Help! I need help fast!!

[brokenvail]

Ok, so Mrs V has been wanting to learn how to play guitar and has been asking me on and off for 12 years to teach her. Finally last week I decide to show her a thing or two. I sat her down grabbed the SS and put it in her lap I showed her a few chords which she played perfectly then she said it makes her left hand hurt. That is to be expected right? I mean she has never played before and needs to build all the muscles. Then she does the unthinkable. She takes the guitar and flips it ala Jimmy H and says wow this is way my comfortable my right hand won't hurt if I play the chords with it . I just stodd there. She is not lefty...and didn't even have her holding a pic yet. It was just her using her thumb. What the heck do I do? Was there any lefty subs? I pulled out my first guitar yesterday to string it lefty so she could try and the nut snapped (been un used for years)

What do I do? String a righty lefty for while to make she she likes it before buyin a lefty? Should I just buy the lefty or should I puch the righty issue a little more. HELP

 

[ScoobySteve]

Tell her there is no such thing as lefty guitars, that it is a mystical fabrication enforced by our social P.C. to allow equal treatments for those who are not able to play instruments in the standard way.

Then proceed to teach her the right handed way.

On a more serious note, there are a few knuckleheads here who are lefty's but have accustomed themselves to play normally, so I assume the transition the other way wouldn't be so drastic, considering its more comfortable to her.

Also do her fingers hurt cause its the first time fretting a stringed instrument and there aren't any callouses yet?

 

[Voo]

as a lefty that does play righty I recommend you teach her endurance and strength runs, or you could find a support group for yourself and let her play lefty

 

[Roubster]

I think the easiest way to MAKE her play the PROPER way, is to let her know that she wont have as many options to play cool guitars in left handed versions. Plus they look really weird .

 

[phatduckk]

ya try something like "honey, if you play the wrong way you'll never be able to borrow any of my awesome guitars". see how that works out

good luck

 

[Sweat]

ya try something like "honey, if you play the wrong way you'll never be able to borrow any of my awesome guitars". see how that works out

good luck

LOL thats funny but Otto man if she is comfortable that way let her go at it. Never force someone to do i a different way, i am a natural lefty who felt comfortable playing right handed, never could get comfortable playing lefty.

Find her a cheap lefty guitar to start with and if she continues to play find her a used lefty Silo Special.

 

[Slav123]

How about starting her off with an acoustic guitar strung up lefty?

Slav

 

[Voo]

Yeah she wont get to play your cool ones, she will have gas for her own

 

[leftyguitarblue]

I f-ing hate lefties...

 

[Slav123]

You could also pre-order her a lefty Xerophthalmias

I have been hearing alot of good things about it...

Slav

 

[brasco68]

How about starting her off with an acoustic guitar strung up lefty?

Slav

But...get a cheap lefty acoustic..(they are out there) Let her build strength in the hands and wrist, but also so see if she will stick with it before throwing down even more cash on a Sub.

 

[brokenvail]

Yea, I am thinking I will either find a cheap lefty or restring my first guitar lefty to make sure she wants to go that route if she does then later I will kick out for a lefty for her other wise maybe she will switch to the the right way and play righty and then I can buy her cool guitars that I would borrow

 

[jamminjim]

I've seen lots of left hand guitars for sale on ebay for realatively cheap prices.

 

[Jack FFR1846]

I f-ing hate lefties...

Ah, now....that's the Connecticut Pizza talking, man.

 

[JasonT]

Personally, i would strongly suggest that you encourage her to learn righty. I'm right-handed and when I first picked up a guitar, it felt more comfortable to me to hold it as a lefty, with my good hand fretting the notes. Fortunately, I was convinced to learn righty. Everything feels odd when learning in the beginning. Do both of you a favor and encourage her to learn righty.

 

[Dante]

considering how women generally aren't overly obsessed with technical playing, ultra-fine right hand accuracy isn't that critical. a few blues players play wrong handed cuz the right hand has extra power on tap for awesome bends.

as far as i'm concerned, let her play 15 minutes right handed and 15 minutes wrong handed each day, to see which prevails.

and to all of you with the lefty jokes: grow the heck up. that kind of attitude is under any standards. especially between guitar players, where lefties are not seldom great artists. ok?

 

[Hakan]

A cheap nylon acustic with changed strings (lefty) would help to findout which way is better but you say she is not lefty so normal way is always better in my opinion. Maybe after a while, she feel the same pain after her muscles get tired while playing lefty.

 

[brokenvail]

Great tips guys!

 

[jamminjim]

considering how women generally aren't overly obsessed with technical playing

Wow, what a sexist statement. How do you know this?

and to all of you with the lefty jokes: grow the heck up. that kind of attitude is under any standards. especially between guitar players, where lefties are not seldom great artists. ok?

Maybe you should take a look at this, there have been lots of great and famous lefties. No need to be so serious man. List of musicians who play left handed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

......

 

[Dante]

i'm always serious when it comes to some things. when everyone including minorities take stuff like discrimination jokingly, it can end badly.

when i said that about women, i took it from a statistical standpoint. maybe the market is sexist and doesn't care about women shredders, but i can only name the great kat(...) and jennifer batten on the technical camp of things, while male shredders exist in overdeed of abundance.

and i will go so far as to assume everyone knows what seldom means... or maybe i misunderstood.

it's not just lefties, it's not racism, it's not sexism. it's all of them, which in fact, are one and the same monkey instinct.

i'm not angry, i'm just saying.