Hi triggerasynapse!

I am female and although I have been a member of Guitar Tricks for a whlie now, I still consider myself more of a beginner since I've stopped and started my journey a few times.

I'm in my 50's and have been trying to learn to play guitar since I was 15 when my grandparents bought me my first one. The problem was that it was a right handed and I am left handed, I tried to learn using my right hand to strum and my left to make the chords and that didn't work for me at all. So I ended up flipping the strings and using my right hand to make the chords and my left hand to strum and that worked a whole lot better!

I learned a few chords and a few frets from a family friend and from an old Mel Bay book that I checked out of the library but never took any lessons or classes so I didn't make much progress.

I checked out a few lessons on Youtube that Lisa McCormick had posted and followed her over to GT and it is the best thing I could have done! I started Guitar Fundamental and have learned a whole lot since then. I was still playing an inverted right hand guitar since that is all I've ever had but I finally decided that if I am going to get serious about learning then I should do it right, so I bought a Fender left handed acoustic/electric and it really made a difference. . . not sure why but it sounded a whole lot better.

Just recently I was at the music store getting the Fender restrung and noticed they had a used left handed Art&Luthier acoustic.I decided to try it out and loved how it felt and how it sounded so I added it to my collection(of two) and now I feel even more like a real guitar player since I have more than one instrument!LOL

Who knows, maybe one day I will add an electric one.

Good luck to you on your journey and see you around the forum!

tweety