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View submission: Anyone playing right handed guitar?
Well I tried finger style guitar first, and my right hand couldn’t make sense of it, so I switched and now I’m so happy I play left handed. Selection is good nowadays too.
In my opinion, if we ever are gonna have hope of even more left handed options and variety, more left handed people actually need to play left handed, but it’s a personal choice.
I’ve always said this, there is a reason why right handed people play the guitar that way, it’s not a coincidence. Fretting hand is sorta harder at the start but your picking hand is so much more important that it overshadows the even slight “advantage” of fretting with your dominant hand.
Comment by Perenially_behind at 10/12/2024 at 16:31 UTC
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My experience echoes yours, though from the other side. Using the dominant hand for fretting wasn't a slight advantage at first, it was a huge advantage. But it led to overusing left-hand articulations and not really working on the right hand. After a few years, getting to the next level required right-hand dexterity that I didn't have. So I plateaued.