Don't forget....Jimi Hendrix played this way too. I learned to play guitar with a friend who played upsidedown. Really strange, since he is right handed. It is just the way he learned. As strange as the chords looked, in almost all cases his chords were formed by placing the same fingers on the same strings that I was...even though it didn't look that way. And yes, the sound of the fingers picking out the melody on the lower strings is unique and wonderful.