I am a lefty. I strum with my left hand but rather than restring or retune the ukulele I figured out how to play the chords upside down. Sometimes this makes chords harder for me to play, but I have fun learning in my own way.
@@alanwhitney3263 I have an electric righty uke which I play upside down. Lefty Uke's are nearly 40 percent more expensive. After all: it's just how you learn; and I prefer to use my "hand with rhythm" lol. Best, Bart
I'm left handed! Honestly I digress with the whole tuning up or down, it's a good idea but I think it might be more complicated for beginners? Especially with a new instrument and when you are new to tuning! I personally re-stringed everything, and even started to learn with the uke right-handed and it wasn't uncomfortable, I even kinda regretted it the day restringed because I lost some minor progress as a beginner! But now I don't regret at all ❤☺ even if I have to pay special attention to finger patterns while looking at chords! But thank uu for this video. It feels nice to be included! 🥺
I think that left handed players should just do what makes them comfortable. It doesn't matter how they do it as long as it doesn't hurt or feel unnatural right? Besides, playing a uke as a RH instrument as a left handed person clearly works since Kalei Gamiao is left handed and he's amazing. Same with the LH option.
I'm a lefty and have no issue playing right handed. I started that way because it was easier to follow the tutorials. I do struggle with strumming patterns so perhaps that would be helped by using my dominant hand.
I agree 100! At the end it all depends on that one person who is playing the uke, he/she gets to choose what they are comfortable with. Just because many are right handed doesn't mean you have to follow that. That's the beauty of music, there are no rules for things like that! Also, I read the description box and you are a GREAT teacher, the kind to let her players choose their way ❤️
I´m left handed and I´m strumming with the left hand. I turned the strings upside down, it`s more easy for me to learn the chords. At the beginning, some players told me, to start playing right handed, but it didn`t felt confortable to me. I think, there is nothing to discuss about, because every player has to find out by him- or herself, what is the most confortable way to play.
Very helpful-my partner is a lefty & we agree the dominant hand works best for strumming for him. A very well known Hawaiian ukulele teacher also commented that the heart of the music is in the rhythm & is best played with your dominant hand. Thank you for this video. We love your channel!
I'm a lefty, the tricky part about this topic is that most things are created for right-handed people, so growing up, I learned to do most things right handed, the exceptions are writing and catching/throwing a baseball. So I play the ukulele and guitar right handed, that said, your discussion brings up some valid points, it takes a lot of work for me to learn new strumming patterns, chunking, etc. with my right hand - I probably won't switch though because I would have to relearn everything. As always, enjoy your videos.
Me too! You reminded me of my first vacation in the US where I first saw a left handed shop (in Boston). So excited I insisted on visiting and tried a pair of left handed scissors. I couldn’t use the things! I was so conditioned to adapting to the right hand world I just couldn’t cope when it tried to adapt for me! 😂
I have a left handed daughter who started playing the fiddle! Everybody recommended she do it right handed, after a couple of months her teacher thought she wasn’t going to be able to learn, her husband who is her piano teacher reminded her that she is left handed. They had their Luthier modify the fiddle for her and it was night and day. With the bow the lack of dexterity on the non-dominant hand was amplified
Thank you so much for making this video! This was a serious issue I had years ago when I started playing. I'm a lefty but was forced to learn drums righty when I started in music 30 years ago. Also forced to write with my right hand growing up. Ended up being a music major in college for percussion so was able to adapt. Im also now a physical therapist so very interested in learning styles. I talked to a lot of people when I was looking into the uke and a lot of my friends who are professionals or instructors told me to just learn righty, but my strumming hand NEVER felt comfortable with my right. After playing daily for 6 weeks, I started to get discouraged until I read that Paul McCartney is a lefty that learned the guitar upside down. "If he can do it, I can too." So instead of changing everything, i flipped the uke upside down and instead taught my myself to read the notation upside down. I probably sounds insane but it's not as hard as you would think. Now, im so comfortable playing and progressing well, but can also grab any uke off a shelf or from a friend and play without having to retune anything!
I just saw this video and am happy to hear you suggest folks learn to play by what feels right to them. I’m a lefty and the first time I picked up a uke I naturally held it left handed. To be fair I tried it righty and knew that would never work. I first learned a few chords upside down and realized that wouldn’t go far so restrung the uke so I would not have to relearn everything if I went too long with that configuration. It’s as easy for me to strum, chuck, play finger style etc left handed as it is for a right hander to play the way they prefer. I believe we all have the capability to become ambidextrous if we so choose but why not just let your child or yourself learn in the way that is most comfortable to them/you, it’s enough of a challenge to learn a stringed instrument! Also, I do restring all 4 strings and use strings that most closely fit the nut slots that they are going in…for example I found that the Aquila wound low G is almost the exact same size as the A slot on my uke….so eventually I was able to create a good set of lefty strings for my right hand uke. I’m not sure about just retuning the existing strings b/c that might put too much tension on some and not enough on others. Anyway, thanks for your support and acknowledgment here. Being different doesn’t mean we are handicapped!
I am a Lefty - and THANK YOU for my validation. I am a relative newbie and as I was looking for a ukulele, everyone kept telling me I should just use the standard ukulele. However, I opted for an actual Left Handed instrument - not restrung. I have been able to transcribe chord charts really easily after first working on a Left-Handed chord chart first. I have tried a friend’s ukulele and I can’t imagine if I was strumming with my right hand. (I play piano - and okay the same way a Righty does. What’s the difference? Don’t know, but Left-handed Ukes are working great for me.)
I am left handed and play left handed. I think lefties should play the way they feel most comfortable. There are some really famous ukulele players that are left handed and play right handed. With many advanced playing techniques and styles both hands are doing so much simultaneously that it is hard to say one hand is working harder or doing more difficult techniques than the other. They are actually needing to work independent of each other and in perfect unison with each other. Regarding the strings. Unless a lefty wants to learn upside down, at least the C and E should be changed on reentrant ukuleles and always change all 4 on linear tuned ukuleles. Retuning reentrant ukuleles left handed without changing the strings to left handed changes the feel and tonal qualities of the instrument and both in a bad way because, with the exception of Aquilla Reds, there is a significant difference in the thickness of C an E strings. They are different thickness for a reason. That reason is to get the best possible sound in relation to one another when properly tuned while playing. It is easy to change strings so just switch the strings to left handed orientation in order to play left handed. A bigger issue is at play here. I believe that persons who are not real experienced and beginners should get their instruments from reputable sellers, whether in person or online, that will setup the ukulele properly and restring left handed for lefties that want their ukuleles restrung. A few extra dollars spent to get a properly setup ukulele will help insure the new lefty player will keep playing.🙂
I play left handed. I tried to play right hand, but my left hand can't form the chords, and strumming with my right is so confusing. I had to laugh when someone in a uke group said to me "maybe you have no business playing left handed ". I just replied "Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney did ok and would disagree with you, and probably play better you" LOL
I am right handed, but learning to play left. My left pinky finger was severed as a child. After reattachment, the joint connected to the tip does not bend. I know the pinky is not used much, but it is still used on the fretboard regardless. I have a steep hill to go through, and it could wind up being a mountainous task, but life has its' challenges to get through.
