Left Handed Guitars

Left Handed Guitars

For a southpaw (left handed) person there is a big difference between a right and left handed Guitar. Some people think you just turn the guitar around, but oh, no…there is more to it than that. The differences in right hand and left hand guitars aren’t solved by a mere flip; these 2 guitars are more like mirror images so everything needs to be reversed and altered.A right hand Acoustic Guitar can be used by a left handed person but it means some major adjustments. You have to reverse the pick guard and the string order. You also need a different nut for the strings to fit through. Once the work is completed there is a peculiar look to the guitar, but at least it is playable.Electric guitars have controls and shifters that have to be adjusted at a moment’s notice. Trying to modify all of the knobs and shifts of a regular right hand Electric Guitar for a left handed player requires time and money.Amazingly there are some people who think left handers can just learn to play the guitar using their non dominant hand. This is even more frustrating and unless you are truly ambidextrous it is not worth the effort.Left hand guitars are harder to locate because fewer are produced. Standard guitar models for right handers are easily found; these are mass produced and sold at a lower cost. There are fewer made for left handed guitarists. This means that the base selling price has to be higher in order for the manufacturer make a profitThere are many musical geniuses who have rocked the world using a left handed playing style. Among these innovative musicians are people like Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Dick Dale. At last major companies like Gibson, Martin and Yamaha are beginning to respond to the demand with more left hand guitars. Left hand guitar guides are also easier to find online at forums, auctions and specialty stores.

Fender Presents: Getting Started on Electric Guitar — A Guide for Beginners $14.23 Over 3 hours long with 50 interactive guitar lessons on DVD. Covers tuning, essential chords and scales, music reference, practice tips, rhythm techniques, play-along tracks with a band, 3-D fretboard graphics, instrument care, and more. Includes 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German. Hosted by Keith Wyatt of the Musicians Institute….

Left Hand Brand $15.98 …

Children’s Guitar Method 1 $12.72 Does your child want to learn to play the guitar? Children’s Guitar Method is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning, this method integrates chord playing with note reading. The student begins with simplified single-finger chord forms and strums as accompaniment to numerous well-known songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced…

All Star Bass Series: Left Hand Technique …

GCH Guitar Academy, Left Handed Guitar Course: Years 1 and 2 – Beginners to Intermediate Plus …

eMedia Guitar Method v5 $59.95 The latest version of the world’s best-selling beginning guitar CD-ROM! 165 comprehensive full-screen lessons cover everything from the basics to chord strumming, playing melodies, and fingerpicking. New interactive feedback on melodies and interactive quizzes help make learning tablature and music notation easy. Covers folk, blues, classical and rock styles, including a modern rock chapter with v…

Kurt Cobain ‘Left Handed’ Charcoal T-shirt Kurt Cobain very cool ‘Left Handed’ guitar t-shirt is printed with the instructions for the guitar that he ordered, with his name scrawled above in yellow. Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nirvana. With the lead single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ from Nirvana’s album Nevermind, he entered entered into a n…

Picture Chord Encyclopedia for Left Handed Guitarists: 6 inch. x 9 inch. Edition $9.56 At long last, the ultimate reference for left-handed musicians has arrived. The Picture Chord Encyclopedia is an amazing book featuring photos and diagrams for over 2600 guitar chords specifically shown for the left-handed player. It includes easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see photos, basic chord theory, basic fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set for…

Left-Handed Guitar: The Complete Method $8.67 Attention all Southpaws, it’s time to turn your playing around! We’re proud to announce that our groundbreaking guitar method solely devoted to lefties is now available with a CD! Complete with photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player, this book/CD pack teaches fundamentals such as chords, scales, riffs, strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tunin…

The Keyboardist’s Picture Chord Encyclopedia (Piano Book) $10.05 Every chord you’ll ever need to play shown clearly in diagrams and notation. Special selection on inversions, substitutions, chord voicings and progressions….