and played a couple of songs with a crowd gathering when I noticed I had stage fright. I have played and continued to learn and now at 73 and retired I have a lot of time and sing and play at open mics and community suppers. Rick, it is interesting to hear your son Dylan is a lefty. I play guitar and throw a ball and write lefty but bat a baseball right handed. A lot of kids that are lefty learn to play guitar righty because guitar shops are full of righty guitars with scarcely a few lefty models. I play true lefties. Mom had my original Silvertone for sale in her antique shop in Vermont a few years back. I bought it from her and used some of its parts for a beginner guitar for my Lefty granddaughter. I still thank The Beatles and my favorite thing to still do is play the guitar.
In my view eye dominance is the most important thing and should dictate which handedness you choose to go with doing most things. Will save you alot of trouble in the end.