10-24-2017, 06:29 PM
(10-24-2017, 06:09 PM)Juniper Wrote:(10-24-2017, 12:13 PM)tvguy Wrote:(10-24-2017, 07:21 AM)Juniper Wrote: Found it from an old interview:
"I had to learn backwards. I can play right-handed guitar a bit, just enough for at parties. Hopefully, by that point everyone is drunk when I pick it up, because otherwise they're going to catch me. But I could do that, and the guys obviously wouldn't let me restring it. Certainly, they wouldn't let me gouge out their nuts. And at a party, you only want to play it for 15 or 30 minutes or so, and by the time you've goofed up their guitar and you hand it back to them, they've got to string it back again, and it's silly. So I had to learn upside down. It's funny: John learned upside down, too, because of me-because mine was the only other guitar around for him, if he broke a string or didn't have his. That's more unusual; left-handed guys can nearly always play a straight guitar. "
This article doesn't say it, but he was capable of playing it right ways and wrong ways...I remember reading about it once.
It looks to me like the article did indeed say he was capable of playing it right ways and wrong ways.
And explains why.
Well, I don't play but I think lefties must be pretty darn smart. It's like reading backwards or something...although the article says Lennon learned to do it also, as a rightie.
It seems it would just be a matter of practice. I worked at a printing shop many years ago. I got so I could read upside down and backwards pretty good. I still can but not quite as well. It's actually a handy skill to have.