Author: Ian Bush Date Posted:13 November 2020
This is a subject which a lot of people have an opinion on. honestly? there is no right or wrong answer. the best way is to decide what is right for you.
As any serious guitar player will tell you, the hand that does most of the work is the left hand (the hand pressing down on the frets), but for all us right-handed players we are using our weaker hand to do the hard work and our stronger hand to strum. Now if you are fingerpicking you might be using your "other hand" more.
So this strikes me as something a little odd, for a right-handed guitar player (which is what I am) I am using my weakest hand to do the hardest part. Mind you, if I'm playing a left-handed guitar I feel incredibly awkward (but is that just the result of being used to one way for 30 years?)
While I was researching this subject I found a great blog post by Michael Murray on the subject, and he has similar views to me, it's well worth a read for more information and another point of view.
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By: Anonymous on 14 February 2021A guitar is a two-handed instrument - and a lot of people will even say that the fretting hand does more hard work and requires more dexterity than the strumming hand. Being a lety, I was advised to pick a left-handed guitar. Soon I wanted to buy a Martin, and they had only 1 lefty Martins in the entire store - one of the biggest in London, and the one i liked, they had to have brought over from a store in another city. So forget about comparing different guitars to get the feel of the one you like, if you go lefty. You will probably ask for the one lefty in stock and thats the one you'll buy. Same for electric, the Fender strat pro 2 came out in October 2020 - but the left-handed wont be available till June 2021 atleast, and only a handful of items at that. If you, like me, fancy the PRS silversky (John Mayer fans?) forget about it - theres no PRS silversky for lefties.th Having asked multiple store-owners I am told that less than 1% people play left-handed guitars so theres no market for it. So in short, I do regret having listened to the store-guy who advised me to go lefty, because in the end, it was my right hand that ended up developing all the muscle strength and dexterity anyway. I have no doubt that had I gone right-handed, I would be atleast as good as I am with my lefty-guitar, without the added headache of there being so few lefty instruments available. Unless you're lefty in a way that your right-hand has sworn not to strum, I say try right-handed guitar, and save yourself tons of trouble!
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