Concert Guitar

Right-handers have to learn to play guitar left handed

20th century dictionaries define a guitar as "a stringed instrument played by strumming."

Today, the guitar and can not be defined in this way, such as how to play the guitar has changed dramatically. From about mid-century 20 "guitar" has evolved greatly and has grown to view totally unimaginable for guitarists before this time.

Key to this was the arrival of electric guitar and amplification. And with that, came the players who took these two things and explore the higher realms with them, experiment and adding the efforts and ideas above until 50 years later we have what we have today: a much broader perspective of what it means to "play the guitar" today.

If you think about it, back in the days before electric guitars and amplifiers, what other way was there playing a guitar than "by strum? "Ridiculous now deceased and wine dictionary definition of the time.

In the early days of the electric guitar (1920 and 1930) electric guitars were really just glorified miking acoustic guitars. They played and are treated as if they were acoustic guitars that do not have to hold next to a microphone more. Put yourself in the shoes of the people of those times. That would have been incredibly innovative! You can walk two steps on the guitar and still be heard! Wow!

It would be much later in the 1950s that a new thing that was going to go totally revolutionize the guitar and music as a whole: the invention of the solid body guitar.

During this early era before the 1950s, the guitar has definitely been a tool of the right hand built to be played with the right hand and chords with your left hand fingers. The theory was that the "strong" arm of the player (being right-handed) would be to keep pace so the task was strumming for the right hand. You had to keep time with his strumming. Left Hand technique in those days was limited to the management of the fingers in line and maybe a few barre chords. According to today's standards, this concept is so limited and outdated TV black and white, with tube technology!

So what are we talking about here?

First, you need to cool as to what happened in 1950 and 1960.

Three major property developments happened:

1. The invention of the guitar Solid body. With solid body electric guitars such as Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul electric guitar could not stop playing and listening without of an amplifier. Now you need more than the guitar to be heard, and that new skills to learn.

2. Advances in the amplification were required, and quickly invented or improved to meet the volumes required for large crowds, and bigger concerts and festivals. Advances in the amplification opened the door to progress on the guitar: the use of feedback, deliberately keeping overdrive and distortion. Higher volumes allowed new things possible.

3. Experimenting with sound processing created new "effects" as "wah wah", "delay", "eco", "Tremolo, Phaser, flanger," compression " etc. This made the guitar into an instrument that was now able, through impact, producing all new sounds, or even imagined possible. These new sounds too requires new skills of the guitarist in order to use the extent of these effects.

With these advances came the wave material for new guitarists who were the first to use and experiment with these new things. From chewing gum, "was the 1950s through the 1960s psychedelic and experimental drug-induced 1970, came the first of the great "guitar" as Chuck Berry, Duane Alman, Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Keith Richard, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Gary Rossington, Dave Gilmour, Steve Jones, Gary Moore, and many, many more. These innovative tried new things and were able to make the guitar do more (or in some cases less) than it had been forced to "do" before.

And then not "guitar." A new game! No strumming there! Now the band had "guitarists" and "rhythm guitar." New title, new roles, new competencies.

When American guitarist Eddie Van Halen took the stage with the song "Eruption" in 1978, a whole new world opened up for guitarists. New techniques such as tapping became. Now people use both hands on the board fret!

Then the 1980s ushered in a new wave of highly skilled, impressive guitar players, playing guitar in ways never played before. People like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads, Jake-E-Lee, The Edge, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, George Benson, Robert Smith, and thousands more guitarists playing guitar at levels even greater than those indicated by the guitar greats from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

During this same time in the years 1980 the "whammy bar" came into its own. Floyd Rose and Kahler two companies that emerged with the floating tremolo system that enables new and more striking techniques extreme driving of the bar without hopelessly out of tune guitar. And they have created new possibilities once again.

At the time of the 1990s produced, playing the guitar was so far above what it meant to play guitar in the pre-electric guitar that the two concepts had become almost like chalk and cheese.

The guitar was no longer an instrument "strumming" and had not been for a good few decades and generations!

And for this, a new fact: to become in a very good guitar player today, a right handed person has to learn to play guitar "lefty." This means that the person's right hand "strong" hand touches the fingerboard. This is in direct contrast to the "traditional" teachings that the heavy hand strums the guitar (and keeps time.) If you want to dazzle people with you skills and up and down the fret board like a guitar god, why put your "weak" hand the task more difficult? It is his "iron fist" that should be on the fret board doing the work "hard."

And this is the opposition directly to how people are generally taught how to play guitar today despite the fact that the mentality is totally obsolete.

To do this very clear: the "strong" hand has to be that of the fretboard. For an individual right, which is the right hand. For a left handed person is his left hand. Your "weak" hand should be holding the pick. His "strong" is the hand that should be playing the fret board!

There is some evidence here easily achievable. Look up the really great guitar heroes and take a look at how many of them are actually lefties who play right handed guitar.

The opposite to that would be the right people who play guitar left handed.

Right-handers have to learn to play guitar left-handed if want to play the guitar at levels beyond "strumming." PARENTS TAKE NOTE. This corresponds to you in the primary. If your child wants to be a guitarist "large", make a left handed guitar, if right and give them a right if left handed guitar.

Do this and behold: New Perspectives on GUITAR Achievement is possible. We live in the 21st century and the guitar has nothing to do was in the days of dinosaurs of the early 20th century.

About the Author

Gaskell Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Sydney, Australia that makes only left handed guitars. http://www.gaskellguitars.com

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