Are “The Principles” For Left Handed Players?
There are 3 aspects to “The Principles”: Understandings, Tools, and Exercises. The Understandings are things you must know in order to practice correctly. These Understandings, of course, are essential and work for everyone, regardless of “handedness”. This is true of the tools as well (practice routines based on the Understandings) that bring powerful and lasting results. The exercises are described for right handed playing, but I assume that left handed people are used to performing the “dyslexic” operations necessary to convert the instructions to left handed operation. So, yes, “The Principles” work just as powerfully for left handed players as well as right handed. In any case, BOTH hands must learn incredibly complex things on guitar. I am right handed, yet my left hand, which started out feeling very awkward, has become as master “gymnast”! So, personally, I don’t even put much stock in “handedness” when it comes to playing the guitar. You need both, no matter which does what, a
