Greetings fellow lefty! When I started playing, I made the conscious decision to learn right-handed for the many obvious reasons you mentioned. I figured if you're starting from scratch, it doesn't really matter which way you hold it. So now it's forty years later and I don't regret that decision. I've found having your dominant hand on the fretboard has actually been a solid choice overall. The only downside is that advanced picking techniques are far more difficult for me, but I persevere. Cheers!
Interesting. Lots of people are in the same boat as you (even natural right-handed people like Kurt Cobain who were simply taught by left-handed people), I just absolutely could not get my head round using my weak hand to pick, no matter how, I suppose since that it's an action a little closer to writing.
Me being from the country I am in, my school music teacher told me I couldn't play guitar when I picked it up lefty naturally. I was 10, wasn't exposed to western rock music nor guitarists. I just accepted it. Cut to 12th grade and my cousin told me left-handed guitars are a thing, and I got one. It's been such a long and amazing journey ever since man, learning about music in general, it's made me discover and appreciate so many varieties of music, artists and communities, guitar-related or otherwise
Another great video Albert - kept thinking any second you would mention the origin of the word ‘sinister’ is the Latin word for “left”. Look forward to seeing the videos you mention are in the works - Lana del Ray, Oasis and Picasso/Stravinsky 😮. Congrats and hope more people like and subscribe as you clearly put your heart and soul into this channel! 🎉❤
im a left handed guitarist and started guitar the 'proper' left handed way when i was around 9-10, i took a bit of a break n im 18 now and have been using my left hand shaping chords the traditional way and its worked great for 4 years LOL, idk i find it convenient tho i should return to ur preffered way as a leftie for a go again. I always find it like how left handed swordsmen where considered 'sinister' for being able to take it out of their sheith swifter. Was itching at the neck u didnt speak more on this side of the boat hahaha
Pure Excellence! Can i know your musical background where do you learn music theory and how many instruments you can play.. So fascinated by your knowledge 🤝
Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed :) I've been playing piano since I was six, clarinet since I was seven, and guitar since I was about ten, so really I've been learning about music theory and playing my whole life, and everything I do here is just a culmination of that.
As a left-hander, I was taught how to play as a RH. I obviously don't know what benefits, if any, that I would have missed out on. My teacher was also a left-hander and often said, on a gig and or in pinch you can always use someone else guitar.
It's such a nightmare to never be able to pinch somebody else's guitar, so I suppose if you can play right-handed then why not? I tried right-handed first and just couldn't get along with it, so left-handed was really the only way personally.
Hay Albert, I like the videos but in this one you have 1 mistake. When you said that everyone in your family is right handed you were wrong. I am your second cousin (I think) and my Aunt, Ela is left handed.
Ah that’s interesting Travis! So that makes your left-handed aunty Eila the first cousin once removed of Albert. And she’s also very musical. The apple doesn’t fall (very far) from the tree!
He played right-handed guitars but strung them left-handed. Those I mention here played them with the strings upside down, like Dick Dale, Albert King, Bob Geldof, etc.
@@AlbertGenower But did you know that jimi hendrix learned to play guitar with the strings upside down. So he could play both ways left-handed. His father would punish him for playing lefthanded so he would flip from playing right-handed when he wasn't around.
@@emmanuelwood8702 I did not know that! I can play a little like that (it’s something of a required skill when there’s only a right handed guitar in somebody’s house!)
Greetings fellow lefty! When I started playing, I made the conscious decision to learn right-handed for the many obvious reasons you mentioned. I figured if you're starting from scratch, it doesn't really matter which way you hold it. So now it's forty years later and I don't regret that decision. I've found having your dominant hand on the fretboard has actually been a solid choice overall. The only downside is that advanced picking techniques are far more difficult for me, but I persevere. Cheers!
Interesting. Lots of people are in the same boat as you (even natural right-handed people like Kurt Cobain who were simply taught by left-handed people), I just absolutely could not get my head round using my weak hand to pick, no matter how, I suppose since that it's an action a little closer to writing.
Me being from the country I am in, my school music teacher told me I couldn't play guitar when I picked it up lefty naturally. I was 10, wasn't exposed to western rock music nor guitarists. I just accepted it.
Cut to 12th grade and my cousin told me left-handed guitars are a thing, and I got one. It's been such a long and amazing journey ever since man, learning about music in general, it's made me discover and appreciate so many varieties of music, artists and communities, guitar-related or otherwise
Another great video Albert - kept thinking any second you would mention the origin of the word ‘sinister’ is the Latin word for “left”. Look forward to seeing the videos you mention are in the works - Lana del Ray, Oasis and Picasso/Stravinsky 😮. Congrats and hope more people like and subscribe as you clearly put your heart and soul into this channel! 🎉❤
im a left handed guitarist and started guitar the 'proper' left handed way when i was around 9-10, i took a bit of a break n im 18 now and have been using my left hand shaping chords the traditional way and its worked great for 4 years LOL, idk i find it convenient tho i should return to ur preffered way as a leftie for a go again. I always find it like how left handed swordsmen where considered 'sinister' for being able to take it out of their sheith swifter. Was itching at the neck u didnt speak more on this side of the boat hahaha
loved this video brother🙏
Pure Excellence! Can i know your musical background where do you learn music theory and how many instruments you can play.. So fascinated by your knowledge 🤝
Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed :)
I've been playing piano since I was six, clarinet since I was seven, and guitar since I was about ten, so really I've been learning about music theory and playing my whole life, and everything I do here is just a culmination of that.
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That's insane.. You're very talented
@@creativemind_2798 thanks very much :)
As a left-hander, I was taught how to play as a RH. I obviously don't know what benefits, if any, that I would have missed out on. My teacher was also a left-hander and often said, on a gig and or in pinch you can always use someone else guitar.
It's such a nightmare to never be able to pinch somebody else's guitar, so I suppose if you can play right-handed then why not? I tried right-handed first and just couldn't get along with it, so left-handed was really the only way personally.
@@AlbertGenower For sure! I’m actually really interested to re-learn it as a lefty, I’ll get back to you a year later and let you know!
Hay Albert, I like the videos but in this one you have 1 mistake. When you said that everyone in your family is right handed you were wrong. I am your second cousin (I think) and my Aunt, Ela is left handed.
Ah that’s interesting Travis! So that makes your left-handed aunty Eila the first cousin once removed of Albert. And she’s also very musical. The apple doesn’t fall (very far) from the tree!
i am 28. i am a lefty, i am very creative but kinda have adhd if i am not very disciplined.. should i buy a left handed electric guitar?
You can always try in a guitar shop, many lefties play right handed guitars and vice versa.
Jimi Hendrix played right-handed guitars upside down. But was also able to play righthanded equally as well.
He played right-handed guitars but strung them left-handed. Those I mention here played them with the strings upside down, like Dick Dale, Albert King, Bob Geldof, etc.
@@AlbertGenower But did you know that jimi hendrix learned to play guitar with the strings upside down. So he could play both ways left-handed. His father would punish him for playing lefthanded so he would flip from playing right-handed when he wasn't around.
@@emmanuelwood8702 I did not know that! I can play a little like that (it’s something of a required skill when there’s only a right handed guitar in somebody’s house!)
SINISTRE!!!
pretty quality video nice😄
Thank you :)