Haha loved this video! I'm a lefty, for those who didn't know.. and I never understood why leftists wanted to switch instruments. Then (like 2 years later) I saw a video about strumming techniques and why you should use your dominant hand to play ... made complete sense!!!! But it was to late for me to switch. So.... in my conclussion, We as lefties can play both ways. We just need to practice more with the hand that's not the dominant one.. and this goes for all of us! In my case, I have to work more on the strumming/picking techniques, while a right-handed person will have to work more on the chord switching techniques. Anyway.... WE NEED TO PRACTICE! Hahahaha
As a lifelong "southpaw" I have always played instruments the right handed way, including the whole range of percussion instruments. I was as a young man trained as a percussionist and indeed in my school days you were forced to write with the right hand. The upshot was I was unable to write until the age of eight or nine years old. The brain rebels against such coercion and even now writing is not a comfortable experience. Thus you are right it must be an individual an natural choice on the part of the pupil. I play Uke right handed but cannot finger pick and even have distinct problems with something a rudimentary as the chuck. Paradoxically I have total hand and foot independence even extending to finger independence for such as the Tabla ( Indian finger drums ). Your younger students/devotees will not suffer from such mental blocks having developed during much more enlightened times and I freely admit there are still times when I resent what a rigid strict and blinkered education system did to me. As you might imagine Piano Forte is out of the question but I do enjoy the Ukulele. I have found also that playing is easier with a wide nut/ neck configuration such as a Kanile'a. I unashamedly own several high end Ukuleles the quality of which my playing will never be truly worthy of but my appreciation of their superior qualities and my heart's ease make them worth their price. Any lefty should try both configurations and come to their own conclusion. 👍
I am left handed. But I play right handed. I am more comfortable playing it right handed. My dad taught me 50 years ago this way when I was 5. There are some things I do with my left and is more difficult with my right and vice verca. I write with my left hand. I box left handed. I fence with my right. I shoot with either hand.
I’m lefty, I play with my left hand strumming. But that’s because in middle school they gave me a lefty guitar to play. So I was used to it. So when I started ukulele, I just bought a lefty one
I'm left handed and I play my ukulele left handed. So I switch the strings around so I strum with my left and do the chords with my right. Within the last year I found a left-handed ukulele beginner book on amazon and I have been learning that way mainly. I also watch a couple ukulele channels that better explain and help me learn things. All the people I watch are right handed and for me i can learn that way because you realize that all right-handed people are doing the same thing it's just the other way.
Lefty here. Great video! Years ago I learned a left-handed guitar. For me, it felt best for the left to do the strumming and the right on the frets. Worked well until I would pickup someone else’s guitar as all were right-handed models. I would either resort to playing upside down (poorly) or not at all. Many years later I picked up the ukulele and decided to give it a go with a right-handed model and play upside-down. Chords translate well and typically use the same fingers as the right hand. A couple can be challenging (I’m looking at you E) but don't regret the decision. I have the freedom to pickup any uke and no need to tweak or restring. Recommend trying upside-down and seeing how it goes.
I agree 100%. That's exactly what I did, and love that I can pick up anyone's uke, flip it over and have fun.......I do get some confused looks from time to time....HA
A fascinating discussion and one that interests me personally. There are some fascinating points well made on all sides. I think it all depends on the individual. As a very left oriented leftie I went to classical guitar classes 45 years ago and no one ever told that one could play left handed. I guess I probably found left hand fretting easier than some right handed students and probably had to practise more on the right hand technique than they did. After a long period of playing nothing when I discovered ukulele, acoustic guitar and mandolin I was so used to that way of playing I couldn’t ever swap back. A left handed feels wrong. I’ve always been a compliant leftie in a rightie world. One of the beginners who last year joined a uke group I lead is a leftie and chose to learn left handed on a restrung uke. She has done very well but does say how hard she found it at first to reverse chord diagrams and illustrative hand pics when watching stuff online. I guess it is whatever works for you. As for not restringing; the manager of one of the top specialist uke stores in the UK regularly demos right handed ukes played very expertly upside down. If it was OK for the fabulous Blues lady Elizabeth Cotten, who are we to judge?
I am lefty and play right handed. When i was young and in grade school teaches tried to make me right handed. So now i do some things left and some right. But my left is dominant.
The same thing happened to me. Teachers would smack my knuckles when I tried to write with my left hand. They made me do it right handed and griped they couldn't read it. When they finally decided to let me use my left hand to write.....I wrote backwards, from fight to left. To this day nobody can read my writing. I do some things right, some left. Uke and guitar right handed. Do what's comfortable for you.
I'm a lefty and I play right handed. I have no issues chucking, fingerprinting or doing strum patterns. I took guitar lessons many moons ago and the teacher just taught me the right-handed way so maybe some of that muscle memory is why I don't have issues 🤷🏽♀️
I'm left handed and am starting to learn the ukulele again after almost 50 years. I was taught right handed in school and by the time my music teacher realized I was a lefty, I changed schools. I have been told the same as you've heard, that lefties would have better dexterity with their chord hand if they play right handed. Doing a bit of research recently, I heard a logical explanation, that it's the strumming hand that should be the hand with which you normally keep rhythm. In my case, that's my left hand. Swapping strings just feels more natural for me.
I am literally a Day 1 beginner. I'm a lefty and have never played any instruments and just received my uke. I've been looking online about the lefty issue and I have heard those same people saying lefties have an advantage using it as their fret hand. 90% of the world is right-handed. I GUARANTEE that if that was harder, then guitars and Ukuleles would have been created differently, with the right hand being the fret hand!
