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LeonH |
It occurred to me about seven or eight years ago (when I had an urge to learn guitar) that, in addition to a general lack of talent, my lefthandedness was a bit of a handicap in playing my right-hand guitar. Other priorities took over and I quit within a few months.
Now, a few years later, I am trying to learn banjo ... also right-handed. I hear experienced pickers of both guitar and banjo say "It's a two-handed operation ... There's no point in learning to play left-handed. However, I can't remember any LEFT-HANDED person ever telling me that,.
So ... I am GOING TO play right-handed, but It surely seems to me that I have some challenges that the average person learning to pick in his 'natural' hand doesn't encounter. I'm just wondering if other southpaws have any thoughts/ ideas on this challenge.
One thing I have done ... intermittently since the guitar fiasco a few years ago ... is to learn to write right-handed. I see a lot of similarity in the development of my right hand writing skills and right-hand picking skills.
One notable similarity is that there is a bit of warmup required with either effort. Also, the developed skills are very 'narrow'. If I move the banjo or my writing tablet from the optimal position, the music or the handwriting ceases to resemble that which I intended.
Anyway ... I welcome your thoughts.
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Incidentally, I am trying to learn Scruggs-style. ... although it seems blasphemous to associate the noises I make with Earl Scruggs.
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