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Thursday, December 18, 2008

You can play the Guitar with your Left Hand

By Jeffery Collins

Many left handed people have their challenges. See a lot of products that you see were not designed for left handed people. For example, a regular guitar.

Left handed guitars are available, but can be hard to find. Most of the major manufacturer make left handed guitars but many music stores do not carry them on a regular basis. You may have to special order your guitar if you are after a specific style and brand.

The left handed guitar is basically a reversed, or mirrored image of a regular right handed guitar. The guitar strings are just reversed. The downside is that left handed guitars tend to cost a little more than a regular guitar. You have your choice of many styles and manufacturers though.

Until recent times it was rather difficult to find a decent left hand guitar, and certainly difficult to find one that you really liked and that suited your playing style. However checking many online stores now will reveal more choices than ever.

If you are learning to play the guitar and are left handed it will be a little hard to learn because of the lack of teachers that teach left handed. If you find one book them early because they tend to get booked fast.

Something else you can do is find a dvd or online course that is desinged for left handed guitar players. You can learn from an online course easily. The online videos do not get tired of explaining the same thing over and over. You can learn anytime of the day and your computer will not lost their cool with you.

It is hard learning to play the left handed guitar but you will stand out as a left handed guitarists and you can show others your talent.

Find the right left handed acoustic guitar is going to be easy now that you have online stores.

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