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Playing right handed guitar left handed, with strings flipped? (self.Guitar)

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Hey guys, i'm just starting out on guitar, and was wonder if the hendrix style of using a right handed guitar with switched strings is feasible for a left handed beginner? Any feedback really appreciated, thanks.

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[–]themanifoldcuriosity 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (21子コメント)

You're literally asking if something you have already seen is totally feasible... is feasible.

How do people like you survive?

[–]Fusm6 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Ignorance is bliss. Maybe he didn't know quit being a a dick you prick

[–]themanifoldcuriosity -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm tipping this for "Retarded Comment of the Day". If he can can literally see Jimi Hendrix doing it, then that tells him it's feasible.

Maybe if you spent less like being a massive prick yourself and more time actually thinking about the things you read, you would have grasped that.

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    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Well to be fair Hendrix did it out of necessity

    What does that have to do with anything I said? My point is that if you can see someone doing something, then obviously it can be done. Hendrix was just an average guy playing a normal guitar. Anyone given enough time and effort can do what he did.

    In this day and age most guitars are available in left handed versions

    Except they're not, are they? Otherwise you wouldn't get people asking questions like this.

    so I feel like if someone wants to go through the process of restringing a guitar for lefty, it's probably for looks.

    [Facepalm]

    [–]uncadul 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Jimi him no average guy. You no rape him English, you rape him reality. Sir.

    [–]badbadmikeFender/PRS/Egnater -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    "was wonder[ing] if the hendrix style of using a right handed guitar with switched strings is feasible for a left handed beginner?"

    Read the post again genius. BTW, "feasible" does not mean "possible".

    Oh, and the answer is no. You cannot just restring the guitar left-handed, and go at it. Depending on the instrument, it'll need a setup at the very least, if not new hardware.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Why are people here so eager to make complete and utter muppets out of themselves?

    Oh, and the answer is no. You cannot just restring the guitar left-handed

    It is entirely possible. All you have to do is take the nut off and put it back on the other way around. That would take a friendly neighbourhood guitar tech all of half an hour to pull off.

    [–]the_mighty_moon_worm 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Hour and a half? Try five minutes.

    Just knock it off, glue it right back on, put a C clamp on it and let it dry.

    But, being a left handed guitarist, I can tell you that OP won't even have to do that. If you're a beginner you won't even notice, I didn't.

    [–]badbadmikeFender/PRS/Egnater -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    It won't be as simple as turning the nut around. Nuts are typically not perfectly symmetrical save for the slots. The bridge will require some work as well. Neither will be a trivial matter for a beginner.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    What part of "He'd take it to a guitar tech and be done half an hour later" passed you by?

    This is a trivial job and eminently feasible. Don't really understand what you think you're getting out of trying to argue against something any idiot can see is true.

    [–]badbadmikeFender/PRS/Egnater -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Wow, I didn't realize I was responding to you. You're really not my kind of person.

    Here's the thing - your responses in this post are nearly all demonstrably false. You obviously have no standing to be offering advice to beginning guitar players. Go find a beginners forum and read. Come back when you've learned even half as much as your arrogance suggests, and you might actually be helpful. Then again, I'm guessing you don't possess that kind of discipline.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Here's the thing - your responses in this post are nearly all demonstrably false.

    And yet, where is that demonstration? You haven't provided it. Meanwhile, I have an actual left-handed guitarist backing me up on that point - and several dictionaries backing me up on the other. What do you have?

    And that "Go away and find me the mystical piece of information that proves my argument, but which I for some reason cannot show you here" technique is hacky bullshit from 1997 or something. I'd say I expected better from you, but...

    [–]Seth39195 -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Feasible doesn't mean able to be done.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Feasible doesn't mean able to be done.

    That is literally the exact meaning of that word.

    [–]Seth39195 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    No it isn't. Feasible means able to be done easily or practically. OP was asking if it is practical to play that way.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    No, it just means "able to be done", like that link said.

    As does this one. And this one..

    And if you check the etymology, you'll see no implication of easiness or difficulty in the root of that word. Just the part to do with "doing".

    And at any rate, your point is moot anyway: For a beginner, playing a right handed guitar upside down is no more difficult than playing it right way up.

    [–]Seth39195 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Every link you provided includes a definition that refers to feasible meaning logical, which is probably what OP meant. Also the point is not moot, as it has nothing to do with OP. My point is that you are being a dick for no reason.

    [–]themanifoldcuriosity 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Every link you provided includes a definition that refers to feasible meaning logical...

    • "capable of being done, effected, or accomplished"
    • "Capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible."
    • "capable of being done or carried out"

    It seems from those definitions that it's referring to feasible meaning "capable of being done, effected or accomplished". If OP meant "feasible" as in logical, then that would only mean that he, like you, do not know what one or both of those things means.

