Well you shouldnt be analysing music , no one did at the time , & pop & rock are pop & rock thats all , bit of fun . It was fun at the time

@@Marcus538 It's not a zero sum game, working out what's good about it doesn't make it less fun.

Considering the money involved in the music industry, I think you should most definitely analyse music. Even if you take away the fact that it's fascinating as fuck 😁

Also, I'm sure people have alway analysed music!

@@Meeckle u 👍uuku io👍ookkugop 🙏y 👍ujhpki 🙏😊o

sounds like alot of fun.

Practice for the worst case, not the best

@@chiefinspector7280 well said

Practice till you make it yours !!

Didn't Julie Andrews say that based on what her music teacher told her?

Would be fun to give Rick a Billy Strings song to figure out. _Turmoil & Tinfoil_ comes to mind : )

LOVE these 2!!! I don't play any instrument but I've ALWAYS had the desire so I'm fascinated by everything they teach, even when it's over my head. I'm right hand dominant with a ruined right shoulder but I STILL want so much to learn. What do you recommend? Yuke or mandolin? (Small/light weight). To play mandolin would be a dream come true!! Sure, I'd LOVE to shred an electric guitar one day but just not physically possible. I'm 58 BTW so hurry!!! 🤣😂🤣❤jk

Just watched that video!!!

@@loriholloway5866 Ukulele might be a better bet for playing songs (you can always sing when everyone's gone out if you're worried) and it s tuned the same as the top four strings on the guitar so the potential for 'playing along' is probably greater. Mandolin is a wonderful single line instrument and there are many stellar players out there but less interesting chords-wise. Mind you I say that as a guitar player so I may be biased. You can get decent ukes for less money than decent mandolins and with the softer nylon strings it might be the place to start. The worse that might happen is that you end up owning a uke and a mandolin and maybe even a tenor guitar down the line. The world's a mess bu Christmas is coming. Treat yourself.

You can also do that with a lot of the old hits. In pop and rock music you can play many songs with 3 or four chords.

That’s right!

As an Untalented Learner myself on Guitar the 'eureka' moment when you finally play something correctly is worth all of the frustrating hours just moving your fingers around hoping to get them in the right place! Tennis and other athletic pursuits is different though because a lot of it comes down to hand-eye coordination and reflexes which really is more of a god given talent than learning to play music.

@@Veaseify They are genetically influenced talents. There are no gods watching us or giving us stuff, nor are they around watching us in the bathroom. They aren't there.

M A Batio is like that...phenomenal

Check out Paul DiLeo. Nena, Fozzy, Adrenaline Mob. A lefty, Plays a right handed bass upside down.

Most people can’t even sing the guitar solo to popular songs. No way they notice a bad unless it’s a first rate mess up. A lot of times the average person doesn’t notice that the singer/rhythm guitarist isn’t playing the solo unless the lead player literally steps into the spotlight.

As a middle-aged adult I learned to write with my left hand, after being writing a lot daily with my right hand in high speed (legible to me). It truly was at a first-grader's level in the beginning. But doable, I came up to about 2/3 of the speed of writing right handedly, after months. The left hand tired easily. My right hand got the rest it needed. I admire your tenacity and progress from understanding a bit of your struggles. Our brains and the motorskills are a fantastic intervowen complexity, evolutionary developed in tandem. Keep them up and be very protective of your brain!

That's my worst nightmare as a guitarist but so much respect to you for going through all that and not giving up!

Aus me too...St K

I am a trained music teacher and qualified guitar teacher here in Australia . Fil has nailed it. I play left handed if I want to remember what my students are trying to learn. I am right handed on guitar and bass.I have met many students have much passion for learning the guitar but have no natural talent. They are keen but they are musical dyslexics!. They cannot extrapolate and apply what they know to play any variations. Musical memory is also a learnt skill.

Interesting, I would have thought just facing each other would be like a mirror image and easier to demonstrate.

@@cazgerald9471 that is what I thought initially, but the mirror thing worked a charm. Basically it turns a right handed player into a lefthanded player

Thanks!

@@konstantia1607 Haha! Thanks, Konstantia, that's very kind!

