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Guitar Mania - Playing it Left Handed
Consider that almost ninety percent of the world’s population is born right handed. Meaning, they use their right hands more often than the left one. Their right hand is responsible for important everyday activities like writing. And where does this leave the lefties? Basically, vice versa.
In the music industry, a small minority of musicians are left-handed. Though some notable and famous performers are born lefties. Personalities like Jimi Hendrix and Dan Seals played left-handed. Is this much of a surprise? Other artists who are left-handed switch the guitar’s string for their own benefit.
How do lefties go about playing a guitar custom made for the right handed?
If you have overcame the idea of quitting, and you are among the left-handed who try so hard learning to play it your way, might as well read attentively. This can help you figure out what to do. You can actually do two things: first, you can switch the strings or you can choose to play the guitar upside down. Sounds funny? It’s a fact and pretty much effective.
Some write-ups stated it is way difficult and outrageous to create notes with a guitar positioned upside down. While others believe nothing is impossible if you try really hard and put your heart into it. The idea of rotating the guitar and operating it backwards can be accepted and used.
Using the basic chords, a left-handed player can place his fingers on the same set of strings only that it has to be put the other way around but with the same basic strings. Regardless of how accustomed people are when it comes to playing a guitar right handed, some left handed guitarists have introduced newer methods.
To start with, you should equip yourself with a guitar guide or manual. Playing with an upside down guitar doesn’t necessarily mean changing the mode of how fingering should be. The placement of your fingers would still be the same although the only difference would rely on the finger you use on the fret of the guitar. Normally, if you would play a right handed guitar right handed, the C would represent that your fourth finger must be positioned at the third fret dipping on the fifth string. Then your third finger must lie on the second fret pressing on the fourth string. Last, your index finger must be on the first fret down on the second string.
With an inverted guitar for lefties, it should be done in an inverted way too. Noting that your last string would be on top and the fret would remain the same. Things are difficult if you have no guitar to practice with. Make it a point that you follow what the diagram shows and not making the mistake of strumming the forbidden strings in each chord.
This type of technique is difficult, indeed. So start with those chords that only require three or three fingers at the moment. Basic chords like CAGED or some minor details. When you get the hang on it, try working on the harder ones. Do not saturate yourself with learning the hard ones first. That would be enough reason for you to give up. Frustrated.
But if you find it really hard to cope with this kind of style, settle with the conventional way of playing. That is, playing a right handed guitar right handed even though you’re left handed.
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Why do mirrors switch left-right and not top-bottom?
Why do mirrors switch left-right and not top-bottom? Why do ambulances write "Ambulance" backwards rather than upside-down?
I won "Best Answer" for answering this kind of question about a month ago. Here is a slightly modified part of that answer:
I confronted myself in my bathroom mirror; as a result, I offer the following analysis.
Looking in the mirror with my recognizable bathroom and bedroom beyond "in its depths," I imagined myself being the person in the mirror examining how all things were treated as they appeared in or were "transformed" in the "mirror world." Walls, floor, ceiling all continued into the mirror world, but the things furthest behind me in my world were now the furthest in, in mirror world.
It's like holding out an infinitely thin sweater by the sleeves, front upwards, and then turning it iside out, away from you. The right sleeve becomes the "left" one and vice-versa --- try it! And yet the front of the sweater, held flat, upwards, remains upwards during this process. So, the left-rightness of this "mirror inversion" appears to "switch left and right," but doesn't affect "up" and "down," in this EXPLICIT, practical example.
I think this is the nub of the answer, but there are further implications found by examining mirror world a bit more carefully.
If you now start looking around in mirror world, you notice a remarkable thing: the left-right interchange is not just for your own mirror image, it's true for EVERYTHING. Looking straight into the mirror, this is hardly surprising: the edge of a picture I could just see through the door, behind my real world left hand, was now behind the "right-hand" of mirror man (MM).
I then turned, to look to the side, parallel to the mirror. In the real world, there was my toilet, just beyond and below the far edge of the mirror. (You may not wish to know that.) A corner shelf was to my right.
Mirror man disagreed, and pointed out in rather strong and critical language that I had it all wrong. He asked me to look at the situation from his point of view. I had to reluctantly agree. His toilet was to the right; his corner shelf was to the left!
This meant that no matter in what direction mirror man looked, while standing on the projection of my floor, EVERYTHING had a left-right switch, no matter in which direction he turned.
I confess that I found this remarkable. It meant that the "sweater-like inside-outness" applied to everything, to depth in the mirror, sideways, in fact turning around and looking in any direction. It's an INTRINSIC property of mirror world, without altering the way gravity operates --- that still pulled mirror man to the floor.
I decided to take what mirror man had told me lying down, on my right side, parallel to the mirror. Gravity pulled me to my "right"; but it pulled mirror man to HIS left, though physically it was still downwards.
What did all this mean, mathematically?
It meant that if a set of coordinate axes (O, x, y, z) in my world had their origin O in the silver reflecting surface of the glass mirror, with Ox horizontal to the left, Oy straight out at me, and Oz vertical, then in mirror man's world those same axes, for him, would be Ox', - Oy', and Oz'. The - Oy' is the mathematical consequence of the "sweater inside out effect" perpendicularly to the mirror surface. It's the ONLY one that's changed.
In my world, my axes form a "right-hand screw set (RHSS)." It's responsible for advanced physics students screwing up their hands and faces as they try to imagine which way a vector cross-product points, the direction of the Coriolis effect, in which direction a tipped-over gyroscope will precess, or which way a moving particle will be deviated in a magnetic field.
But mirror man lives in a world governed by a "left-hand screw rule." When I stand, doing my physics student thing in front of the mirror, my right-hand screw rule demonstration becomes mirror man's left-hand screw rule demo. I do it with my right-hand; he does it with his "left-hand."
So: ALL of the strange effects described come about from just one simple transformation, the "flipping" of all the coordinates normal to the mirror so that y ---> - y'. This DOESN'T change the direction of the x- and z- axes, but it does imply a change from an RHSS world into an LHSS world, or an "everything horizontally inside-out" world.
And THAT'S finally WHY: When you look in the mirror ... left becomes right and right becomes left ... but the top and bottom aren't reversed as well.
It's also why ambulances write "Ambulance" backwards rather than upside-down.
Live long and prosper.