There are also some advantages in athletics and sports. Some studies (although it’s not conclusive, and other research contradicts it) show that left-handed children excel in verbal reasoning. Many associate being left-handed with creativity. On the other hand (pun intended), there may be some advantages to left-handedness. This stigma was part of the reason that my father did not want to learn to play left-handed guitar. A stigma against left-handed people continued until recent decades. More recently, educators forced left-handed children in school to use their right hand to perform certain tasks used by the dominant hand. In the Middle Ages, being left-handed could get you accused of practicing witchcraft. For the minority of left-handed people, there were many serious challenges over the ages. There are some people who use both hands with equal skill (ambidextrous), but that is not common.īeing right-handed is much more common, and may account for 90 percent of the population. While it is common for people to prefer to do certain tasks with each hand, we determine handedness (right vs left) based on a person’s writing hand. What Does it Mean to be Left-Handed?īeing left-handed means that your left hand is more dominant than your right hand. In fact, there are some specific advantages. I just no longer believe that there is a definitive disadvantage to playing a right-handed guitar. Not that I feel that all lefties should play right-handed guitars. Now I’m thinking that he was correct in following his preference. He was not pleased, and he exchanged it for a right-handed jazz guitar. In fact, several years ago, I thought it was a great idea to give him a left-handed guitar as a gift. I imagined that he could have been a much better player if he had just learned how to play a left-handed guitar from the beginning.
I’ve always thought that this put him at a serious disadvantage with playing the guitar. Specifically, my father is a left-handed guitar player that plays right-handed. Now, as I see his rediscovered excitement about the instrument, I’ve been giving some thought to something specific about the way he plays.
He and I started playing when I was a young child, and while he was excited about playing early on, life’s responsibilities kept him from devoting a lot of time to it. My father is playing guitar again at age 76 after many long years of not picking up the instrument.
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