I did left hand cords today until my hand cramped. Didn’t take long, about half hour.

I think the difference is that with guitar I can move the neck to accommodate my hand. I can’t adjust the keyboard and my hand just has to learn to deal with it.

Good for you, Mark, for taking on a very different challenge.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Good for you, Mark, for taking on a very different challenge.

Thanks. Over the many years, chords on guitar just became shapes. Just thinking about the notes that go into the chords, while it seems clearer in the layout of the keyboard, takes a long moment. This is going to take some work.

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Originally posted by mark123:
Over the many years, chords on guitar just became shapes. Just thinking about the notes that go into the chords, while it seems clearer in the layout of the keyboard, takes a long moment. This is going to take some work.

Keyboard chords are just shapes, and IMO a bit easier to grasp than guitar. As explained in the McCartney video "three fingers". What I noticed about McCartney's playing in the video is that he favors his right hand for chords and his left for polyphonic single note melodies and he is a left handed guitarist. I'm the same on piano (right hand chords, left hand melody notes), but I'm a right handed guitarist.