Reply To: Learning Left Handed or Fretting without a Pinky

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I am a left-handed person who has learned to play right-handed guitar fairly successfully in the past. Currently, I’m starting out again doing both – I have a left and a right guitar and I’m swapping between them. Actually, I’m finding I’m slightly better at fretting with my non-dominant hand, which I thought was quite odd. Guitar has evolved so that in general people pick/strum with the dominant hand. I haven’t yet observed much advantage to that, but I guess there must be one. An advantage to learning right-handed would be it’s much easier for (the majority = right-handed) people to show you stuff, and easier to learn from others, or use their guitars in a social situation. Keep us posted on how it goes.