Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "This TRULY Stumped Me…Trying to Play Left Handed" video.

  1. I'm hard core left-handed. All mammals are born 50/50 left or right handed, scientists thinking what you move in the womb first is what you become. Anthropologists say it was the invention of bronze, the helmets shields and spears, making it easy to stab left-handed people in the heart, why we're down to ten percent. There is an electro-static coalescence in the front of your brain, where the electricity of your brain cojoins the electricity of your body. Left-handed people have two, so if you are wounded by a bullet or someone hurts your feelings for the rest of your life, the second one begins to compensate, back to your default self. Playing guitar with the bass strings on the bottom and the highs on top is the easiest way to play guitar. See how your fingers flutter over the strings to play lead, not having to scrunch them up to play lead on the G, B and E strings. See how the pad of your index finger is always there for the bass strings, whether you are playing jazzy or using feedback, deadening the strings you don't want to hear. After exchanging his 1955 Gibson L5 back and forth in his dressing room, helping me to decide, it was Mister George Benson who encouraged me to want to keep playing left-handed the way I was. I talked about my 1964 Stratocaster in 1971 and the Marshall I custom ordered from England, but I never said I saw Jimi Hendrix at Maple Leaf Gardens, just down the road, and while Mr. Benson was very knowledgeable about using feedback he never mentioned his name either.
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