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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: How many total fingers does a human have? Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by joojoo[/i] [br]Hey everyone. I've been playing for about a year and a half now on my Cedar top seagull (a great guitar btw, any beginner who is serious about becoming a guitarist should check Seagull out), and plan on moving soon to a Martin HD-28V, no matter how many crappy jobs I have to work over the summer (I've fallen in love with that martin tone... but anyways, that's for another topic). Anyways, here's my question: I'm left handed, and I play right handed guitar. This makes chord fluency and general left hand technique a snap, but it also hurts my rhythmic coordination and overall technique on my right hand harder. I recently bought Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar to address this and generally just become a better guitarist with better overall technique. I breezed through the left hand exercises, no problem. However, I came to the right hand section, and the first exercise is like this: 15-0-0-0-14-0-0-0-12-0-0-0-11-0-0-0-8-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-5-0-0-0-3-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The absolute lowest starting speed is 70 bpm in the book... and I'm struggling to maintain rhythmic control at 50. I love Tim's fast lead style on acoustic, ala Tripping Billies LALC or his Jemez Rolling Waves Jam, but playing like that myself seems an event that won't be taking place anytime in the next 20 years... Any left handers out there who play right handed like me? any advice from anyone at all? [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.