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When I had a go on a Fender Tenor Tele, I knew full well that it was (then) tuned like the top four strings of a guitar. This did not prevent my fingers trying to position themselves on the fingerboard as if it carried six strings. RESULT - Trainwreck with some strings fretted twice.
Might be easier to try the Stanley Jordan approach.
Justin of Justin Guitar fame started playing left handed to see what it would be like starting out as a beginner and calls it Nitsuj (Justin backwards). It might be worth pinging him an email and explaining your situation and asking his opinion on how he found the experience because he's effectively put himself in your position (but obviously through choice). He might convince you to string it low E nearest your chin so you're playing recognised chord shapes.
Also. if you've a couple of acoustics it might we worth stringing them both ways and just learning your cowboy chords and seeing which you can adapt to quickest and that's your answer to the way forward. Obviously, you won't have to learn everything from scratch, just the playing side. A lot of playing guitar isn't just about the physical playing of the instrument itself.
Even if you have to sell your guitars then the financial hit might be "carbon neutral" to best describe it (not literally but you know what I'm trying to say). Maybe even better than that because aren't lefties cheaper on the second hand market? Good luck anyway. Hope you get back on track soon.
Ian
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When I work on left-handed guitars I do sometimes try to play them left-handed - it’s difficult, but it is definitely easier to get my head around if the strings are also the normal way with the low E at the top, which is by far the most common so I think there is a good psychological reason for that.
I would second the suggestion of bass, as well - it’s surprisingly different from guitar and might be easier to learn left-handed if you’re not trying to break as many old habits at the same time.
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Effectively, both learning to play upside down and learning to play left handed would both mean relearning the practical aspects of guitar from the ground up again. The muscle memory associated with fretting notes, vibrato and picking will be lost and you'll have to develop them again in the opposite hands.
Playing a right handed guitar left handed will present ergonomic difficulties regardless of which way you string it; the controls, cutaway, contouring and (in some cases) the neck profile will all be wrong. It'll be a wrench, but I'd recommend selling your existing guitars and getting a left handed guitar to start the process of retraining the muscles.
I trapped my left hand in the car boot just over 2 years ago and when I hammered on the roof to get my sons attention for help he misunderstood and drove off, dragging me after the car.
It broke all 4 fingers and made a right mess of my hand.
But 2 years on I am playing relatively normally, considering what happened, not without pain sometimes and I do concentrate on the Bass guitar mainly now.
Point is... I thought I wouldn't play again! So you may be surprised and make a better recovery than you expect
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