should i play left-handed or right-handed guitar

[guitarherofreak222]

i recently started guitar lessons on the acoustic and i'm a lefty. now having to re-string every guitar i get can be very annoying so since i'm not that far in guitar i decided to give the right hand a shot. the thing is i'm a lot better left-handed and i struggle with the right-hand but i think i can get used to it. the left handed position is a lot more comfortable and the right handed posisition feels really wierd but when i go on to electric i can find a right handed guitar a lot easier and a lot cheaper especially where i live (greece). also with the right hand i can play at other peoples houses snce most people are right handed and when i'm playing with someone else our guitars will crash into eachother since most people are right handed. so what do you guys think? should i go with the left hand which is a lot easier for me and more comfortable or should i go with the right hand since it'll be so much easier for me later on in life?

[navaha42]

Left hand. Either that, or train BOTH hands, and become ambidexterous!!! :D

[Mystlyfe77]

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[HMXDave]

If you're left handed, you should definitely play lefty.

[Bonez]

If you're left handed, you should definitely play lefty.

That's not necessarily true though. I'm left-handed, but I play right-handed, and I know a right-handed person who plays left-handed. Playing left-handed just feels awkward for me personally, and that's what it really boils down to...what feels natural.

[kanrei]

I am lefthanded as well and when I tried to learn guitar, I tried on a right handed guitar and it was impossible for me. I had to think about both hands constantly (left with fingers and right with strumming) where as I feel that I would have learned better if I had tried left handed. Ironically, I play Rock Band right handed, but I think that is because I only have one string to worry about strumming so I can fully concentrate on my fingers.

[maitee1]

buy a left-handed guitar

[culturedog]

I'm a lefty, so I'm biased - but play lefty!

[HMXDave]

That's not necessarily true though. I'm left-handed, but I play right-handed, and I know a right-handed person who plays left-handed. Playing left-handed just feels awkward for me personally, and that's what it really boils down to...what feels natural.

Very true. But he already said he feels more comfortable playing lefty.


I guess I shouldn't have used such a blanket statement.

[Stewie]

i recently started guitar lessons on the acoustic and i'm a lefty. now having to re-string every guitar i get can be very annoying so since i'm not that far in guitar i decided to give the right hand a shot. the thing is i'm a lot better left-handed and i struggle with the right-hand but i think i can get used to it. the left handed position is a lot more comfortable and the right handed posisition feels really wierd but when i go on to electric i can find a right handed guitar a lot easier and a lot cheaper especially where i live (greece). also with the right hand i can play at other peoples houses snce most people are right handed and when i'm playing with someone else our guitars will crash into eachother since most people are right handed. so what do you guys think? should i go with the left hand which is a lot easier for me and more comfortable or should i go with the right hand since it'll be so much easier for me later on in life?

I write left handed but I'm kind of ambi. (I write lefty but do sports and stuff righty) When I played guitar for a class in high school years ago I played righty. And I play guitar righty in RB2. But do what ever is more comfortable for you.

[theantkid12]

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