So, if you’ve been to the gallery and looked in wonderment at all those lovely pictures of me, you may have noticed something’s not quite right about them?
No, I didn’t display the images the wrong way round! Yes, I am left handed!!
The being left handed, or “southpaw” as some people call it, isn’t in my experience an impediment to teaching guitar, (or other fretted instruments for that matter). In fact, it’s often an advantage. Most right handed folk that have lessons from a tutor will no doubt be observing their instructor’s guitar neck pointing in the opposite direction to their own. If you are fortunate enough to have a left handed guitar tutor, the guitar necks as you look across at each other, will be pointing in the same direction, giving a “mirror image” effect to the proceedings. This will, (once you’ve become accustomed to it), make life considerably easier as you try to imitate the tutor’s finger positions and movements.
At a later stage, I shall be uploading some video clips that will demonstrate this effect.
Simon Faulks Music Tutor 