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The complication of taking left handed guitar lessons is one that 90% of guitar players never have to face.   

No worries, being left handed makes you very adaptable! You could even have the upper hand. Research at University College London has indicated that left handed people as a group have developed an above average level of high achievers. Prominence in the sphere of sport and the arts is specifically evident. So maybe you might have the edge when it comes to your left handed guitar lessons.The important factor is to be sure you have a really good guitar tutor. 

There are countless extremely talented and renowned guitar players who have travelled the learning process before you. Jimmy Hendrix, Sir Paul McCartney, Tony Lommi and Mark Knopfler who is  left handed but plays his guitar right handed, to name but a few. 

There is a difficult question for you to put to yourself before you can begin your left handed guitar lessons. Should I play guitar left handed or should I try right handed? That could appear a daft question. But when you look around maybe as many as fifty percent of the normally left handed guitar players find it best to play their guitars right handed. Although left handed lots of people have an amount of ambidexterity. Just what is the level of your handedness dominance? 

The first guidance you will receive as a complete beginner with your left handed guitar lessons is to initially try  to play right handed! There is good reason for this Just about everything for guitar is geared up for the right handed player.Obviously the bulk of guitars are right handed and most learning resources are directed towards right handed players. 

It is worth continuing with this for two or three weeks but if after a fair try you still find difficulty in either strumming right handed or fretting the correct string left handed then go on to your left handed guitar lessons. 

Many students starting to play the guitar find that at first they get very sore guitar fingers! If your fingers start to crack or hurt it is best to stop playing for a while to let your sore fingers heal. They soon toughen up as you continue to play your guitar.. 

Now you will have to source a left handed guitar or, alternatively, you can flip the guitar and restring your right handed guitar in reverse with the thickest string at the top again. Not ideal but by far the cheapest way and if you see pictures of Jimmy Hendrix and his guitar – that’s how he preferred to play it! 

For your left handed guitar lessons the resources used are pretty much the same as for right handed players. The variation will be your reading of the visual elements which you will need to reverse. Left handed people have to address this problem in many areas of their lives and hardly ever find it a problem and will capture the material with no more problem than their right handed counterparts. 

Sitting in front of a teacher or using recorded video footage presents no real problem as the left handed player will be viewing an exact mirror image of the actions they will themselves perform on their guitar. 

There are great advantages for those taking left handed guitar lessons in putting some money into a comprehensive home study course. Recognising there may be an initial challenge as you get the measure of chord positioning and reading tablature the option to repeat any element in a home study course at will is a feature worth looking at. 

The question often gets asked can you self teach guitar from a home study course? The number of such courses that are purchased today certainly suggests that the probability of success is there for those that take action and give it a try!   

As soon as you know the time is right and the opportunity is there then if you have been using a flipped guitar replace it with a dedicated left hand model. When that time comes your left handed guitar lessons will really take off and your pleasure at playing the guitar will take off too!