I just looked at a video of Dick Dale playing Miserlou in reaction to this news and I’d never actually seen him play previously. He’s left handed and he plays a left handed guitar. But he strings the strings backwards, bass on the bottom and treble on top. It’s like he learned to play by using a right handed guitar flipped to the left but didn’t bother to restring it in reverse like Jimi Hendrix did. That’s nuts, it means he had to learn everything upside down and backwards. Maybe that’s why he was so creative, he couldn’t just pick up a book and do what it said, not easily. Interesting.
Maybe that’s why he was so creative, he couldn’t just pick up a book and do what it said, not easily. Interesting.
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My Dad was an amazing guitar player. He had no idea how to read music.
Doyle Bramhall II plays the same way..... He can hit a lick...youtube him.
Earnie Isely (big pal of Hendrix) plays ambidex...right or left, upside down or whatever.
“He’s left handed and he plays a left handed guitar. But he strings the strings backwards, bass on the bottom and treble on top. It’s like he learned to play by using a right handed guitar flipped to the left but didn’t bother to restring it in reverse like Jimi Hendrix did.”
Check out Albert King. He did the same thing, as do I. I think Doyle Bramhall II, Bobby Womack and Bob Geldof played lefty with righty strings as well. I know Jimi Hendrix learned to play that way but switched over to standard strings before he got famous.