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    Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:04
anyone know of any left handed proggers? left handedness isnt as prominent in prog i noticed, what with mccartney, hendrix and cobain all famous leftys.
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haha what horrible grammer i have nothing fits together
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Points: 75 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:18
i just read in an interview on the king crimson website that fripp is left-handed (but plays right-handed). im in that same boat, so when i found that out i was pleased.
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Points: 89 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:21
im a left and can play left handed, right handed, and left handed with guitar strings upside down
its nice to know im not alone out there in the world haha
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its weird, sometimes i try to play my guitar upside down, with my right hand fretting, its absolutley atrocious.
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Points: 89 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:28
it astounds people when i get bored of playing left handed and just take a right handed guitar and start playing upside down relatively good, sometimes i can even transition between power chords and barre chords to regular chords quicker and cleaner, its weird. im still quite bad at playing right handed. its strange knowing everything, yet it doesnt work haha. its almost surreal. you konw what the chord should soudn like, but then its wrong becuase i dont have the strength or the finesse in my left hand to do barre chords or such things as that. and my right handed picking...... well i wont mention that haha
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Points: 75 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:36
yeah, thats the problem for me too i think, is the right hand. its important of course because thats where the sound is being produced. yuo can come up with some pretty useful exercises though.
I begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly di-rected straight.. at.. meeeeeeeeee!
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are you left or right handed?
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left. and my right hand is all messed up, the middle finger is bending backwards at the top joint, and my ring finger was almost bitten off at the tip by a rabbit when i was like 5, and its scarred up a little bit. also the pinky finger of my left hand is a lot more stout and capable of fretting moreso than my right one, so i think playing guitar right handed is the only way i could really do it.

man, im having a hard time typing, its so late.


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Points: 89 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 02:46
haha i always have a hard time typing, im more of a handwriter,typing just pisses me off because i type too fast and always screw up and have to backspace and such. and the fact that its also late.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 06:08
I think this has already been said but I read that Robert Fripp was a left handedplayerthat tought himself to play right handed.
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