Members samal50 Posted September 16, 2017 Members Share Posted September 16, 2017 Are fingering patterns for the same chords as right handed guitars actually different for left handed guitarists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted September 16, 2017 Members Share Posted September 16, 2017 That is a question better left for particle physicists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jtr654 Posted September 16, 2017 Members Share Posted September 16, 2017 Same shape for both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted September 16, 2017 Members Share Posted September 16, 2017 Two ways to play left handed - mirror image of right (Hendrix, T_e_l_e) or upside down and backwards (Libby Cotten) Chord forms are (usually) the same, how you form them may be different. How you pick them (in the latter case) will be very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t_e_l_e Posted September 17, 2017 Members Share Posted September 17, 2017 are there different chord books? *wonders* for normal right handed chords, a lefty needs to do a mirroring in his head, which became somehow automatic and unconscious to me so i never really cared. i learned playing guitar with a righty friend and looking at him what he played became automatically mirrored and somehow natural to me. but after 20+ playing left handed, looking at another lefty player or a lefty guitar still somehow looks weird to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted September 17, 2017 Members Share Posted September 17, 2017 I'm guessing that for a lefty sitting face to face with a righty instructor gives a perfect mirroring, better in fact than another righty would get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t_e_l_e Posted September 17, 2017 Members Share Posted September 17, 2017 yep, and never the shoulder is in the way, so you could easilysit on the same bench and turn just to each other and everybody can see what the other is playing, and the necks do not get in the way... for me learning and playing like this was a win-win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted September 18, 2017 Members Share Posted September 18, 2017 They might sell an optional mirror for lefties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 18, 2017 Members Share Posted September 18, 2017 Why not a book for lefties? Anything to make money for the publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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