Upside-down left-handed guitar?

Question

My problem is kinda different from most. I'm right handed, but my dad is left-handed so all of our guitars are, too. I'm wondering, is it a good idea at all to learn right-handed guitar with the strings upside down (thickest facing floor, thinnest facing up)?

Answer 1

Jimi Hendrix did the opposite, he played a right handed guitar left handed. Seemed to work for him. Though with all due respect, he was of the above average talent level. It might be easier to just get a not-too-expensive right handed guitar. You don't have to have an expensive guitar to learn on.

Answer 2

I'm an intermediate guitarist and I should tell you this, do NOT learn to play like jimi hendrix. That will knock you out of whack if you get a righty guitar. I would suggest you save up money and buy a righty guitar. My guitar was 25$ from a pawn shop, but it plays like the best of them!

Answer 3

Well, it never hurt Jimi Hendrix or Albert king or many other remarkable players. It is a different way to learn though - just think of everything being held upside doem. Hang in ther, you'll figure it out - and come out with your own unique style for learning it. It's a novelty and anything different is good in show biz. Good Luck!

Answer 4

That's a bad idea. If you learn it that way if you got a right handed guitar you'd be completely incapable of playing it. That and songs mostly written using a normal stringing and if you played oppisite to that it would make learning/playing many things very difficult.

Answer 5

that would be like albert king, he played that way.great for blues bending, pulling down rather than pushing up.
hendrix played the normal string set up on a reversed
right hand guitar...