So interesting. I am left dominant, but ambidextrous. I’ve chosen to restring and fret right handed. I learned long ago to learn from righties by mirroring them, so online learning feels very natural. It does stink when you go to test out a uke and it isn’t strung backwards. Lefties have to compensate all the time, so I feel like we’re better able to try things different ways until we come up with what feels right. I ever thought to just retune the strings as they are, although it sounds fairly risky. We should all live on the edge once in a while.
Excellent advice, from a technical perspective! Of course, it’s a range - some people are more left dominant, ambi, or more right dominant, but for those who are ‘more dominant’ (lefty or righty), this advice is 100%. Im a lefty and played uke upside down, strings right, and am now trying it retuned as an experiment, but I cannot strum with my right at all!
As soon as I've seen this videos topic, I got a little nervous. My whole life I got told, you're a lefty never played the guitar, so I should learn it the "proper" way, which was for them right-handed. I loved the Ukes sound and tried learning it several times but never stuck to it. It felt so unnatural and uncoordinated. It wasn't until I found this channel little more than a year ago, that I decided to restring my Uke and try to learn it by myself the way I would naturally hold the instrument. For me personally that was the best decision! And learning from the videos is not any more difficult for me as a lefty as I only have to keep in mind it's mirrored. That's it. So I was worried, what will this videos conclusion be? And it's absolutely right: it's probably easier to use your dominant hand for strumming patterns e.g.. But some lefties use to do a lot with their right hand, as well. So see what way it feels natural for you holding the instrument. Playing the Uke is so much fun. And it's not witchcraft even changing the strings. RUclips makes it easy 😉
I learned to play the violin as a child playing it right handed even though I am a lefty. That worked out well for me. My parents also gave me a small guitar when I was six but I never had lessons, I only ever tried learning it by myself and it never worked. I couldn't make strumming work with my right hand, even though I have tried again and again in the past 30+ years. I only realised how much this "failure" bothered me all these years, when I picked up a Ukulele in my late thirties and restrung it (on a whim) to play lefthanded. It worked instantly which was such a relief. I've always been musically inclined and thought something must be seriously wrong with my cognitive functions that I couldn't make the guitar work for me. (I still have that guitar hanging on my wall. Maybe I'll restring it someday and try again.) It's annoying that it's harder to try out Ukuleles in a shop or elsewhere, but for me personally the joy I get from finally being able to play something other than my violin makes up for that, tenfold at the least.
I am left handed and have tried playing guitar left handed before taking up ukulele, no problem playing right handed as have used my right hand on computers for many years
I'm a lefty and I simply flipped the uke the other way and learned how to finger the chords the easiest way I could. I can play just about any chord this way (simply by using a different inversion for some chords.....surprisingly, many chords that are difficult to play right handed, are easier to play left handed). The main reason I wanted to do it this way is because, there are probably at least 1000 right hand uke's out there for every 1 that is left hand. So by being able to simple flip a right hand uke the other way, I can play just about any right hand uke out there. Learning to play left handed would mean, if you didn't have your own left hand uke with you at all times.....you wouldn't have the option to play anyone else's probably right handed uke.
Im a lefty and play left handed. The problem is i can't find electric ukuleles i want Or like and reading tabs/chords is challanging. I did swap tbe middle strings. Good video, thank you
If you have more than one ukuleles, you can tune one of them the other way and try it for a few weeks. It's an interesting experience learning something left-handed while you're right-handed.
I'm a left-handed beginner. I will be strumming with my left hand. The strings stay the same, so I can follow the diagrams easier. I have Carpal tunnel getting problematic, but not so much on the right. So that's what I have to work with. My biggest problem is having someone put on the strap attachments! This crazy pineapple is impossible to just hold.
I learned electric guitar left-handed, and have a proper left-handed one. However when I considered buying a uke, I intentionally decided to keep it as a right-handed one, but hold it the correct left-handed way. No restringing no retuning. This would give the advantage that once I’d learned it I could pick up those right-handed people’s ukes and play, and also I could hand my uke to right-handed people and they’d be ok too. There’s a lot of chords I simply find impossible to fret, but not to worry, that means there’s a lot of chords I won’t play, which is easier and also more akin to chance-based and mechanistically-intervened experimental music.
My nephew is left-handed when he picked up a guitar and a ukulele for the first time in his life, he was 20 years old. And he played like a right-handed man. When you're a beginner, it may not matter because everything is difficult for you, no matter what hand. I would advise you to try to play a regular instrument. Perhaps in a couple of weeks you will begin to be able to play with your right hand. But if not, then it is better to rearrange the strings and change hands.
I am left-handed and strum with the left. That just feels natural to me. As for stringing, I can't imagine looking at the chord diagrams and reversing it in my mind. That is way too confusing. Negotiating carpal tunnel and arthritis. I'll be finding finger placement as best I can. This one and the G ones are a challenge!
I have restrung it to play left handed mainly because I have played guitar for years and the ukulele chords are the same shape chords as the last four string of a guitar so it was much easier to transfer the chord knowledge from guitar to uke
I’m a righty and I play guitar and I’ve picked up a ukulele. I have cerebral palsy on my left side and it’s far easier to fret with my left hand. I have a Luna ukulele which is an acoustic/electric instrument.
Hey PYT. I play bass right handed. Been playing and teaching music for about 30 years. But I do play skinny string instruments left handed, due to crushing off tip of left middle finger. So not enough finger tip to press string down without digging a chunk out of the fretboard. And I do play right hand strung uke backwards and upside down. No need to retring instrument. Now if predominant left handed I suggest getting uke strung left handed. Other than that. Anyone can get used to playing it either way. Just takes a little time.
oddly enough I am also a physical therapist and left handed. when starting out learning the uke about a year ago (through your patreon) i debated lefty vs righty. i actually felt that my dominant left hand has more dexterity than my right, making the fret positions more natural and nimble. however, when the lessons switched from strumming to picking, i did feel at a disadvantage with my right non-dominant hand learning the quick motions. if i had a 2nd uke i would attempt lefty and give it more of a chance. i think that leftys in general are forced in other areas of life to use the non-dominant hand so to that extent it would probably depend more on the individual preference of what felt most natural. i love that you had the lefty option available for that student!
I'm a Lefty and had piano lessons as a child, but never got facility or strength in my left hand playing bass. My right hand is stronger on the melody, so I strum with my left and finger chords with my right.
