Originally Posted by: bbriant

Hi Everyone

I am a young oldy 69yrs going on 70. I am left handed started to learn in the late 1960s with right handed friends guitars, I could not find a left handed guitar I was able to afford. so I brought a right handed jumbo acoustic a turned the strings around.

I was also tone deaf at that time, was told in school by my music teacher not to sing. took me four years to learn how to tune with a set of pitch pipes.

My fretting hand pinky is stuck in a perminant L shape and my other fingers on both hands are not working great.

Now there is so many good left handed guitars around and ways of learning that about seven months ago decided to give it another go, there are some chords I will never be able to play but i find another shape to use.

I sing maybe out of key and play what i can and really enjoy myself.

So grab a guitar and go for it.

Barry

Jeez Barry, tough music teacher! Rock n Roll even Country has been filled with people who didn't have the best of voices but so what? Stylize it! Concentrate on song writing and getting a groove.

That was my advice to my son anyway when he wanted to form a band back in highschool. And like you, he ignored the critics and just went ahead and sang with his buddies. That's Rock n Roll man!

No child should be told not to sing in my opinion. Think of all the things 4 teenage boys could have been into aside from writing songs, practising, gigging and even cutting an album.

Keep singin man!