Have you tried playing an upside-down guitar?

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 188

  • @ibanezleftyclub
    @ibanezleftyclub 5 років тому +190

    Now you know our pain.

    • @gayvinstr8520
      @gayvinstr8520 5 років тому +7

      wow what the fuck

    • @jasonlee-fp9vs
      @jasonlee-fp9vs 5 років тому +1

      Lol WTF XD

    • @hallwayraptor2036
      @hallwayraptor2036 5 років тому

      Heyyyyy nice, I'm lefty and I have a black 89' RG 550 I love that thing! At some point over the years someone put a set of green evos in it and it sounds amazing.

    • @ibanezleftyclub
      @ibanezleftyclub 5 років тому

      parallax3d 🙄🙄

    • @VortexArcade
      @VortexArcade 5 років тому +4

      If what you're saying made any sense, every righty would be playing left handed guitars.

  • @dontderockmeriz4546
    @dontderockmeriz4546 5 років тому +118

    I’ll never play that good with my guitar right side up.

  • @WeyandtUSMC
    @WeyandtUSMC 5 років тому +99

    *Albert King has joined the chat*

  • @JavyonVISION
    @JavyonVISION 5 років тому +11

    Better than I was expecting!😁

  • @LumioSoleth
    @LumioSoleth 5 років тому

    That was amazing honestly!

  • @ElectricosCosmos
    @ElectricosCosmos 5 років тому +30

    As a lefty in a guitar shop you have to play upside down to try any nice guitar. Usually it’s a single out of tune black and white strat and that’s your only option.

    • @luukidk4850
      @luukidk4850 5 років тому

      Why don’t restring a right handed guitar the other way around?

    • @KHGuitarFreak1988
      @KHGuitarFreak1988 5 років тому +3

      @@luukidk4850 Because a store would never restring any guitars like that?

    • @Jorge_K
      @Jorge_K 5 років тому

      Never put much thought in it, cause I'm right handed. That sucks bro!

    • @m32106
      @m32106 5 років тому

      @@luukidk4850 in order to do that you would need to cut and install a new nut, and change the intonation on the bridge

    • @luukidk4850
      @luukidk4850 5 років тому

      m32106 never thought about that. Glad I’m right handed

  • @edcollante
    @edcollante 5 років тому

    Beautiful tone.

  • @burnbacktime
    @burnbacktime 5 років тому

    Nice, When I was a teenager way back in the 90s I had a buddy who played lefty. We both started at the same time and it was awesome to have a mirror image to play along with.. Really helped learning things from each other..

  • @asasquatchplays7455
    @asasquatchplays7455 4 роки тому

    I especially love the expressions on another player's face when they let me play their guitar, not knowing that I play upside down.. So satisfying

  • @Cygnus0lor
    @Cygnus0lor 5 років тому

    That red strat on the wall looks gorgeous...

  • @jakeguitarguy
    @jakeguitarguy 5 років тому +51

    As a lefty, welcome to my Hell Rob. Enjoy your stay.

    • @angeredcheese1332
      @angeredcheese1332 5 років тому

      same lmao

    • @RobChappers
      @RobChappers  5 років тому +5

      Jake Guitar Guy Ha ha thanks man!

    • @cammarc
      @cammarc 5 років тому

      Yeah, that’s my life on a day to day basis.

    • @1johnnygunn
      @1johnnygunn 5 років тому +1

      @@RobChappers now that you know the pain of all lefties, whatever shall come of it?

    • @angeredcheese1332
      @angeredcheese1332 5 років тому +1

      Do all of you not know how to string a guitar upside down?

  • @janedoe3570
    @janedoe3570 5 років тому +1

    Some of my favourite blues players played upside down, Otis Rush and Albert King in particular :)

  • @Lazy_eye_blobFish
    @Lazy_eye_blobFish 5 років тому

    Man that is a beautiful guitar.

  • @owain8087
    @owain8087 5 років тому

    That’s class Chappers 😎

  • @realmagicjon
    @realmagicjon 5 років тому

    Played upside down since a teen, 57 now and just bought my first Lefty Strat man I wish I bought a lefty years ago but the relearning curve is fun.

  • @intrinsic524
    @intrinsic524 5 років тому +1

    Sick jem

  • @longwordsonsongwords
    @longwordsonsongwords 5 років тому

    I can see some people trying this and using techniques familiar to right-handed guitarists to create really unique-sounding runs in a solo. I might have to try something like this!