One thing that isn't mentioned is that you can't use a friends ukelele if you go for the left handed options. I'm not sure I'd consider myself left handed, I actually do most things right handed but for some reason when I picked up a guitar, I held it like a lefty. Never felt right the other way, so I got a lefty guitar and learned that. I do everything right handed except playing the guitar, eating (I switch knife and fork except when I only use the knife) and snowboarding (goofy :D). One main downside to this is that it is hard to find lefty guitars. Spent years looking for a specific LH gibson. And also you can never play a friends guitar as they're usually right handed. But I didn't want to relearn everything so I just stick to LH guitars. But when I decided to try the ukelele, I wanted to be able to pick up any (well, most) ukelele and be able to play it. I tried to learn it like a right handed player but it's too unnatural. So I just flipped it over and without adjusting the strings, learned the chords upside down. It's a bit harder to read tabs and so, but you get used to it. Up/downstrokes need to be reversed too and even then sound a bit different but that is now considered part of my signature tune ;) I'd recommend all lefties to try simply flipping a right handed one over without restringing or retuning and see how it feels. Maybe you'll have issues on the mega-advanced stuff (don't know, I'm not there yet and probably never will be). But if you're at a bar where they've hung a ukelele and some guitars on the wall at least you can have a go :)
Hi thank you for your video, I’m a lefty and have flipped my strings which I find really comfortable but chord shapes on tutorials are right handed so it makes a little more complicated for us lefties to copy but we get there in the end 😅❤❤
After my first experience at 16 being turned away from guitar lessons for being (gasp) left-handed, I've decided to try the ukulele. The store that sold me my uke knew I was left-handed but never suggested a LH ukulele. I had no idea they even existed. Now, I'm faced with the dilemma of learning to play RH, which didn't work, playing it upside down, which is fine but I'm taking group lessons and that was just too much. So, I restrung it, but I've just read an article that the perfect string placement for left-handed playing is EACG. Isn't that basically the same as just flipping it over? I'm confused I also read something about all you have to do is switch G and C and a lefty can play the same as a right?
I'm a lefty who honestly thought I was playing right-handed until about a week into the 30-day challenge when I realized that, while I could learn chords off videos, I could not get the diagrams to make sense. Turns out, I was holding my uke in a mirror image to the video and just mentally adjusting, since that's how I learn pretty much everything anyway. Some quick researching on how to puzzle out diagrams (think like your fretboard/fingers/strings are a stamp and the chord chart is what that stamp left behind on the paper) I was good to go. After that initial set-up I did start swapping my strings, though, since I had originally tuned my factory-provided strings with G at the top and A on the bottom. Every time I change I make sure to keep that order intact.
I am lefty and I switch the strings. It's a problem if I want to play most of the guitars, ukelele, etc I find around but is how I felt better when started to play
I am left-handed. I play all other stringed instruments ( fiddle, guitar, bass ) lefty. The ukulele I play is right-handed. Okay, moving on! ;) My dominant hand ( did I mention I am left-handed>lol) has the rhythm; I just flipped upside down and learned the chords accordingly ;). It's only four little strings, right?! Anyway: Thank You B! You are an excellent teacher. Best, Bart
I am lefthanded and I am playing like a righthanded. Means, I am strumming with my right Hand. Usually my right Hand isnt very usefull for anything. But I thought, it would be easier to learn it the same way, like you show it in your tutorials. Now, its "normal" and i have no problems playing the Uke this way...i only cant get my Hand to Do the "Chuck"...i am working Hard on it :D
I'm also a lefty who plays right-handed, most often with Low G and with finger-picking. I read up lots on this right vs left (for lefties) topic when beginning on the Uke last year, and decided to try it right-handed, so I could swap ukes with others. So far it's going well. Would it be easier if I'd restrung and played it Leftie (or just played it upside down, Leftie)? - who knows!. I can't remember whether my violin (as 8 yo) was strung for left-handed playing, but I think it was! I had also played piano normally after violin (tho I wasn't stellar at it). I'd also tried classic guitar when aged 12, unsuccessfully, but I didn't find it any easier when I tried it left-handed in my 30s. I was going to say that if you've learned uke one way, stick with that. But then again I relearned to knit last year Leftie-style, and it is much smoother for me!
Interesting. I'm kind of a both handed. Although my left hand is dominant, eg. I write/throw with my left hand, I've learned some things with my right (ping-pong eg.), and I'm almost as good with a mouse with right as with left. Well, I've played on air guitar as a lefty all my life. :) But. As ukulele will be a new thing for me (already ordered my first instrument :)), I've decided to play as a righty, because I'll probably do as good as if I play lefty. The greatest advantage I get this way: I can play on other people's ukuleles at the end. It would be so sad if I finally learn to play and there is a ukulele somewhere, I say I can play it of course, but oh no, it is a righty ukulele, no music today. :)
I play these stringed instruments that are meant for the right handed ones , with my left hand like i flip over the guitar or ukulele whatever the stringed instrument it is and i play .so , there are few things that I'm quite confused about is , do I have to flip the strings over with the instrument or it's fine not restringing the instrument. Anyone please guide me
I struggled to play right handed so I would play it upside down. I really wanted to be able to pick up any ukulele and play it, so I would flip it back and forth as I practiced, and now I only play right handed. I think it’s more important to play however makes it easy.
I am a lefty. I strum with my left hand but rather than restring or retune the ukulele I figured out how to play the chords upside down. Sometimes this makes chords harder for me to play, but I have fun learning in my own way.
Did think of that or even buying a left handed uke, maybe something for the future
Wow. I transpose chord charts - consider them flipped - but upside down is pretty amazing.
@@alanwhitney3263 looked into it, but they are WAY more expensive. They started around $160 when I was looking
@@alanwhitney3263 I have an electric righty uke which I play upside down. Lefty Uke's are nearly 40 percent more expensive. After all: it's just how you learn; and I prefer to use my "hand with rhythm" lol. Best, Bart
@@coryblock9077 like left handed golf clubs unfortunately
I'm left handed! Honestly I digress with the whole tuning up or down, it's a good idea but I think it might be more complicated for beginners? Especially with a new instrument and when you are new to tuning! I personally re-stringed everything, and even started to learn with the uke right-handed and it wasn't uncomfortable, I even kinda regretted it the day restringed because I lost some minor progress as a beginner! But now I don't regret at all ❤☺ even if I have to pay special attention to finger patterns while looking at chords! But thank uu for this video. It feels nice to be included! 🥺
I think that left handed players should just do what makes them comfortable. It doesn't matter how they do it as long as it doesn't hurt or feel unnatural right? Besides, playing a uke as a RH instrument as a left handed person clearly works since Kalei Gamiao is left handed and he's amazing. Same with the LH option.
