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Uploaded by on May 27, 2011

Guitarist Billy McLaughlin was diagnosed with a debilitating neuromuscular condition called focal dystonia that prevented him from using his left hand. So, he spent six years training his right hand to do what came naturally to his left. Jeff Glor reports on his inspiring journey.

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  • WOOT WOOT FOR MINNESOTA

  • I have a similar story - when I was a kid long ago I was considered to be a pretty decent lead guitarist. In the 80's I had to have brain surgery that totaled my left hand and that put a stop to my lead playing. Well, I wasn't going to let a silly thing like a cyst in my brain stop me from playing all together. So I switched hands, got into acoustic fingerstyle. I still play right handed but I'll never be a hot lead player again.

  • I'm gonna be the bad guy here and say why this video has so many thumb downs.It's because many people can do that.In fact many left handed people who already play guitar switch to right handed guitars just because theere is more variety of right handed guitars and because they want to play with any guitar they see not just left handed ones...

  • thats true passion! go Billy!

  • Amazing!!

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