  • @jacothy
    @jacothy 5 років тому +2

    >When a lefty picks up anyone else's guitar

  • @alecstrassburg4765
    @alecstrassburg4765 5 років тому

    I've always played like this on right handed guitars since that was all that was available to me when I started, now I couldn't imagine playing the "correct" way

  • @Heikken
    @Heikken 5 років тому

    Right on, playing it Dan Swanö style.

  • @simmonphoenix3206
    @simmonphoenix3206 5 років тому

    That is the best color combination for a JEM in my opinion.

  • @chosenwarfare3811
    @chosenwarfare3811 5 років тому

    I have that amp and yeah I love that amp...

  • @adamweir359
    @adamweir359 5 років тому

    This is my life Rob. When I was a kid we were very poor. I begged and begged mum for a guitar. We could not afford it. Finally I was at a garage sale, and I saw this old acoustic. It was pretty beat up. I got if for $15 ( money I was saving from mowing lawns) I was left handed playing a right handed guitar. I had no idea. It had a very big hole in the back, that I fixed with duct tape. The strings were old and rusty. So at first it hurt my fingers. I had no idea how to tune it. I didn't know what standard E was. I couldn't afford lessons. I had an old VHS tape of Nirvana. I used to put it on slow motion and write down were Kurt put his fingers. I taught my self to play, Left handed and up side down. It was very hard for me. You inspire me Rob. I bow to the almighty monkey lord............ Thank you from Australia :)

  • @lindsayhemionawarren7880
    @lindsayhemionawarren7880 4 роки тому

    I just see this now!!!
    I to play guitar upside down and am on Steve T latest video now. Although that wasn't the piece I would of used (someone else put it up) it was a piece for my granddad who passed

  • @Saltyarticles
    @Saltyarticles 5 років тому

    Jimi hendrix style ! Nice

  • @PigMCplayer
    @PigMCplayer 5 років тому

    Yes.

  • @irishlostboy
    @irishlostboy 5 років тому

    And this is exactly how I play all guitars. I just take regular guitars and flip them over. I never knew I was doing it wrong until it was too late. I don't play lead stuff like this though. Chords, picking and strumming sounds very different when played upside down, and looks even more strange.

  • @garycoates4987
    @garycoates4987 5 років тому

    it looks cool flipped over anyway

  • @skylerrizzi
    @skylerrizzi 5 років тому

    The guitarist of Til Skies Fall and one of the guitarists of TraumaxQueen play like this, and I’ve seen a couple of other people play like this as their normal style too

  • @DrUmbreon
    @DrUmbreon 5 років тому

    There's a busker in my city that I see pretty regularly playing a left handed strat upside down. He's a regular Jimi Hendrix.

  • @salatieljyrustumanan4929
    @salatieljyrustumanan4929 5 років тому

    As an ambi, it was easy to re-coordinate my hand motions.

  • @michaelbarnett5779
    @michaelbarnett5779 5 років тому

    Doyle Bramhall II is one of the great upside down leftys

  • @rbv1595
    @rbv1595 5 років тому

    such a funny idea

  • @pewpew_pew
    @pewpew_pew 5 років тому

    Yep, I started playing and still play like this (lefthand on a righthand guitar, strings upside down)

    • @motormikegentile7273
      @motormikegentile7273 4 роки тому

      Why would I do that ???for what reason I'm a lefty with a lrfty axe stringed up.properly lefty

  • @tiltedhorizon1435
    @tiltedhorizon1435 5 років тому

    This is why Doyle Bramhall II is a guitar legend.

  • @lufcbrice
    @lufcbrice 5 років тому +4

    eric gales does this

  • @rmxrider20032000
    @rmxrider20032000 5 років тому

    Seen a lefty do the same thing with a rt handed guitars and that's how he always played them. Only relocates the strap button to the other horn and rips on it.

  • @slayerdude10
    @slayerdude10 5 років тому

    Yes, because as a lefty guitar is to always had to noodle around on guitars upside down when playing on my friends’ guitars

  • @falkescheibe2835
    @falkescheibe2835 5 років тому

    Hay Rob firstly I never will “find” a jem like that in my room. Nice plating though.

  • @billmcelgunn7819
    @billmcelgunn7819 5 років тому

    Oh yes I have

  • @leewhitworth9142
    @leewhitworth9142 5 років тому +19

    And then Jimi Hendrix walks in and shows you how it's done

    • @justincrimmins4525
      @justincrimmins4525 5 років тому +1

      Lee Whitworth - Jimi would string his guitar lefty. Albert King and Elizebeth Cotten on the other hand. ( pun intended ). Edit: misspelled her last name.