@Lynn Dow. The main problem with handwriting in English for a leftie is that your writing hand obscures what you have just written! Right handers "drag/draw" the pen away from the left side of the paper and so can see what they have written. Lots of lefties write from over the top of the page and over the preceding lines of writing to see what they have written. Lefties must have had a seriously difficult job writing in the days of quill pens and wet ink! Stay safe and well,

Back in my day, left handed writing got you the cane. I couldn't even hold the pencil/pen properly with the right hand. I wish I was ambidextrous.

And in school days of yore, they would force the "out of line" leftie to write with their right hand by tying their left hand behind their back. Such fun!

@@Shell6424 Oh no! That is seriously terrible! I have heard of the forcing left handers to use their right hand, but never being actually abused physically. I'm so sorry to hear that.

Oboes are interesting instruments, I recently got into listening to jazz on a bassoon (also an interesting instrument), it's actually cooler than you might think. 😂

No problem!

I had a helluva hard time as a beginner guitarist back in 1971, and as a guy busting his hump to learn barre chords in early 1972. Definitely no natural talent happening in my case. But I did have a good ear. Once I got barre chords kinda-sorta under my fingers, I'd sit on the side of my bed for hours every night working out songs by ear, and by necessity, by memory as well, I was not in a position to be able to lift the needle on the record player and repeat a difficult passage, and Cassettes weren't commonplace in 1972 either. In 1971 at a Christmas to New Years youth camp a guy I looked up to as a guitarist was in his hut playing songs from the music book from George Harrison's All Things Must Pass album. He said to me: Arthur, if you really want your playing to take a giant leap forwards, get yourself a copy of this book. Well, a recommendation from Peter Ham was good enough for me. And no, not the Peter Ham from Badfinger, but the cousin of the lunatic who built that replica of Noah's Ark. Even back then he was a weirdo with that Quaker beard . . but I digress. That music book was one of the best put-together music books I ever bought. George probably had some creative control over its design. It had beginner versions of every song, using a capo to be able to still play simple chords and be in the right key. It also had full chord diagrams of every chord used in each song, on each page. Using that book, and a lot of practise, I eventually got to grips with barre chords and could give Peter a run for his money by the end of 1972. By the way, the real talent in that family was little brother Don Ham. It was like having Rick Wakeman playing in your band!! Now Souris, I have my own story about my hands not being the typical guitarist's hands. I'm short at just 5' 7", or actually an inch shorter now that I'm in my late 60s, and I'm small boned, being of Celtic ancestry. I have a size 9 shoe size, which is typical for a guy of my height. But my hands are like a gorilla's hands! Ten inch span from thumb to pinky finger when spread out, but having short thick fingers. When I was 12 my fist was half as big again as my father's fist. I dunno where that all came from, but since I haven't met many of my relatives, I'll probably never know. I always, right from the start, had all kind of trouble trying to do anything that involved stretching the fingers. Just couldn't do it. Then of course, at the other end of the neck, my hands and fingers have all kind of trouble trying to play up in Gary Moore-ville. I'm talking about above the 15th fret. I play The Loner and have trouble fitting my fingers between the frets up in the cutaway region of the neck. That's not ever gonna change because even in my senior years I still have my huge hands and fingers.

@@arthurblackhistoric Thank you for sharing that. I might go look for that Harrison book. There's some d*mn fine music on that album.

@@sourisvoleur4854 . . Good luck

@@arthurblackhistoric I got the same book. Previous to that I bought CCR's Cosmo's Factory songbook as I discovered it in a music shop after I already had the album. I had bought a guitar with my first paypacket from a vacation job. I learnt a lot of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs after that. When I bought my guitar, I bought a book of chords as well and diligently learnt and practised these without knowing what to do with these. It wasn't until I actually started learning songs that I started to get somewhere.

Yes, this often happens when people had to share one guitar with their right-handed siblings. I've come across several such people over the years; Mind-blowing! 🙂

Albert King played that way with the low E on the bottom.

I can't even fathom playing like that. Watching someone play like that I would never try and follow. I'd make them either tell me ahead what chord progression we're visiting or have them shout it out when we're playing.

I've seen dozens of people that play that way, the oldest example of that would be Elisabeth Cotten,more modern Eric Gales ,or Doyle Bramhall II.

@@bearculb7717 Dick Dale was a lefty who originally played a right-handed guitar upside-down. Later, when he bought lefty guitars, he still had them strung upside-down, because that's how he learned to play.

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