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Hey guitarists. After painstakingly trying to play in the style of Dick Dale I realized the problem was that the guy PLAYS WITH HIS STRINGS UPSIDE DOWN-i.e. left-handed without restringing an upside down guitar or by stringing a lefty backwards!!!!
Apparantly Albert King, Ernie Ball, and the guy from the Super Furry Animals does this too.
I'm a lefty, but does anyone else find this as fantastically weird as me? I mean you have to use your thumb a lot.

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i can play like that...learned to do it mostly because everyone i know plays right handed where as i'm a lefty

about the best i can do is play jose gonzalez heartbeats upside down...and a wee bit of hallelujah by jeff buckley

some chords are easier upside down and others such as G are a total nightmare

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Kurt Cobain does it as well he use to play it upside down and stuff.

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Kurt Cobain wasn't a very good guitarist.

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Jimi Hendrix and Paul Mcartney.

Some guitarists restring the guitar the opposite way, but Hendrix could play both styles.

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Kurt Cobain wasn't a very good guitarist.

Not technically, no , but he played with soul and fire, which is more important than technique if you ask me.

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Jimi Hendrix and Paul Mcartney.

Some guitarists restring the guitar the opposite way, but Hendrix could play both styles.

Not technically, no , but he played with soul and fire, which is more important than technique if you ask me.

exactly.

Apr 3rd, 2006 08:59 AM

Darth Jello
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kurt cobain would restring his too. I'm talking about people who don't restring and basically with their strings going the wrong way.

Apr 4th, 2006 11:20 AM

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