Reverse string order?
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Peter Feller
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OK I'll chime in on this one.
I'm a left-handed guitar player, and for about 30 years, I've played left-handed guitars strung right-handed - upside and backwards is the way it's most commonly referred to. Don't ask me why I play that way. I just picked the guitar up that way, and no one bothered to correct me. Anyway, my chord voicings are noticeably different from my fellow guitar players (who always want to kill me, because they can't follow me...). I find that those voicings are a really nice compliment to the standard chord voicings of my my bandmates. And I couldn't acheive that if the guitar was strung correctly. Now that I've taken up steel, I've commited to learn the correct way (still playing left-handed, but strung left-handed). It's a real adjustment, brain-wise, but I wouldn't attempt stringing the guitar any other way (at least, not for another 10 years of practicing...)
pp
I'm a left-handed guitar player, and for about 30 years, I've played left-handed guitars strung right-handed - upside and backwards is the way it's most commonly referred to. Don't ask me why I play that way. I just picked the guitar up that way, and no one bothered to correct me. Anyway, my chord voicings are noticeably different from my fellow guitar players (who always want to kill me, because they can't follow me...). I find that those voicings are a really nice compliment to the standard chord voicings of my my bandmates. And I couldn't acheive that if the guitar was strung correctly. Now that I've taken up steel, I've commited to learn the correct way (still playing left-handed, but strung left-handed). It's a real adjustment, brain-wise, but I wouldn't attempt stringing the guitar any other way (at least, not for another 10 years of practicing...)
pp