Some of you might know, a lot of you won't know, but I played guitar for around 15 years until two of my fingers on my left hand became stiffened and basically unusable due to arthritis, so I had to stop... Now, I've always been naturally left-handed, but was (self-)taught guitar as if I were right handed, so when my left hand packed up, I figured I'd eventually just teach myself to play in a left handed style - no problem right? Ha! Wrong! I've got a left-handed acoustic, but it's so infuriating to know all the chords, to be able to see them in your head and reverse them for the left handed style, but then to find your damn hand won't do what it's told! I feel like I can't even hold the guitar comfortably, just seems wrong and my fingers keep sitting over the strings so I end up muffling half the strings when playing a chord...
I know it's going to take time and patience, but damn, it's frustrating. The worst part is, I can't remember back when I started playing, so have no idea if this was how I felt back then or if I'm having a whole host of new problems.
Anyway, cheers for listening!
I know it's going to take time and patience, but damn, it's frustrating. The worst part is, I can't remember back when I started playing, so have no idea if this was how I felt back then or if I'm having a whole host of new problems.
Anyway, cheers for listening!