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What are you listening to...

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by Tully Mars, Aug 23, 2011.

  1. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    My phone and YouTube links are fighting, and I'm the one losing.

    IIRC Dick Dale played lefty, and learned to play on right-handed guitars without reversing the strings. And played that way even after he could afford proper lefty guitars. He wasn't the only one, Doyle Braumhill III plays that way.
     
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  2. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    I depends on which hand you consider to be "playing" the guitar: The hand fingering the strings... or the hand doing the picking?

    Studies have shown a statistical bias in favor of lefties among orchestral violin and cello players.WHITS that they play the traditional way with the left hand on the neck and bow with the right hand. Less so with (upright) bass players, but quite a few of those are have come to the upright by way of guitar or "slab bass."
     
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  3. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Both hands, as far as I'm concerned. I know lefties who play lefty with the strings done correctly. I know lefties who learned to play righty because it was convenient or that's how they were taught. I don't personally know anyone who plays lefty with right-handed stringing.

    Pick up a righty guitar, flip it over, and try to finger some simple chords....upside down and backwards.
     
  4. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Nomenclature is confusing, but I call it a lefty guitar if the player fingers the string with his/her right hand and picks/strums with the left hand.
     
  5. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I don't think there's an actual name for playing lefty with EBGDAE stringing.
     
  6. Knight Templar

    Knight Templar Holy Warrior

    Location:
    Struthers,Ohio
  7. redux

    redux Very Tilted

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    She does a nice cover of this Simon and Garfunkel tune

     
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  8. Knight Templar

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  9. Knight Templar

    Knight Templar Holy Warrior

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  11. redux

    redux Very Tilted

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    Legendary front man of the Kinks

     
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  12. Knight Templar

    Knight Templar Holy Warrior

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  14. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
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    The Kinks, and honestly Ray Davies' songwriting pretty much is The Kinks, are (one of) the most chronically underrated rock band(s). That happens when you record songs that people have to really listen to.

    JMOO, lol.
     
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  16. redux

    redux Very Tilted

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    Lowell George at his best and a nice piano solo in there as well.

     
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  19. Knight Templar

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  20. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX


    Sina has been at this for quite a while; her vids cover a wide variety of genres, and include some original music. She's from Germany, and her English isn't perfect, but her wicked dry sense of humor comes through clearly.

    Confession: I used to feel a little guilty thinking that she was really cute (nothing particularly sexual, mind you), and now feel better knowing that she was born in 1999, which makes her at least 19, probably 20.
     
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