Left Handed Guitar Lessons

The problem of taking left handed Guitar Lessons is one that 90% of the guitar playing population will never have to face.



No big deal though, being left handed makes you very adaptable! It could possibly be that being left handed is in fact to your benefit. There has been a lot of research carried out at University College London which now points to the idea that people with a left handed orientation are likely to be high achievers. High achievement in the sphere of sport and the arts is specifically evident. This can be one of those unusual moments where you have an edge.The important factor is to be sure you have a really good guitar tutor.



There are many extremely talented and successful guitar players who have travelled the learning process ahead of you. Jimmy Hendrix, Sir Paul McCartney, Tony Lommi and Mark Knopfler who is left handed but plays his guitar right handed, to name but a few.



From the outset your left handed Guitar Lessons will ask you a question. Should I play guitar left handed or should I try right handed? That might seem like a daft question. But when you look around possibly as many as fifty percent of the otherwise left handed guitar players find it best to play their guitars right handed. It is a measure of to what extent of being left handed a left handed player really is! Just what is the level of your handedness dominance?



If you are beginning from scratch then the consensus is that you really should try playing right handed. There are some good reasons for this Almost everything for guitar is geared up for the right handed player.That is the case for the instrument itself as well as most printed and recorded learning materials.



If after having stayed with this for two or three weeks you still find that when fretting a note your fingers can't quite find the required string then of course it is time to commence your left handed guitar lessons.



Many students starting to play the guitar find that at first they get very sore guitar fingers! If your fingers start to crack or hurt it is best to stop playing for a while to let your sore fingers heal. They soon toughen up as you continue to play your guitar..



The choice now is that you will have to get hold of a left handed guitar or, if needs be, you can flip the guitar and restring your right handed guitar in reverse with the thickest string at the top again. Not the best way but by far the cheapest option and if you see pictures of Jimmy Hendrix and his guitar - that's how he preferred to play it!



For your left handed guitar lessons the resources used are just the same as for right handed players. It is how you interpret that information that will be at variance as you will reverse the visual components as you come across them. Left handed people have to address this challenge in many areas of their lives and seldom find it a problem and will absorb the material with no more difficulty than their right handed counterparts.



Sitting in front of a teacher or using recorded video footage presents no real problem as the left handed player will be viewing an exact mirror image of the actions they will themselves perform on their guitar.



There are great advantages for those taking left handed guitar lessons in putting some money into a comprehensive home study course. In recognition of the fact that there may be an initial challenge for you get the hang of chord positioning and reading tablature the option to repeat any element in a home study course at will is a feature worth having.



The question often gets asked can you self teach guitar from a home study course? The number of such courses that are purchased today certainly suggests that the probability of success is there for those that take action and give it a try!



As soon as you feel the time is right and the opportunity is there then if you have been playing a flipped guitar replace it with a dedicated left hand model. Now with a new guitar your left handed guitar lessons will move on in leaps and bounds and your enjoyment in learning and playing it will skyrocket too!