How Do You String For A Left Handed Guitarist?
Stringing a guitar for a left-handed musician isn’t that different than for a musician that plays strictly right-handed. It is merely a matter of switching where each string goes. • If your guitar is fresh out of a music store, gently remove the strings it originally came with by untying the knots. These strings are usually just arranged for display, though some strings are already adjusted for immediate use. Be sure to have some way to identify which note is which, such as notecards with each note on them. (You can save these for future use in stringing) Otherwise you’ll have to undo all of your hard work to fix it! • If your guitar didn’t come with any strings, purchase a pack of six strings. There are two kinds of “E” strings, a lower pitched string and a higher pitched. The first string is the lower pitched of the two. “A”, “D”, “G”, “B” and the higher “E” complete the strings. Make sure when you buy strings they have all of these, even if you have no use for them at the moment. Yo
• If your guitar is fresh out of a music store, gently remove the strings it originally came with by untying the knots. These strings are usually just arranged for display, though some strings are already adjusted for immediate use. Be sure to have some way to identify which note is which, such as notecards with each note on them. (You can save these for future use in stringing) Otherwise you’ll have to undo all of your hard work to fix it! • If your guitar didn’t come with any strings, purchase a pack of six strings. There are two kinds of “E” strings, a lower pitched string and a higher pitched. The first string is the lower pitched of the two. “A”, “D”, “G”, “B” and the higher “E” complete the strings. Make sure when you buy strings they have all of these, even if you have no use for them at the moment. You never know when they’ll come in handy. • String your guitar. The notes that the strings play are organized in a low to high note system. For a left-hand friendly guitar, you simp
