Learning Guitar for a Left Handed Person

A friend of mine decided she wanted to learn to play guitar the other day and I thought this was really cool, I had an old guitar and thought she might like to use that to get started with.

I pulled it out and handed it to her and suddenly we both realized she was left handed and my guitar was made for a right handed person!

Oh my – I had never considered this before. I mean you don’t have left handed clarinets and saxaphones do you?

Anyway, we were just pondering what we should do and if they even made guitars for left handed people when I decided to search Google and see what I could find on this topic. Would you belie it! I found an awesome site all about the technique of playing left handed guitar on a right handed guitar!

So it is possible and my friend has already learned a few chords! It will be a while before she’s ready to go on stage though

I still don’t know if it’s better for a left hander to get a guitar that’s made for them?  But there surely have been some famous left hand players such as Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney! Being left handed certainly wont stop you from being great!