Guitarist's Forum

[Pete in Oxney]

Well Santa decided to ignore my request for the tab book so I'll have to buy it myself.  

[Henrik]

Well Santa decided to ignore my request for the tab book so I'll have to buy it myself.  

Well, maybe you wrote to the Santa imposter in Finland (Lapland), Pete ?

Every child here knows that the real Santa - aka. "the Yuleman" ( ) - lives in Greenland.
He will even reply, if you write to him.

Best wishes for your purchase.

H.

PS. There exists a CD of midi versions of the tabs, but I think it's hard to get these
days, and it's not announced in the present second (?) issue of this tabbook.

[Domenico Mosca]

Listening to "Walking into the morning" at the Cadogan hall I have found that the song has many points in common with Mark Knopfler's "Get lucky" in the lyrics and in the music.
What's about?
Domenico

[Al]

I don't know this song, I'll try to give it a listen  

[MAJ]

So why do I have right hand picking problems? Probably because I'm left handed but play standard right hand guitar. When I started playing as a youngster off the shelf left handed guitars were unheard of and custom build wasn't an option financially. I'd had a couple of years of piano lessons so my hands could already think for themselves and act independently, chording wasn't a problem and basic picks like Travis (clawhammer) came with a bit of practice.

Well sorry mate, lame excuse ! Equal dexterity is required with both hands, I'm a 'leftie' playing right-handed and never had a problem.
It makes no difference mate, get over it !

I'm a leftie too and for years played re-strung right-handed guitars and wondered why the whole experience was never quite right. As Pete says, left-handed guitars were not an option until now. I now have a "proper" leftie guitar and I love it.  Worth the wait, even though I'm still a c**p guitarist.

I can play guitar however with both hands working independently but the piano, forgeddaboudit. Both hands insist on working in unison.... Hurrumph!

[Al]

I'm a leftie too and for years played re-strung right-handed guitars and wondered why the whole experience was never quite right.

  Well, there's lots of boring technical reasons why a right-hand strung guitar strung t'other way round would give a less than satisfactory experience, tuning one would be an ordeal for a start as the string lengths would be the wrong way round for proper compensation   The most often given example of somebody doing this is Jimi Hendrix but, of course, the saddles on his Stratocaster bridge were easily changed for this purpose with just a few turns of an allen key, doing it on an acoustic is impossible without resorting to woodwork  

[MAJ]

Quite so - tuning was a bu**er to get right, and more to the point, keep right once I'd got it...!!

But I was 14 and I didn't know any better then.  Now of course, I'm just brilliant.

[Al]

Quite so - tuning was a bu**er to get right, and more to the point, keep right once I'd got it...!!

But I was 14 and I didn't know any better then.  Now of course, I'm just brilliant.

of course  

[CarlWoodb]

I can play guitar however with both hands working independently but the piano, forgeddaboudit. Both hands insist on working in unison.... Hurrumph!

Play each hand separately until the hand knows what it's doing automatically then put them together line by line slowly.  At least this is what my piano teacher keeps telling me -  sigh  

[Henrik]

I can play guitar however with both hands working independently but the piano, forgeddaboudit. Both hands insist on working in unison.... Hurrumph!

Play each hand separately until the hand knows what it's doing automatically then put them together line by line slowly.  At least this is what my piano teacher keeps telling me -  sigh  

Has he told you yet that there is no more he can teach you, Carl?

[JJ (Joanna)]

Henrik, have you perfected 'Hands of Joseph' yet?   You've had over a year to practise!

[Henrik]

Henrik, have you perfected 'Hands of Joseph' yet?   You've had over a year to practise!

Of course  

[Pete in Oxney]

Ah, I see we've inserted quite a back catalogue of posts, no wonder I was experiencing Deja Vu!

I'll have to review my posts about being left handed and return to give Al a slap. Henrik, I've missed your cheerful encouragement mate!  

[Henrik]

Ah, I see we've inserted quite a back catalogue of posts, no wonder I was experiencing Deja Vu!

I'll have to review my posts about being left handed and return to give Al a slap. Henrik, I've missed your cheerful encouragement mate!  

Thank you, Pete  

So have you made progress, since we spoke last time?

Nothing wrong with being left handed - some of them are even nice people  

[tryer]

Fair interview in this months [ Dec issue 362?] Guitarist Magazine

[JJ (Joanna)]

Fair interview in this months [ Dec issue 362?] Guitarist Magazine

Thank you