I'm a lefty and have no issue playing right handed. I started that way because it was easier to follow the tutorials. I do struggle with strumming patterns so perhaps that would be helped by using my dominant hand.
I'm left handed and I play right handed. I didn't even know that was an option. But im also a pianist, so I'm used to using both hands equally.
I agree 100! At the end it all depends on that one person who is playing the uke, he/she gets to choose what they are comfortable with. Just because many are right handed doesn't mean you have to follow that. That's the beauty of music, there are no rules for things like that!
Also, I read the description box and you are a GREAT teacher, the kind to let her players choose their way ❤️
I´m left handed and I´m strumming with the left hand. I turned the strings upside down, it`s more easy for me to learn the chords. At the beginning, some players told me, to start playing right handed, but it didn`t felt confortable to me. I think, there is nothing to discuss about, because every player has to find out by him- or herself, what is the most confortable way to play.
Very helpful-my partner is a lefty & we agree the dominant hand works best for strumming for him. A very well known Hawaiian ukulele teacher also commented that the heart of the music is in the rhythm & is best played with your dominant hand. Thank you for this video. We love your channel!
I'm a lefty, the tricky part about this topic is that most things are created for right-handed people, so growing up, I learned to do most things right handed, the exceptions are writing and catching/throwing a baseball. So I play the ukulele and guitar right handed, that said, your discussion brings up some valid points, it takes a lot of work for me to learn new strumming patterns, chunking, etc. with my right hand - I probably won't switch though because I would have to relearn everything.
As always, enjoy your videos.
Me too! You reminded me of my first vacation in the US where I first saw a left handed shop (in Boston). So excited I insisted on visiting and tried a pair of left handed scissors. I couldn’t use the things! I was so conditioned to adapting to the right hand world I just couldn’t cope when it tried to adapt for me! 😂
@@roberteverest seem to do anything That requires one hand with the left,two hands required right handed,is this normal?
I have a left handed daughter who started playing the fiddle! Everybody recommended she do it right handed, after a couple of months her teacher thought she wasn’t going to be able to learn, her husband who is her piano teacher reminded her that she is left handed. They had their Luthier modify the fiddle for her and it was night and day. With the bow the lack of dexterity on the non-dominant hand was amplified
I am a lefty and I am only comfy playing lefty..
Thank you so much for making this video! This was a serious issue I had years ago when I started playing. I'm a lefty but was forced to learn drums righty when I started in music 30 years ago. Also forced to write with my right hand growing up. Ended up being a music major in college for percussion so was able to adapt. Im also now a physical therapist so very interested in learning styles.
I talked to a lot of people when I was looking into the uke and a lot of my friends who are professionals or instructors told me to just learn righty, but my strumming hand NEVER felt comfortable with my right. After playing daily for 6 weeks, I started to get discouraged until I read that Paul McCartney is a lefty that learned the guitar upside down. "If he can do it, I can too." So instead of changing everything, i flipped the uke upside down and instead taught my myself to read the notation upside down. I probably sounds insane but it's not as hard as you would think. Now, im so comfortable playing and progressing well, but can also grab any uke off a shelf or from a friend and play without having to retune anything!
That's interesting!
I just saw this video and am happy to hear you suggest folks learn to play by what feels right to them. I’m a lefty and the first time I picked up a uke I naturally held it left handed. To be fair I tried it righty and knew that would never work. I first learned a few chords upside down and realized that wouldn’t go far so restrung the uke so I would not have to relearn everything if I went too long with that configuration. It’s as easy for me to strum, chuck, play finger style etc left handed as it is for a right hander to play the way they prefer. I believe we all have the capability to become ambidextrous if we so choose but why not just let your child or yourself learn in the way that is most comfortable to them/you, it’s enough of a challenge to learn a stringed instrument!
Also, I do restring all 4 strings and use strings that most closely fit the nut slots that they are going in…for example I found that the Aquila wound low G is almost the exact same size as the A slot on my uke….so eventually I was able to create a good set of lefty strings for my right hand uke. I’m not sure about just retuning the existing strings b/c that might put too much tension on some and not enough on others. Anyway, thanks for your support and acknowledgment here. Being different doesn’t mean we are handicapped!
I am a Lefty - and THANK YOU for my validation. I am a relative newbie and as I was looking for a ukulele, everyone kept telling me I should just use the standard ukulele. However, I opted for an actual Left Handed instrument - not restrung. I have been able to transcribe chord charts really easily after first working on a Left-Handed chord chart first. I have tried a friend’s ukulele and I can’t imagine if I was strumming with my right hand. (I play piano - and okay the same way a Righty does. What’s the difference? Don’t know, but Left-handed Ukes are working great for me.)
I am left handed and play left handed.
I think lefties should play the way they feel most comfortable.
There are some really famous ukulele players that are left handed and play right handed.
With many advanced playing techniques and styles both hands are doing so much simultaneously that it is hard to say one hand is working harder or doing more difficult techniques than the other. They are actually needing to work independent of each other and in perfect unison with each other.
Regarding the strings. Unless a lefty wants to learn upside down, at least the C and E should be changed on reentrant ukuleles and always change all 4 on linear tuned ukuleles. Retuning reentrant ukuleles left handed without changing the strings to left handed changes the feel and tonal qualities of the instrument and both in a bad way because,
with the exception of Aquilla Reds, there is a significant difference in the thickness of C an E strings.
They are different thickness for a reason. That reason is to get the best possible sound in relation to one another when properly tuned while playing.
It is easy to change strings so just switch the strings to left handed orientation in order to play left handed.
A bigger issue is at play here.
I believe that persons who are not real experienced and beginners should get their instruments from reputable sellers, whether in person or online, that will setup the ukulele properly and restring left handed for lefties that want their ukuleles restrung. A few extra dollars spent to get a properly setup ukulele will help insure the new lefty player will keep playing.🙂
Thanks for this!!
