I'm left handed, but right armed, & playing righthanded feels more natural, but enough about me. As far as learning to play, toher than learning the chords, the best advice I got was to make sure I was able to play a steady rhythm before worrrying about getting too fancy. My lead guitarist has dozens of horror stories about quitarists who can't keep the same rhythm from the beginning through to the end of the song.

I took lessons when I was 21 for six months & learned a lot(with lots of practice)but right when we were getting to the really difficult part, I dislocated my shoulder...Three months later, I was out of the sling & back to the lessons, and just getting to the tricky stuff again when I had another dissagreement with the ground & was back in the sling....This pattern was repeated for the next 4 years with 6 more dislocations & 2 surgeries.

Thirty years later, I still haven't gotten around to the tricky parts,,,I feel like I reached a level of competent mediocrity when I was 21, but I have at least perfected my mediocrity since then, & besides, someone has to play rhythm while the jammers jam.

Midnite



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