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Thread started 07/16/23 9:41pm

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Jesse (and other's) Guitar Question

I don't play guitar, so I'm sorta unaware of things with it.

But while watching Jesse Johnson videos recently, I noticed his peg tuners are on the understide of his guitar, not on top. Is it because it's a left-handed guitar? Is he left-handed? I think a lot of LH guitarists flip their guitar and sometimes restring it so the lower strings are on top, while others just leave it as a right-handed guitarist would string it.

Someone care to explain? Just a music nerd thing I'd like to know.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #1 posted 07/17/23 10:09am

jazzz
It's an ode to Jimi Hendrix (who was a lefty that played a rh guitar upside down)
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Reply #2 posted 07/17/23 10:13am

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Btw, Jesse's guitars are in a rh configuration, except that the headstock is reversed, the latter as said as "tribute" to Hendrix
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Reply #3 posted 07/17/23 12:29pm

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Is it a viable option for a professional to simply flip his guitar as a tribute to a dead rock star? That doesn't sound logical or feasible.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #4 posted 07/17/23 2:29pm

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Believe what you want to believe...

Jesse's guitar was not "simply flipped", his instrument is a special design, as I tried to explain above, consisting of a normal righthanded guitar body only equiped with a reversed neck. Nuno Bettencourt has a similar design. Even Fender did a righthanded Jimi Hendrix tribute Strat, see:
https://www.fender.com/en...02300.html
(however without reversed body, as would have been more in line with Hendrix' approach)
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Reply #5 posted 07/17/23 5:02pm

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Well - alrighty then.

I've just never noticed a guitar with a reversed neck like that.


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Reply #6 posted 07/18/23 2:07pm

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I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.

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Reply #7 posted 07/18/23 3:08pm

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Gooddoctor23 said:

I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.


I would agree that it is how you learn to play that makes the difference.

I am left handed but learned to play right handed because it was easier for my teacher to teach us in group. Ultimately all guitarists need accuracy and speed with both hands if they are playing lead anyway.

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Reply #8 posted 07/18/23 3:51pm

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Gooddoctor23 said:

I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.


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There seem to be some misunderstanding here...
Hendrix turned a rh guitar upside down, but also reversed the strings. That way, he could play lefthanded (left hand for pick, right hand for the fretboard), but in a normal way, i.e. the lower e string facing upward.
A few lh guitar players, and some more lh bass players are more radical, they reverse the entire rh instrument, including the strings. In that case, the thickest string is under. Example of this solution is Sonny T.
To make things clear: Jesse, Nuno, etc., play a completely normal rh guitar (including normal stringing), except that the headstock is reversed mostly as a visual feature.
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Reply #9 posted 07/18/23 3:56pm

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IanRG said:



Gooddoctor23 said:


I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.




I would agree that it is how you learn to play that makes the difference.

I am left handed but learned to play right handed because it was easier for my teacher to teach us in group. Ultimately all guitarists need accuracy and speed with both hands if they are playing lead anyway.


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To make things even more complicated, Mono Neon appears to be right-handed, but plays a right-handed bass upside down (including strings), as if he was left handed!
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Reply #10 posted 07/18/23 4:08pm

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jazzz said:

Gooddoctor23 said:

I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.

. There seem to be some misunderstanding here... Hendrix turned a rh guitar upside down, but also reversed the strings. That way, he could play lefthanded (left hand for pick, right hand for the fretboard), but in a normal way, i.e. the lower e string facing upward. A few lh guitar players, and some more lh bass players are more radical, they reverse the entire rh instrument, including the strings. In that case, the thickest string is under. Example of this solution is Sonny T. To make things clear: Jesse, Nuno, etc., play a completely normal rh guitar (including normal stringing), except that the headstock is reversed mostly as a visual feature.

Ok.....I get your point.

I didnt think about it that way.

hell I learned or started out playing the Guitar laying flat in my lap.......like a keyboard.

[Edited 7/18/23 16:10pm]

[Edited 7/18/23 16:58pm]

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Reply #11 posted 07/18/23 4:38pm

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Gooddoctor23 said:



jazzz said:


Gooddoctor23 said:

I see a lot of players playing the guitar upside down. It throws me off when I try it but it seems a lot of guys learn this way and it doesnt bother them. I don't know anything about a tribute 2 Hendrix, the folks that I know who do it, simply learned 2 play that way.



. There seem to be some misunderstanding here... Hendrix turned a rh guitar upside down, but also reversed the strings. That way, he could play lefthanded (left hand for pick, right hand for the fretboard), but in a normal way, i.e. the lower e string facing upward. A few lh guitar players, and some more lh bass players are more radical, they reverse the entire rh instrument, including the strings. In that case, the thickest string is under. Example of this solution is Sonny T. To make things clear: Jesse, Nuno, etc., play a completely normal rh guitar (including normal stringing), except that the headstock is reversed mostly as a visual feature.

Ok.....I get your point.


I didnt think about it that way.


he I learned or started out playing the Guitar laying flat in my lap.....like a keyboard.

[Edited 7/18/23 16:10pm]


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