Stringing a Guitar in Reverse?
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- From Freddie King to Dick Dale, many legendary musicians played with their strings backward on an upside-down guitar. Can we?
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Do you have a favorite lefy handed guitarist? Which way did they play their strings?
As a dedicated lefty I would have never been able to play upside down. Southpaw guitars in Houston, TX is our savior!!
Dick Dale did this. He felt his playing style was easier with the strings reversed.
I was born left handed, so I was bought a left handed guitar, upon playing it I ended up being a right handed guitar player, so I just flipped it and played it right handed without ever changing the string arrangement. Kind of a reverse Dick Dale
Dale did that same tremolo line on high E string as well as the low one in Miserlou. So if having the strings upside down helped, it only helped for the first part.
He's like; nope... ya done lefty'd it all up!
The guitarist for Darko US is a lefty who plays a right-handed guitar upside down without rearranging the order of the strings.
Doyle Bramhall II plays that way too
Oh of course, he is so great!
Albert King also tuned down a couple of steps which made multiple step bends easier.
I started as a right handed trumpet player and piano student. So when I picked up a guitar I was used to playing melodies with my right hand and my brain was already wired like that and I instinctively flipped it around. Now , not owning my own guitar but watching over one while my roommate was traveling for 6 months , I couldn’t just change his strings to accommodate my new instrument fooling around. I just went ahead and got out his 96 chord chart foldout and learned them all. Finally a sax player showed me my first song. “House of the rising sun” and I was hooked. Now it’s totally different just flipping the strings on your right handed guitar. You will need a left handed one to flip and play. No neck position markers and yes you pull your bends. The first time I heard Albert King was on my radio alarm clock and I woke up dreaming I was playing the song only later to discover why I related. I attended college as a music major and drove my guitar tutor crazy as he originally believed I couldn’t fret some complex jazz voicings but I proved him wrong. Painfully for me at first. Hahahaha
It feels natural after all of these years to upstroke and 1st position diminished chords are a breeze. You should have an actual “upside down” player to illustrate this next time.or at least post some links to Eric Gale’s newest stuff. There are bass players who play like this as well. There is no wrong way to play from your heart. That’s what’s important. All my best.
Big Dave Simpson
This one was like a physical riddle, very fun!
I play lefty upside down as well, finally did 7or so vids on my little channel so far. Eric Gales is such great inspiration for any musician in my opinion!
Hi, please also test an idea where you have a reverse string order, but keep the EADGBE tuning - you'd need to use custom gages - but it might be interesting to hear how chords would sound like with High notes in the’top’
What I'd like to hear is something similar, so treble strings on top with bass on the bottom, but still EADGBE, treble to bass. You could play all the same chord shapes, but the voicings would be different.
I just found out Dick Dale used super thick gauges, like a .016p .018p .020p .039w .049 .060, 25 to 45 lbs of tension depending on which string you plucked!
Try it in open D it’s brutal. I’m a lefty and have one strat strung upside down with heavy strings for a really dark slide sound. When fingerpicking stroking up is easy. Dick Dale and King were both secretive/evasive about their tunings.
Dan Seals from England Dan and John Ford Coley did that as does Graham Russell from Air Supply. Both of them are pop guys who played mostly rhythm that way.
Rand Burkey, the former guitarist of the band "Atheist", uses the same playing technique and he is also left-handed
In reference to guitar tabs, wouldn't stringing the guitar this way mean that when you look down at the fretboard everything is upside down compared to the tabs? Even if you were learning by watching someone play you'd be reading from left to right as they play right to left. A mirror image.
Tabs are written the way they are so that they map perfectly onto the fretboard, from a player's perspective. It's very elegant.
Jimmi flipped the guitar but his strings were the right way up so technically he didn’t play upside down
Yes
I want to see this, but with standard tuning, upside down. Like, still EADGBE but with the strings thinnest to thickest.
That is a GREAT idea
Quick! Somebody get a Bluegrass guitar player, & give em a backwards strung guitar, & a good chunky metal tune!
4:30 is it my imagination or that bit sounds out of tune (it sounds ok with the chords 40 seconds later) guess its bending the strings a bit. did you flip the nut?
First thing this made think of is darko us
Tune it the other way too. So you still retain your chord shapes from before. you´ll get a better idea of what this can do.
So were just hardly gonna play ...
are u in standard tuning
Yes, but upside down. So EBGDAE high to low, top to bottom