I play left handed. I tried to play right hand, but my left hand can't form the chords, and strumming with my right is so confusing. I had to laugh when someone in a uke group said to me "maybe you have no business playing left handed ". I just replied "Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney did ok and would disagree with you, and probably play better you" LOL
I am right handed, but learning to play left. My left pinky finger was severed as a child. After reattachment, the joint connected to the tip does not bend. I know the pinky is not used much, but it is still used on the fretboard regardless. I have a steep hill to go through, and it could wind up being a mountainous task, but life has its' challenges to get through.
I love your earrings!!! They are beautiful 🎸. And amazing tutorial as usual!
Haha loved this video! I'm a lefty, for those who didn't know.. and I never understood why leftists wanted to switch instruments. Then (like 2 years later) I saw a video about strumming techniques and why you should use your dominant hand to play ... made complete sense!!!! But it was to late for me to switch. So.... in my conclussion, We as lefties can play both ways. We just need to practice more with the hand that's not the dominant one.. and this goes for all of us! In my case, I have to work more on the strumming/picking techniques, while a right-handed person will have to work more on the chord switching techniques. Anyway.... WE NEED TO PRACTICE! Hahahaha
Mari! Wow, I didn’t know and wouldn’t have guessed that you are a lefty. Thanks for your positive influence for the ukulele community!
As a lifelong "southpaw" I have always played instruments the right handed way, including the whole range of percussion instruments. I was as a young man trained as a percussionist and indeed in my school days you were forced to write with the right hand. The upshot was I was unable to write until the age of eight or nine years old. The brain rebels against such coercion and even now writing is not a comfortable experience. Thus you are right it must be an individual an natural choice on the part of the pupil. I play Uke right handed but cannot finger pick and even have distinct problems with something a rudimentary as the chuck. Paradoxically I have total hand and foot independence even extending to finger independence for such as the Tabla ( Indian finger drums ). Your younger students/devotees will not suffer from such mental blocks having developed during much more enlightened times and I freely admit there are still times when I resent what a rigid strict and blinkered education system did to me. As you might imagine Piano Forte is out of the question but I do enjoy the Ukulele. I have found also that playing is easier with a wide nut/ neck configuration such as a Kanile'a. I unashamedly own several high end Ukuleles the quality of which my playing will never be truly worthy of but my appreciation of their superior qualities and my heart's ease make them worth their price. Any lefty should try both configurations and come to their own conclusion. 👍
I am left handed. But I play right handed. I am more comfortable playing it right handed. My dad taught me 50 years ago this way when I was 5. There are some things I do with my left and is more difficult with my right and vice verca. I write with my left hand. I box left handed. I fence with my right. I shoot with either hand.
I’m lefty, I play with my left hand strumming. But that’s because in middle school they gave me a lefty guitar to play. So I was used to it. So when I started ukulele, I just bought a lefty one
I'm left handed and I play my ukulele left handed. So I switch the strings around so I strum with my left and do the chords with my right. Within the last year I found a left-handed ukulele beginner book on amazon and I have been learning that way mainly. I also watch a couple ukulele channels that better explain and help me learn things. All the people I watch are right handed and for me i can learn that way because you realize that all right-handed people are doing the same thing it's just the other way.
Lefty here. Great video! Years ago I learned a left-handed guitar. For me, it felt best for the left to do the strumming and the right on the frets. Worked well until I would pickup someone else’s guitar as all were right-handed models. I would either resort to playing upside down (poorly) or not at all.
Many years later I picked up the ukulele and decided to give it a go with a right-handed model and play upside-down. Chords translate well and typically use the same fingers as the right hand. A couple can be challenging (I’m looking at you E) but don't regret the decision. I have the freedom to pickup any uke and no need to tweak or restring. Recommend trying upside-down and seeing how it goes.
I agree 100%. That's exactly what I did, and love that I can pick up anyone's uke, flip it over and have fun.......I do get some confused looks from time to time....HA
A fascinating discussion and one that interests me personally. There are some fascinating points well made on all sides. I think it all depends on the individual. As a very left oriented leftie I went to classical guitar classes 45 years ago and no one ever told that one could play left handed. I guess I probably found left hand fretting easier than some right handed students and probably had to practise more on the right hand technique than they did. After a long period of playing nothing when I discovered ukulele, acoustic guitar and mandolin I was so used to that way of playing I couldn’t ever swap back. A left handed feels wrong. I’ve always been a compliant leftie in a rightie world.
One of the beginners who last year joined a uke group I lead is a leftie and chose to learn left handed on a restrung uke. She has done very well but does say how hard she found it at first to reverse chord diagrams and illustrative hand pics when watching stuff online. I guess it is whatever works for you.
As for not restringing; the manager of one of the top specialist uke stores in the UK regularly demos right handed ukes played very expertly upside down. If it was OK for the fabulous Blues lady Elizabeth Cotten, who are we to judge?
I am lefty and play right handed.
When i was young and in grade school teaches tried to make me right handed.
So now i do some things left and some right. But my left is dominant.
The same thing happened to me. Teachers would smack my knuckles when I tried to write with my left hand. They made me do it right handed and griped they couldn't read it. When they finally decided to let me use my left hand to write.....I wrote backwards, from fight to left. To this day nobody can read my writing. I do some things right, some left. Uke and guitar right handed. Do what's comfortable for you.
I'm a lefty and I play right handed. I have no issues chucking, fingerprinting or doing strum patterns.
I took guitar lessons many moons ago and the teacher just taught me the right-handed way so maybe some of that muscle memory is why I don't have issues 🤷🏽♀️
I'm left handed and am starting to learn the ukulele again after almost 50 years. I was taught right handed in school and by the time my music teacher realized I was a lefty, I changed schools. I have been told the same as you've heard, that lefties would have better dexterity with their chord hand if they play right handed. Doing a bit of research recently, I heard a logical explanation, that it's the strumming hand that should be the hand with which you normally keep rhythm. In my case, that's my left hand. Swapping strings just feels more natural for me.
I am literally a Day 1 beginner. I'm a lefty and have never played any instruments and just received my uke. I've been looking online about the lefty issue and I have heard those same people saying lefties have an advantage using it as their fret hand. 90% of the world is right-handed. I GUARANTEE that if that was harder, then guitars and Ukuleles would have been created differently, with the right hand being the fret hand!
So interesting. I am left dominant, but ambidextrous. I’ve chosen to restring and fret right handed. I learned long ago to learn from righties by mirroring them, so online learning feels very natural. It does stink when you go to test out a uke and it isn’t strung backwards. Lefties have to compensate all the time, so I feel like we’re better able to try things different ways until we come up with what feels right. I ever thought to just retune the strings as they are, although it sounds fairly risky. We should all live on the edge once in a while.
