I have to make a confession to the forum - I am a sinister man. As opposed to dexter. That is to say, I am left-handed.
When I was younger I tried to learn the guitar. After mulling it over, I decided to learn the guitar right handed. That way, I presumed, I would be able to lend my guitar to other people, or borrow someone else's guitar and play it.
After a year or so I got generally proficient with my left hand on the fret board, but I noticed that my right hand struggled with anything other than strums. Finger-picking or flat-picking scales & arpeggios any faster than 40 BPM was a disaster.
One day I decided to switch, and restrung my guitar lefty. I immediately noticed an improvement with finger-picking & flat-picking. But when I tried to make my right hand finger chords, my hand simply didn't know what to do, and my head swam when I tried to figure out what the left-handed chord shapes should be.
The experiment lasted about two weeks. I restrung my guitar, confined to struggle to improve, and eventually slid it under my bed where it remained for many years.
Now I'm kicking around the idea of picking up a baritone uke, and I can't decide if I should get a righty or a lefty.
What does the prevailing wisdom of the forum say?
When I was younger I tried to learn the guitar. After mulling it over, I decided to learn the guitar right handed. That way, I presumed, I would be able to lend my guitar to other people, or borrow someone else's guitar and play it.
After a year or so I got generally proficient with my left hand on the fret board, but I noticed that my right hand struggled with anything other than strums. Finger-picking or flat-picking scales & arpeggios any faster than 40 BPM was a disaster.
One day I decided to switch, and restrung my guitar lefty. I immediately noticed an improvement with finger-picking & flat-picking. But when I tried to make my right hand finger chords, my hand simply didn't know what to do, and my head swam when I tried to figure out what the left-handed chord shapes should be.
The experiment lasted about two weeks. I restrung my guitar, confined to struggle to improve, and eventually slid it under my bed where it remained for many years.
Now I'm kicking around the idea of picking up a baritone uke, and I can't decide if I should get a righty or a lefty.
What does the prevailing wisdom of the forum say?