I am a 62 year old woman. Can I learn how to play electric guitar?

Good for you! You are not too old, until you are DEAD! Now - find a really good.

Degreed professional guitar teacher - NOT the stoner at the local music store. Or - take a group guitar class at a community college. Either way will get you started.

Start with acoustic - less to mess with, easier to think about the principles involved. (My son teaches acoustic guitar class at the HS where he is the choral director.) The whole *left-handed* thing is a bunch of hooey. There are self-taught DIY pplayers ( VERY VERY few turn out to be any good - most quit) who *mirrored* someone else, and thus the LH thing.

Frankly, LH people have more dexterity in their LH - so why flips everything over? Makes no sense whatsoever . .

. So - play the way that the rest of the planet does. Did you ever see left-handed violinists?

Only country fiddlers who taught themselves in the barn. Look at any orchestra section - if there are sixty player of violin and viola, then 10 percent (6) are lefties; they eat, write, etc, with their LH - but their instrument is played like everyone else. No, they are not psychologically scarred for life - like people in previous centuries who were beaten ( often by nuns - a whole 'nuther topic .) to change over to being RH.

What about pianists? The piano is the same configuration for all. So - enjoy learning.

You might want to wait until you find a good teacher, before you buy a guitar. Itchy to get it NOW? My son has his kids get Seagulls - good for rank beginners - I do not know what model.

There are some guitar experts here - gtrczar, Left-T, Russell - they will have opinions.

1. Start with acoustic! Learn your chords this way first.

Very easy to transfer to electric after. 2. Go ahead and take lessons!

But make sure you're taking from a reputable teacher. A good teacher will teach you everything you need to know about music while teaching you guitar. 3.

Most lefties just play regular guitar, but you can always get a guitar strung to be played left-handed. When you go to a guitar shop to purchase your guitar, ask them about this. They'll be happy to help.

(Paul McCartney played left handed bass!) 4. Can't help you here... but I'd be interested to know, too! =).

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