why are there "chord books" for left handed guitarists?

[samal50]

Are fingering patterns for the same chords as right handed guitars actually different for left handed guitarists?

[1001gear]

That is a question better left for particle physicists.

[jtr654]

Same shape for both.

 

[Freeman Keller]

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.

[t_e_l_e]

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

[Chordite]

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.

[t_e_l_e]

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

[Grant Harding]

They might sell an optional mirror for lefties.

[badpenguin]

Why not a book for lefties? Anything to make money for the publisher.