    • @salatieljyrustumanan4929
      @salatieljyrustumanan4929 5 років тому

      @@justincrimmins4525 Jimi can play with upside down strings and even right handed. He just doesn't prefer to do it.

    • @pacman1789
      @pacman1789 5 років тому

      Salatiel Jyrus Tumanan That's exactly what Hendrix played though O.o He played a right-handed guitar, upside down, with it stringed backwards. That's how he learned to play guitar.

    • @salatieljyrustumanan4929
      @salatieljyrustumanan4929 5 років тому

      @@pacman1789 He also played with upside down strings. He had to as his father was observant on the fact Jimi was a lefty. His dad thought it to be demonic to own lefty stuff, so Jimi played left, right and left with upside down strings. Stringing it backwards came full time when he was independent.

  • @judosailor
    @judosailor 5 років тому

    You are far better at that than anyone has a right to be! Haha.

  • @skyirwin1445
    @skyirwin1445 5 років тому

    Dick Dale shreds in this style.

  • @Djazzy419
    @Djazzy419 5 років тому +7

    Every lefty did.

  • @geetarislife2843
    @geetarislife2843 5 років тому

    I kinda wanna try this now... where'd my Les Paul with brand new strings and my wire cutters go

  • @a.r.1611
    @a.r.1611 5 років тому

    I watched this thinking "Man, leftys must have an awful time" COMPLETELY forgetting that I'm a lefty myself, but learned to play on "regular" guitars

  • @asasquatchplays7455
    @asasquatchplays7455 4 роки тому

    why yes Rob. yes I do. In fact, anytime I pick up a guitar I play it upside down. I guess it is what it is lol..

  • @thenotsoguitarguy9429
    @thenotsoguitarguy9429 5 років тому +1

    @Rob Chapman - New Challenge: write a solo for upside down left-handed guitar and record it into a song. I really like the way it changes your phrasing.
    Bonus points if you do it, but don't tell us what song you did it in.
    I can almost feel the frustration coming off of the potential people trying to learn that solo. "How the fuck did he do that?!"
    😈

  • @kv501
    @kv501 5 років тому

    Dweezil Zappa says, “What’s so hard about it?”

  • @robertpurdy4452
    @robertpurdy4452 5 років тому

    Nearly every guitar I see in a shop is one that I have to play upside down. It's just not fair Rob can play a lefty that good. Just not fair...

  • @SlightlyTechnical
    @SlightlyTechnical 5 років тому

    I practiced with a left-handed Ibanez geo, cause I was desperate to play at a time i couldn't afford a guitar

  • @falkescheibe2835
    @falkescheibe2835 5 років тому

    Rob now a lefty left handed (-;

  • @jasonjernigan8
    @jasonjernigan8 5 років тому

    I once went in to a music shop when I was younger and asked the clerk if I could get a left handed strat and string it backwards. He basically thought I was fooling with him and made me demonstrate with a right handed guitar turned upside down. His advice was to relearn. Though challenging, I am still glad I didn't.

  • @charlesedwards6390
    @charlesedwards6390 5 років тому

    Welcome to my world

  • @hondansx1000
    @hondansx1000 5 років тому +10

    ....I do it all the time...because I’m a lefty 😜

  • @aaandij
    @aaandij 5 років тому

    at least the headstock is the 'right' way up now :)

  • @marksugarman8462
    @marksugarman8462 5 років тому

    Dick Dale has been doing this for 65 years, but playing left handed on an upside down right hand guitar.

  • @mickhaslam2985
    @mickhaslam2985 5 років тому

    Makes me sound shite and I have my guitar the right way up!

  • @senselessinductor7921
    @senselessinductor7921 5 років тому

    I'm left handed, so yeah, I've done that so many times I can actually kinda play.

  • @tomyoung459
    @tomyoung459 5 років тому

    It's funny when playing a lefty how your feel and style changes like the little finishing touches like vibrato etc that you would normally put on a note that may be unique to your style have been stripped away and what's left is your bare ability? Idk

  • @mostlyirishcarguy8955
    @mostlyirishcarguy8955 5 років тому

    Eric gales approves

  • @lukedoleman2396
    @lukedoleman2396 5 років тому

    Any new lefty chapman guitars?