    My point is that you are being a dick for no reason.

    That's not your point. That's you being butthurt at trying to be pedantic and failing horribly, and then needing some way to hit back. But unfortunately, there is no way for you to do this, except by making an idiot of yourself. Which seems to be how you're going about things. Good luck with that.

    [–]Seth39195 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Definition 1
    Definition 3
    Words can have several definitions and in this case both of these well-respected dictionaries list definitions that refer to the ease or convenience of doing something. OP obviously, as you so astutely pointed out, knows that it can be done; the most logical thing to assume is that he was asking if it is easy or convenient. Perhaps instead of assuming that random strangers are dumb, you should try to be kind.

    [–]AwkBoss 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Since some left handed guitars are a little tricky to come by these days, this is pretty feasible. As long as you don't mind the controls being at the top instead of the bottom.

    [–]NubadopolisStrat & G&L ASAT/Blues Deluxe & Tech 21 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    False. Plenty of lefty companies out there. Just gotta look.

    /r/leftyguitarists will help you out my friend.

    [–]AwkBoss 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    What I meant, which I should've stated, was in actual shops. You can find lefty anything online, but you can't tell me that the availability of lefties in an actual shop is equal to the availability of righties.

    [–]NubadopolisStrat & G&L ASAT/Blues Deluxe & Tech 21 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    In a majority of the regular guitar shops, yes the lefty selection is pretty abysmal. There are a few shops that are specific to us lefties. I'm fortunate enough to live close to one of them: Southpaw Guitars in Houston.

    But yes, generally the lefty selection in most shops suck. Buying online is a crapshoot especially if you can't try before you buy.

    [–]superdara3000 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Hey, I'm a lefty myself and I've done it afew times. Just afew things to be aware of:

    1. You'll need to change or adjust the nut on your guitar to accommodate the thicker strings on one side and thinner on the other. Also the bridge well need readjusted and reintonated but those arent big deals.

    2. As AwkBoss said, the controls will be up in your way abit, in the way of your picking hand, depending on the guitar that can be very annoying or no big deal.

    3. Access to the upper frets will be restricted as most guitars, strats for example have a longer horn on the top and shorter on the bottom.

    But as a lefty I understand left handed guitars are very hard to come by so this may be the best way.

    [–]bfkill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    i always wondered about this: won't also have to rotate the pickups 180º?

    [–]jmartygFender|Jay Turser|Partscasters 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    No.

    [–]bfkill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    why is that? in its 'normal' configuration the high E string is above a part of the pickup that will now be above the low E, why doesn't it matter?

    not doubting you, just would like to understand it better :)

    [–]jmartygFender|Jay Turser|Partscasters 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Since Hendrix was used as a comparison; strat pickups physically will not fit in backwards. Also, the poll piece stagger, if the pickup has it, is most likely incorrect(designed for a wound G string) or symmetrical so it doesn't matter anyway (Fender MIM Standard).

    Humbuckers usually have one row of adjustable polls and one non. It's more important to install them front to back, so again, those are not rotated 180 for a lefty.

    [–]superdara3000 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    No, pickups aren't designed like that. It wont effect your sound.

    That being said, because hendrix played upside down and the bridge pickup on a strat is slanted some people attribute that to his unique sound.

    [–]watteva 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    You'll need to put a new nut, cut for left handed strings on.

    Other than that the tonly downside is that it will be less comfortable to play due to the body contours being the wrong way around and there's no side neck markers on the other side of the neck.

    [–]khmr33 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    You're probably better off with a lefty Strat or Tele... a MIM used or a new Squire will cost less than a righty plus the work required to make it lefty.

    [–]LLEADD 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It's very difficult if not impossible to play above the 17th/18th fret. I think Hendrix rarely played this high (no pun) and when he did his long fingers helped. Flip the strat if that's all you have and make your first purchased guitar a lefty. I'm a lefty.

    [–]coolcucumber13 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I'm a lefty... and it kinda sucks. I would try to play righty if I were you. But if you still want to play lefty there are guitars out there you to try acoustic and electric. If it's your first guitar I wouldn't flip because it may inhibit learning properly. If you do flip take the guitar somewhere to be worked on if you aren't great with tools. Southpawguitars is good, and you can get guitar center to ship a guitar to a store if you want to try it. and if a lefty has been sitting a while at gc you could probably get a discount. Good luck.

    [–]StrangeSitch 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    My best friend bought a lefthanded strat and tried to do the same thing but the knobs on the wrong side were bugging him so he just gave me the guitar and I love it (I'm lefty so no problems for me, just had to buy a new nut.)

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      [–]watteva 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

      He's not saying there's a benefit, maybe that's the only guitar he has access to?

      [–]Leodhas 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I completely misread