17 May 2011

Lefty guitarists and their styles

Last time I talked about the different ways to play the guitar. Wouldn't it be great to show you a few examples of guitarists and their styles? I'll give you my favorites.

Babyface
First off. Babyface. A great producer and musician overall. He wrote some of the greatest RnB songs, including 'End of the Road' performed by BoyzIIMan and 'My my my' performed by Johnny Gill. In the following youtube vid we see him together with Eric Clapton on 'Change the world'. He plays a right handed guitar upside down. To me he manages to pull it off. But I wouldn't call his guitar play all to spectacular.




Mark Knopfler
You might have guessed it. I'm a bit of a Mark Knopfler fan. Keepin' it acoustic, I want to show you this version of 'Romeo and Juliet'. A great song. Wonderful fingerpicking. You'll see him playing the guitar right handed, although Mark himself is a lefty. I skipped to the song.



Kurt Cobain
A left handed guitarist playing a left handed guitar. Sounds quite simple right? Kurt Cobain, late singer of Nirvana. It's him and his band performing 'Come as you are'. A great live acoustic performance.

14 comments:

  1. BremsyMay 17, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    Kurt Cobain takes the gold ;]

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  2. NoisesMay 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    didn't recognize that he is a left player

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  3. botjiMay 17, 2011 at 3:10 PM

    The nirvana performance is great, I rarely notice if someone plays with their left or right hand!

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  4. S41May 17, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Kurt Cobain is the best.

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  5. Pappa PüllïMay 17, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    I would go for Kurt Cobain!

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  6. TDJMay 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM

    Seem to be a lot, Kurt Cobain fans!

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  7. Benji RadmanMay 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    If i remember correctly, Knopfler wrote romeo and juliet especially for that steel guitar, and the sound is just amazing :)

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  8. VolpesMay 18, 2011 at 10:37 AM

    ohh hes actually a lefty.. hmmmm

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  9. DootzkieMay 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    All hail Clapton!

    Listened to him live... Just amazing

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  10. EzzMay 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Most of these guitarists are amazing.

    My least favourite guitarist there is Kurt Cobain, though he made up for it by being in an awesome band.

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  11. Nom de PlumeMay 26, 2011 at 9:48 PM

    I really liked that babyface one... never heard of him before!

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  12. SpongeworthyMay 29, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    Paul McCartney is also left-handed. I'm Right handed myself, but playing the guitar left handed feels more comfortable for me. Strange isnt it?

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  13. The Rev. ArchimedesMay 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Jimmy Hendrix?!

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  14. JeffJune 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    Kurt Cobain is still one of my favourites. Yeah agree with the Rev, needed Jimi Hendrix

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