  • @georgewilkins4231
    @georgewilkins4231 5 років тому

    Can you play a tune on it something musical?

  • @stonedcrow5821
    @stonedcrow5821 5 років тому

    Elizabeth Cotten is the original upside-down, "Cotten-picking" guitar player..... She was awesome.

  • @Maxalots1
    @Maxalots1 5 років тому

    I'm left handed and this is the only way I know how to play a guitar lmao

  • @whitepepper8365
    @whitepepper8365 5 років тому

    That was cool!...... now do it with a 12 string.

  • @insanegamer1992
    @insanegamer1992 5 років тому +1

    Hey Rob, help me decide. Should I spend my hard earned imperial credits of the Canadian realm on a Ghost Fret or the ML3 Tradish semi-hollow? Legit I want you to pick for me cause I can't decide ;P

    • @gamebreakers2535
      @gamebreakers2535 5 років тому

      I'm not Rob, but I would personally pick the ML3

    • @mentarioallen572
      @mentarioallen572 5 років тому +1

      get a life

    • @RobChappers
      @RobChappers  5 років тому

      Dude I can’t pick for you, I would never tell you what to buy - you have to get which guitar that resonates the most for you, get the one that makes you the most excited to play it.

    • @insanegamer1992
      @insanegamer1992 5 років тому

      @@RobChappers Valid points...They're both just so sick; it's an impossible choice xD I guess I'll make the trip down to Cosmo Music in Toronto, try them both and buy the one I like best. Do you know when the Semi-Hollows will be arriving at most retailers?
      P.S-I've been listening to In the Sunshine non-stop since it came out and it's amazing;-)

  • @semimental7896
    @semimental7896 5 років тому

    Every time I go to a guitar shop, every time I want to try out a guitar before I buy one, every time I go to a friends house who plays and pick up one of their guitars to noodle on.
    It sucks.

  • @andreisevastre3659
    @andreisevastre3659 5 років тому

    I'm a lefty and I've played right handed guitars all the time when I didn't have mine with me. I got used to playing upside down and everybody's wondering how I manage to do it. The good and bad of being lefty

  • @Raveehh
    @Raveehh 5 років тому

    I find it weird when people who are left handed instantly assume they need left handed guitar. My friend is a lefty and started guitar playing as a righty and got used to it.

  • @michael_riffs
    @michael_riffs 5 років тому

    Reminds me of Dusty

  • @memsom
    @memsom 5 років тому

    Search for “kerbdog electricity”and watch the video for that song. Notice the guitarist plays left handed, but strung right. Realise that he is not just noodling, but playing chords. Listen to more Kerbdog, enjoy their music. Playing this way is just a skill learned. If you drop the low E to D, playing a simple barre becomes a lot easier. Playing scales is a lot easier than chords in many ways because a scale is just about bottom up not top down rather than contortions of fingerings

  • @MobileDecay
    @MobileDecay 5 років тому

    If I tried I would sound like I never touched a guitar in my life. Lol.

  • @ironkillmunicipal
    @ironkillmunicipal 5 років тому

    Thats how they play guitar's in Australia

  • @NoUploadJustComment
    @NoUploadJustComment 5 років тому

    When I play it upside down its very odd and desert-y like a QOTSA noodle.

  • @ryanferris7841
    @ryanferris7841 5 років тому

    Try a few open chords

  • @danielfurmanskijr
    @danielfurmanskijr 5 років тому

    No one else notice the evh 78 eruption in the background?

  • @asherbeal8357
    @asherbeal8357 5 років тому

    Lefty here. What I hate is the Lefty Tax on guitars we have to pay. 🤬🤬🤬

  • @luuk341
    @luuk341 5 років тому

    ERIC GALES INTENSIFIES!

  • @gregmican
    @gregmican 5 років тому

    I can’t play mine right side up!😂

  • @Stickmister360
    @Stickmister360 5 років тому

    my head hurts

  • @johnbovie9203
    @johnbovie9203 5 років тому

    I am left handed so playing upside down guitars is a fact of my life.

  • @jakobkeene5344
    @jakobkeene5344 5 років тому +3

    This is what jimi hendrix probably felt like

    • @JossFromAnarchy
      @JossFromAnarchy 5 років тому +3

      Actually, while Jimi's guitar *was* upside-down, it wasn't strung upside-down. (from his perspective)

  • @rodriantoniak6158
    @rodriantoniak6158 5 років тому

    With an 335, it would be more comfortable.