Excellent advice, from a technical perspective! Of course, it’s a range - some people are more left dominant, ambi, or more right dominant, but for those who are ‘more dominant’ (lefty or righty), this advice is 100%. Im a lefty and played uke upside down, strings right, and am now trying it retuned as an experiment, but I cannot strum with my right at all!
As soon as I've seen this videos topic, I got a little nervous. My whole life I got told, you're a lefty never played the guitar, so I should learn it the "proper" way, which was for them right-handed. I loved the Ukes sound and tried learning it several times but never stuck to it. It felt so unnatural and uncoordinated. It wasn't until I found this channel little more than a year ago, that I decided to restring my Uke and try to learn it by myself the way I would naturally hold the instrument. For me personally that was the best decision! And learning from the videos is not any more difficult for me as a lefty as I only have to keep in mind it's mirrored. That's it. So I was worried, what will this videos conclusion be? And it's absolutely right: it's probably easier to use your dominant hand for strumming patterns e.g.. But some lefties use to do a lot with their right hand, as well. So see what way it feels natural for you holding the instrument. Playing the Uke is so much fun. And it's not witchcraft even changing the strings. RUclips makes it easy 😉
I learned to play the violin as a child playing it right handed even though I am a lefty. That worked out well for me. My parents also gave me a small guitar when I was six but I never had lessons, I only ever tried learning it by myself and it never worked. I couldn't make strumming work with my right hand, even though I have tried again and again in the past 30+ years.
I only realised how much this "failure" bothered me all these years, when I picked up a Ukulele in my late thirties and restrung it (on a whim) to play lefthanded. It worked instantly which was such a relief. I've always been musically inclined and thought something must be seriously wrong with my cognitive functions that I couldn't make the guitar work for me. (I still have that guitar hanging on my wall. Maybe I'll restring it someday and try again.)
It's annoying that it's harder to try out Ukuleles in a shop or elsewhere, but for me personally the joy I get from finally being able to play something other than my violin makes up for that, tenfold at the least.
I am left handed and have tried playing guitar left handed before taking up ukulele, no problem playing right handed as have used my right hand on computers for many years
I'm a lefty and I simply flipped the uke the other way and learned how to finger the chords the easiest way I could. I can play just about any chord this way (simply by using a different inversion for some chords.....surprisingly, many chords that are difficult to play right handed, are easier to play left handed). The main reason I wanted to do it this way is because, there are probably at least 1000 right hand uke's out there for every 1 that is left hand. So by being able to simple flip a right hand uke the other way, I can play just about any right hand uke out there. Learning to play left handed would mean, if you didn't have your own left hand uke with you at all times.....you wouldn't have the option to play anyone else's probably right handed uke.
Im a lefty and play left handed. The problem is i can't find electric ukuleles i want Or like and reading tabs/chords is challanging. I did swap tbe middle strings. Good video, thank you
If you have more than one ukuleles, you can tune one of them the other way and try it for a few weeks. It's an interesting experience learning something left-handed while you're right-handed.
I'm a left-handed beginner.
I will be strumming with my left hand.
The strings stay the same, so I can follow the diagrams easier.
I have Carpal tunnel getting problematic, but not so much on the right.
So that's what I have to work with.
My biggest problem is having someone put on the strap attachments! This crazy pineapple is impossible to just hold.
I learned electric guitar left-handed, and have a proper left-handed one. However when I considered buying a uke, I intentionally decided to keep it as a right-handed one, but hold it the correct left-handed way. No restringing no retuning. This would give the advantage that once I’d learned it I could pick up those right-handed people’s ukes and play, and also I could hand my uke to right-handed people and they’d be ok too. There’s a lot of chords I simply find impossible to fret, but not to worry, that means there’s a lot of chords I won’t play, which is easier and also more akin to chance-based and mechanistically-intervened experimental music.
My nephew is left-handed when he picked up a guitar and a ukulele for the first time in his life, he was 20 years old. And he played like a right-handed man. When you're a beginner, it may not matter because everything is difficult for you, no matter what hand. I would advise you to try to play a regular instrument. Perhaps in a couple of weeks you will begin to be able to play with your right hand. But if not, then it is better to rearrange the strings and change hands.
I am left-handed and strum with the left.
That just feels natural to me.
As for stringing, I can't imagine looking at the chord diagrams and reversing it in my mind. That is way too confusing.
Negotiating carpal tunnel and arthritis.
I'll be finding finger placement as best I can.
This one and the G ones are a challenge!
I have restrung it to play left handed mainly because I have played guitar for years and the ukulele chords are the same shape chords as the last four string of a guitar so it was much easier to transfer the chord knowledge from guitar to uke
I’m a righty and I play guitar and I’ve picked up a ukulele. I have cerebral palsy on my left side and it’s far easier to fret with my left hand. I have a Luna ukulele which is an acoustic/electric instrument.
I am lefty and play righty. It was recommended that if you have never learned to just learn righty, as most tutorials and instruments are righty.
Hey PYT. I play bass right handed. Been playing and teaching music for about 30 years. But I do play skinny string instruments left handed, due to crushing off tip of left middle finger. So not enough finger tip to press string down without digging a chunk out of the fretboard. And I do play right hand strung uke backwards and upside down. No need to retring instrument. Now if predominant left handed I suggest getting uke strung left handed. Other than that. Anyone can get used to playing it either way. Just takes a little time.
Hi i am a leftie and have been playing since may 2020 i play the right handed way . i feel comfortable playing that way x
oddly enough I am also a physical therapist and left handed. when starting out learning the uke about a year ago (through your patreon) i debated lefty vs righty. i actually felt that my dominant left hand has more dexterity than my right, making the fret positions more natural and nimble. however, when the lessons switched from strumming to picking, i did feel at a disadvantage with my right non-dominant hand learning the quick motions. if i had a 2nd uke i would attempt lefty and give it more of a chance. i think that leftys in general are forced in other areas of life to use the non-dominant hand so to that extent it would probably depend more on the individual preference of what felt most natural. i love that you had the lefty option available for that student!
