Should I play left-handed guitar?

-I'm left-handed, but I've been playing a right-handed guitar for years. I've never been very good at it. However, when I try to play with my left hand, my hand seems to play faster. So, I'm debating whether I should buy a left-handed guitar and see what happens or give up all together.



Any suggestions?You don't need to go as far as actually buying a left handed guitar as an experiment. In the short term, taking one of your guitars and stringing it upside down will suffice. Sure the knobs will be under your picking arm and upper fret access might be hampered etc, but it's only a short term solution.



Give it a try and see what you think, the worst that can happen is that you lose a month or so of practice time if you decide it isn't for you. But even then, the dexterity you will develop will still carry back over to playing right handed.



I'm an advocate of playing whichever way feels most comfortable to you, because you know what? It does make a difference, despite what some small minded players who have never had this dilemma seem to think. I see it all the time - people struggle to play right handed guitar for months (even years!) and once they switch to lefty they have a sudden epiphany and everything falls in to place. Bottom line, for some people it absolutely makes a difference. You'll find that most people who tell you otherwise have been playing for a LONG time and just can't shake off old-fashioned stereotypes.



Best of luck with whatever you decide to do.
Whenever I've taught left handed people, I encourage them to learn to play on right handed instruments. The reasoning is: 1. there are many more right handed guitars available and therefore a much bigger selection of instruments, 2. the left hand is doing most of the fingering work so a left handed person has this advantage on a right handed instrument, 3. all published fingering and chord charts are written for a right handed player and would be confusing to be interpreted backwards by a left handed player, 4. when learning something new, it doesn't really matter how you learn to do it. For example, if a left handed person wanted to play the piano, they wouldn't do so on a piano with all the keys arranged in the opposite order! My suggestion would be to keep working on the guitar the way you have started. Learning guitar is not easy for anyone and to blame your dominant left hand is probably just an excuse for not wanting to face the challenges.
If it feels more natural to play a left handed guitar then go for it. It makes it harder to learn piano (if you want to do that in the future) and left handed guitars are more expensive. There are also less models and styles of left handed guitars available. learning guitar is hard, whatever way around you learn it so I wouldn't expect to learn any quicker on a more-expensive left handed guitar. Go to you local guitar store and try one out.
bu a left-handed guitar, i'm right-handed (and used a right-handed guitar) but left hand was much easier for me