Most Versatile Electric Guitar?

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hi
buying first electric guitar but left handed so will this make it more expensive if so by how much and will be playing almost everything apart from metal i'm looking for a versitile guitar (kings of leon,the coronas,nirvana,all time low,yellowcard,paramore)
(names of good brands and models would be good)

eoin5

What I've seen generally is about a 10% difference for left-handed guitars but it depends on a lot of things, the big killer though is the availability of models and colours. As far as versitility goes without going into metal a strat with bridge humbucker is a good way to go. Since its your first electric I'm assuming you dont want to spend too much, I'd say something like this would suit.

Edit: also this would be decent, doesn't have as good quality hardware but they're very good for the price.

-=al=-

i initially thought of a tele!

any of those guitars will do, defenitely a fan of the HSS setup for vesatility

Zombienosh

Whats your budget?

here.from.day.1

A Stratocastor all day long.

punchdrunk

force yourself to learn right handed,
I don't think which hand you use to write really comes into it when learning an instrument guitar is 80% muscle memory and maybe 20% hand/eye co-ordination
the muscles you need to be developed most are the ones on the fretting hand anyway so by being a lefty your half way there already

if you get serious about playing your going to start curse being a lefty by around the time you buy your second,maybe third guitar

get a right handed guitar and get lessons for the first few months
honestly you'll thank me later!

Paolo_M

I'd second punchdrunk for the most part.

However I would say that guitars are xxx-handed for a reason.
Rhythm is the most important aspect in most guitar playing styles.
To a degree you can get away with a few dud, poorly fretted notes once you've a strong rhythm going.
The inverse is certainly not true.
A right handed guitar has your right hand doing the rhythm work while your left frets notes.
As a result you may find that you have to work on your rhythms much more more than some of your right handed friends.
You'll have an advantage with your fretting hand, so there's a bit of swings and round-abouts too.

I'm a lefty playing right-handed BTW.

punchdrunk

Paolo_M wrote: »

I'd second punchdrunk for the most part.

However I would say that guitars are xxx-handed for a reason.
Rhythm is the most important aspect in most guitar playing styles.
To a degree you can get away with a few dud, poorly fretted notes once you've a strong rhythm going.
The inverse is certainly not true.
A right handed guitar has your right hand doing the rhythm work while your left frets notes.
As a result you may find that you have to work on your rhythms much more more than some of your right handed friends.
You'll have an advantage with your fretting hand, so there's a bit of swings and round-abouts too.

yep,this man's bang on the money too,
but personally I found when I started I'd pains in my left hand from under developed muscles,and I'd crap rhythm with my right anyway,so I sucked in both regards! at least fretting notes might not be so painful for him starting out

Hendrixfan

punchdrunk wrote: »

force yourself to learn right handed,
I don't think which hand you use to write really comes into it when learning an instrument guitar is 80% muscle memory and maybe 20% hand/eye co-ordination
the muscles you need to be developed most are the ones on the fretting hand anyway so by being a lefty your half way there already

if you get serious about playing your going to start curse being a lefty by around the time you buy your second,maybe third guitar

get a right handed guitar and get lessons for the first few months
honestly you'll thank me later!

I'm a lefty playing right hand. Your bang on. I took to the guitar and got to a good level of playing fairly quick. I guess it was down to my best hand on the fret board. I started out playing with a few mates playing songs at the kitchen table, they had been playing a good while before me. My mates are still at the same level as back then, I'm way past them at this stage. I might practice a bit more so thats part of it. I had a bit of trouble with right hand rhythm but over came it, playing the drums for years before hand helped.

Its allways a good idea to start out on acoustic first, so if this is your first guitar skip the electric for now, do the hard work on acoustic, it'll pay off when the time comes to play electric.

-=al=-

Yeah your writing hand/dominant hand etc shoudn't decide which way you play, but you have to do what feels natural

like i said im right handed but play guitar left handed, and would never ever change it, im lefthanded at a lot of things and right handed at a lot of things, whatever way works best for u is what i think you should do

Malice

I'm the same as Paolo_M and Hendrixfan. I play right-handed but I'm left-handed for writing, using the computer, playing pool etc. Having said that I'm not too sure about forcing yourself to play the other way around. You might be making things more difficult for yourself. What way did you hold the guitar when you picked it up first? My cousin is left-handed and when she picked up a guitar for the first time she held it left-handed without thinking about it.
Maybe there are degrees of hand domination when playing musical instruments or something?

im stuck! cnt tink of gud name

punchdrunk wrote: »

force yourself to learn right handed,

I've being playing for almost 4 years on acoustic so i think it would be very difficult to switch now

im stuck! cnt tink of gud name

Zombienosh wrote: »

Whats your budget?

my budget is 500 and thats streching it (i'm 15 so the guitar will be payed half by me and half by folks if i get good junior cert results

-=al=-

Malice wrote: »

I'm the same as Paolo_M and Hendrixfan. I play right-handed but I'm left-handed for writing, using the computer, playing pool etc. Having said that I'm not too sure about forcing yourself to play the other way around. You might be making things more difficult for yourself. What way did you hold the guitar when you picked it up first? My cousin is left-handed and when she picked up a guitar for the first time she held it left-handed without thinking about it.
Maybe there are degrees of hand domination when playing musical instruments or something?

Yea def, I can't even hold a guitar the right handed way it doesn't even sit on my lap properly or something its downright wrong i tells ya

My right hand is far better on the fretboard and feels natural enough, sometimes people just are awkward at playing

punchdrunk

im stuck! cnt tink of gud name wrote: »

punchdrunk wrote: »

force yourself to learn right handed,

I've being playing for almost 4 years on acoustic so i think it would be very difficult to switch now

your ****ed so!

punchdrunk

honestly I'd say this would be a great starting point!

http://www.amazon.com/Tribute-Legacy-Lefthanded-Sunburst-Rosewood/dp/B0002H0DJE

fantastic guitars!

im stuck! cnt tink of gud name

punchdrunk wrote:

your ****ed so!

Ha ! im not i've been playing rock on acoustic and my bar chords are ****ing savage and so are my riffs so HAAAaaaa!!!!Ha :P just want the electric to mess with effects (i'll show you yet)

nialldabass

Duane Allman, thats all I'm saying

Zombienosh

I recommend checking out Corts, the KX series is great.

RC88

http://www.thomann.de/ie/fender_sq_strat_lh_blk.htm

http://www.thomann.de/ie/epiphone_lp_std_eb_lh.htm

give one of these a look both are under 350 euros(so P+P will be free as their over 200) and are leftys, if ya got one of em with a roland cube(bout 150), i'd say yer laughing
and if ya dont have a card yet, look up www.3v.ie, they just charge a small fee to to up the card and there is no subscription

alternitive is to try a few pawn shops or cash converters, cause ya never know ya might find