I'm a Lefty and had piano lessons as a child, but never got facility or strength in my left hand playing bass. My right hand is stronger on the melody, so I strum with my left and finger chords with my right.
my girl is left-handed ..
and i.want her to learn ukulele too,thankyou for ur video👍
Yay I've been doing it all right! Thanks for the video 🙂
I’m a left handed and for me , I used to it and as the day goes by.. it’s fine. I restring the 2 middle string. Thank you for this video.
One thing that isn't mentioned is that you can't use a friends ukelele if you go for the left handed options.
I'm not sure I'd consider myself left handed, I actually do most things right handed but for some reason when I picked up a guitar, I held it like a lefty. Never felt right the other way, so I got a lefty guitar and learned that. I do everything right handed except playing the guitar, eating (I switch knife and fork except when I only use the knife) and snowboarding (goofy :D).
One main downside to this is that it is hard to find lefty guitars. Spent years looking for a specific LH gibson. And also you can never play a friends guitar as they're usually right handed. But I didn't want to relearn everything so I just stick to LH guitars.
But when I decided to try the ukelele, I wanted to be able to pick up any (well, most) ukelele and be able to play it. I tried to learn it like a right handed player but it's too unnatural. So I just flipped it over and without adjusting the strings, learned the chords upside down. It's a bit harder to read tabs and so, but you get used to it. Up/downstrokes need to be reversed too and even then sound a bit different but that is now considered part of my signature tune ;)
I'd recommend all lefties to try simply flipping a right handed one over without restringing or retuning and see how it feels. Maybe you'll have issues on the mega-advanced stuff (don't know, I'm not there yet and probably never will be). But if you're at a bar where they've hung a ukelele and some guitars on the wall at least you can have a go :)
Hi thank you for your video, I’m a lefty and have flipped my strings which I find really comfortable but chord shapes on tutorials are right handed so it makes a little more complicated for us lefties to copy but we get there in the end 😅❤❤
After my first experience at 16 being turned away from guitar lessons for being (gasp) left-handed, I've decided to try the ukulele. The store that sold me my uke knew I was left-handed but never suggested a LH ukulele. I had no idea they even existed. Now, I'm faced with the dilemma of learning to play RH, which didn't work, playing it upside down, which is fine but I'm taking group lessons and that was just too much.
So, I restrung it, but I've just read an article that the perfect string placement for left-handed playing is EACG. Isn't that basically the same as just flipping it over? I'm confused
I also read something about all you have to do is switch G and C and a lefty can play the same as a right?
I'm a lefty who honestly thought I was playing right-handed until about a week into the 30-day challenge when I realized that, while I could learn chords off videos, I could not get the diagrams to make sense. Turns out, I was holding my uke in a mirror image to the video and just mentally adjusting, since that's how I learn pretty much everything anyway. Some quick researching on how to puzzle out diagrams (think like your fretboard/fingers/strings are a stamp and the chord chart is what that stamp left behind on the paper) I was good to go.
After that initial set-up I did start swapping my strings, though, since I had originally tuned my factory-provided strings with G at the top and A on the bottom. Every time I change I make sure to keep that order intact.
I am lefty and I switch the strings. It's a problem if I want to play most of the guitars, ukelele, etc I find around but is how I felt better when started to play
I am left-handed. I play all other stringed instruments ( fiddle, guitar, bass ) lefty. The ukulele I play is right-handed. Okay, moving on! ;) My dominant hand ( did I mention I am left-handed>lol) has the rhythm; I just flipped upside down and learned the chords accordingly ;). It's only four little strings, right?! Anyway: Thank You B! You are an excellent teacher. Best, Bart
As a Lefty, I agree and I thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
would it be by playing The Red Flag?
I am lefthanded and I am playing like a righthanded. Means, I am strumming with my right Hand. Usually my right Hand isnt very usefull for anything. But I thought, it would be easier to learn it the same way, like you show it in your tutorials. Now, its "normal" and i have no problems playing the Uke this way...i only cant get my Hand to Do the "Chuck"...i am working Hard on it :D
Im left handed too i just tried to use my right hand to strum and i just use to it
I play it upside down. Like i do on guitar
I'm also a lefty who plays right-handed, most often with Low G and with finger-picking. I read up lots on this right vs left (for lefties) topic when beginning on the Uke last year, and decided to try it right-handed, so I could swap ukes with others. So far it's going well. Would it be easier if I'd restrung and played it Leftie (or just played it upside down, Leftie)? - who knows!.
I can't remember whether my violin (as 8 yo) was strung for left-handed playing, but I think it was! I had also played piano normally after violin (tho I wasn't stellar at it). I'd also tried classic guitar when aged 12, unsuccessfully, but I didn't find it any easier when I tried it left-handed in my 30s.
I was going to say that if you've learned uke one way, stick with that. But then again I relearned to knit last year Leftie-style, and it is much smoother for me!
Respect your opinion, as a leftie i see why it would help but i play it rith hand strumming, i just feel more comftrable. Just my opinion tho
I was wondering if I can make my left handed ukulele, right handed?
Interesting. I'm kind of a both handed. Although my left hand is dominant, eg. I write/throw with my left hand, I've learned some things with my right (ping-pong eg.), and I'm almost as good with a mouse with right as with left.
Well, I've played on air guitar as a lefty all my life. :)
But. As ukulele will be a new thing for me (already ordered my first instrument :)), I've decided to play as a righty, because I'll probably do as good as if I play lefty. The greatest advantage I get this way: I can play on other people's ukuleles at the end. It would be so sad if I finally learn to play and there is a ukulele somewhere, I say I can play it of course, but oh no, it is a righty ukulele, no music today. :)
I play these stringed instruments that are meant for the right handed ones , with my left hand like i flip over the guitar or ukulele whatever the stringed instrument it is and i play .so , there are few things that I'm quite confused about is , do I have to flip the strings over with the instrument or it's fine not restringing the instrument. Anyone please guide me
I'm a Lefty and I can't even play the ukulele but I have one and want to play it .! I hate seeing dust on my ukulele . Please help me...
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I wasted a lot of time trying to play right handed. I am a strong leftie and it is much more natural to strum with my left hand.
Its hard no one does tutorials do left handed
Lefty plays right. Guitar too.
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I play left handed. And I bought a left handed ukulele
Left handed here. Play left handed since it’s natural.
I am a lefthanded persoooon
Hi❤️
That's me!
I struggled to play right handed so I would play it upside down. I really wanted to be able to pick up any ukulele and play it, so I would flip it back and forth as I practiced, and now I only play right handed. I think it’s more important to play however makes it easy.
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