Swanö´s bizarre guitar playing

[Metal Overload]

I just realized that Dan Swanö is Lefty, but the strange thing here is the way he plays guitar, the strings are in the opossite way, i mean Sixth string are on the first possition and the first string on the last.

Check it out

[ame]http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=s3MrtrP8LCM[/ame]

 

[LydonB]

that is pretty weird.

 

[AudioPhile777]

wtf...

 

[Keregioz]

Yeah, I've seen that done before. In Roger Water's live DVD "in the flesh" there's a guitarist (also lefty) who plays the whole gig that way.
I'm also a lefty but it's a mystery to me how or why someone would play this way. The good thing about this, I guess, is that you'll be able to play right handed guitars...

 

[iekobrid]

His older brother, Dag, plays righty. Dan must be self-taught from messing with Dag's guitars.

 

[StefTD]

our Bass player started playing the Bass when we formed our band, he's a lefty and played guitar a bit before that (normal lefthand guitar, strings setup normal).
He wasn't able to buy a bass so I gave him mine, and he just used it that way with the strings upside down for about 1 year and played a show that way, then he switched, but he's able to play both ways and he's also able to play very acceptable if he plays with the right, instead of his left hand.

 

[Djabthrash]

That's fucked.

Anyway that Bloodbath video is killer.

 

[Kazrog]

My guitar teacher through most of my college years was a lefty and could SHRED with the strings installed in either direction. Like it was nothing. Seriously...

 

[26]

The reason for the ability of some lefties playing right handed guitars well is probably the simple fact that they more often get in contact with right handed guitars (playing left/right with equal quality of course is crazy).
btw, you can do funny experiments in "ignoring" the left-/right handedness and transfer the better things that evolve, to your side.
Real sinistral idea :zombie:

 

[Atheist]

Bassist of yellow jackets play that way. And Rand Burkey, guitarist of Atheist - that's why he has insane vibrato on high E sting.

 

[smy1]

Man, that song is great. I gotta check this band out!

 

[LydonB]

Man, that song is great. I gotta check this band out!

Start with the album Resurrection Through Carnage.

 

[Youpimatin]

That's explain a lot of his riffs, but he plays like that since his youth (it's explained in the best of Edge of Sanity with some pics inside)

 

[Metal Overload]

I found it really weird but interesting as well, just yesterday tried to play backwards and is too difficult to me
Keregioz: i forgot that, in the Roger Waters Dvd, that guys used it that way too.

 

[RemoWilliams]

I'm a lefty and I can't even grasp how that works at the moment, nor how it would be comfortable, but, I've played right handed since I've been playing. None the less, he's always made awesome music.

Also, "Eaten" live is killer

 

[006]

That is odd. Bloodbath = teh win.

Start with the album Resurrection Through Carnage.

+1,000

I'm left handed (writing), but I play guitar, basketball, hockey, baseball and football right-handed. Until my sophomore year in high school I was essentially ambidextrous when it came to writing. I can't do it anymore because I just kept using my left hand more over the years. However, on drums I can play left or right handed, sometimes left only for certain beats. Whenever I buy my own drumset I'm going to need an extra set of hats, lol.

~006

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

My guitar teacher through most of my college years was a lefty and could SHRED with the strings installed in either direction. Like it was nothing. Seriously...

Yeah, I know a guy like that. He's an engineer at one of the studios around here, and he can just pick up anything and play it - left or right handed, with the strings either way.

I'm a lefty, and I started playing bass left-handed with the strings upside down (though I play guitar right-handed the right way up) just because my left hand was quicker at strumming. Once I switched to right-handed with the strings the right way up I lost the knack pretty quickly though.

Steve