  • @theophany1770
    @theophany1770 5 років тому

    I'm left handed and play right handed

  • @wbwillie
    @wbwillie 5 років тому

    Are you kidding? That's how I started

  • @rbv1595
    @rbv1595 5 років тому

    hi

  • @YouCanCallMeXoe
    @YouCanCallMeXoe 5 років тому

    Ah yes, my favorite guitar company; Zaueql.

  • @arnieslab
    @arnieslab 5 років тому +1

    No way I could do that lol. Didn’t seem to bother you though

  • @eezamanna20
    @eezamanna20 5 років тому +1

    If I was any more left I'd be voting labour

  • @vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440
    @vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440 4 роки тому

    Thats how jimi hendrix felt

  • @dabird2120
    @dabird2120 5 років тому

    I re strung my strat so I'll feel like jimi Hendrix....oh wait I don't have a left handed guitar

  • @Yourbrotherfranio
    @Yourbrotherfranio 5 років тому +2

    Billy shears does a pretty good job but he had all that McCartney money to motivste him

  • @johnnymegabyte
    @johnnymegabyte 5 років тому +2

    what. No chords?

  • @djjazzyjeff1232
    @djjazzyjeff1232 5 років тому +7

    I have a question to all the lefties out there. Why didn't you just learn how to play on a right handed guitar? It's totally alien to you in the beginning anyway, what's the difference? They don't make left handed pianos but y'all can still play those?

    • @xxxxSHADOWxxxxxX
      @xxxxSHADOWxxxxxX 5 років тому +1

      That's what I've done, or doing....I'm still Learning

    • @delanguus
      @delanguus 5 років тому +1

      As a lefty, I'm playing a "normal" right-handed guitar as well. Actually, in the beginning, for me I feel it was easier to start with a right-handed one, since I started playing on an acoustic and the most difficult part was the fingering of chords (which was easier with my dominant left hand). Then after a time, I started practicing more intricate fingerpicking patterns, which were a pain in the bum though

    • @silentone2582
      @silentone2582 5 років тому +1

      I physically could not coordinate my hands to play regular guitars. Once i flipped it everything clicked. If you need a reference, Miles Dmitri Baker is a lefty and ex Ring of saturn guitarist. Dominic the forest Lapointe is a tech death metal lefty bassist.

    • @emilwestgaardhenriksen1715
      @emilwestgaardhenriksen1715 5 років тому

      I do alot of things right handed and are proficient in most task with both hands, but I am predominantley left handed and I have tried to learn playing roght handed on both guitar and violin, but for me it just aint possible my brain is hardwired ro tell me it can't be done I'm sure of it, also my dexterity has always been better in my right hand so I want to pick the chords with it. Everyone is diffrent ofc thos is just my hassle 😅

    • @Adamjpx
      @Adamjpx 5 років тому +1

      I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7, and despite me being left handed for everything else, my parents bought me a right handed guitar because it was cheaper. I played that thing for about 6 months and it was such a struggle, my hands just didn't feel comfortable and to just hold a pick or strum a chord took ages to do because my right hand couldn't get the motion right and the left hand just couldn't make the shapes. One day during a school music lesson, a friend of mine who had also started to learn the guitar bought his in, an actual left handed guitar. I asked him if I could play it and suddenly everything made sense. Of course it still took me a while to get chord shapes and stuff, but it just felt so much easier and natural on a left handed guitar. I think of people like Eric Gales and Mark Knopfler, naturally left handed people who play a right handed guitar (in the case of Gales, a right handed guitar upsidedown to be played left handed) and it just blows my mind that they were able to do that, as even now, 17 years later, even having a right handed guitar in my lap feels weird.

  • @jvanb231
    @jvanb231 5 років тому

    Didn't seem like that much a challenge for him

  • @grantjosephson7985
    @grantjosephson7985 5 років тому

    I actually play one of my guitars like this, the entire guitar is flip even the strings

  • @tommylight1312
    @tommylight1312 5 років тому

    What if you played a left handed guitar upside down?
    *Cats become sentient and learn to fly. They become our feline overlords and we have a 1000 year peace upon the whole face of the Earth.*

  • @blood_red_sinnamon_official
    @blood_red_sinnamon_official 5 років тому

    All i play is upside down guitars

  • @joeysousa310
    @joeysousa310 5 років тому

    Can I like... have it?