Author: ned
Date: 2018-04-05 13:46
kdk wrote: ''...But do you reverse the strings, or does the E string end up on the bottom when you reverse the guitar?...''
As a matter of fact I do reverse the whole box and dice, with the bass string on the bottom. This is the fallout from having been banned by my older brother (50+ years ago) from mucking about with his new acoustic guitar. What a challenge for a fourteen year old!
I merely turned the whole thing around the other way and learnt the chord positions, as shown on the chord sheet he got with the guitar, and strummed away. Nobody told me it was wrong, or incorrect, or bad technique or, whatever, and I went on to be able to strum away reasonably proficiently as a rhythm guitarist. He never ever knew that I had circumvented his ban and was surprised when I told him only a few years ago. So, from that point I locked myself in as an upside down lefty, as early learned habits are hard to break.
More recently I started playing steel guitar which has a more of a solo or single string emphasis and that's been a challenge as well. When you think of it though - with the the bass string on the bottom, it approximates (in my mind) the location of the bass keys on the piano - to the left and away from me - I hope that makes sense. In other words, little fingers LH play bass on the piano and also on my version of the guitar.
Funnily enough, as I have been writing this stuff, it occurred to me that the so-called right hand clarinet fits me perfectly. I reckon it's called RH simply because the bloke (many people really, of course) who set up the keywork probably set it up to suit their particular handedness.
I have a dominant LH and in addition, I regard the top joint of the clarinet, the high notes if you like, as the ''starting point'' and, so, I could just as easily call it a left-handed clarinet. This is the result you can get from being a self trained player.
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