Guitar or Piano? Why I wished I learned THIS instrument first 

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I agree. I have been playing the guitar for decades and I started on piano about 28 months ago. Mind you I learnt a lot of theory while learning the guitar.

As someone with the inverse experience (more exposure and play time on piano from an early age) I've definitely concluded that playing guitar helps me be a better piano player, but playing piano doesn't make me a better guitar player. Guitar is definitely the more rewarding instrument because it's a struggle. It's not that piano isn't challenging, it's that guitar is its own kind of challenge. It's much more physically demanding, requiring a lot of dexterity and precision in the fingers that isn't necessary for piano. Guitar demands strong bilateral coordination, a bit like the "pat your head and rub a circle your stomach" trick that isn't easy to do. That sort of motor control where your hands are performing different actions isn't part of the piano experience because both hands just hit keys and the keys just make the correct sound 100% of the time, whereas on guitar, it's not making the right sound at all if your fingers are even slightly off. The expensive mechanisms inside the piano take care of the physically challenging task to make the instrument sound precise and predictable. That all becomes your responsibility on guitar, and it's not easy.

Man as a guitsrrist myself i can just tell from the title. You are a guitar player who wished he started on piano hehe

best instrument to learn first is the one that gets you into learning music. Many people's first introduction into music is via their parents inducing them into the instrument readily available at home or via class, so most of the times, your choices are limited at the start whether you knew it or not. I think until you discover your appreciation of a certain instrument and your favorite genre of music, you'll then be interested in learning said instrument whether it be a piano, guitar, or even drums, sax etc. Motivation comes and goes and unless you're really enjoying the medium or instrument, your mileage may vary. However, all roads lead to Rome and understanding one instrument opens and elevates the ability to learn the other and you grow to appreciate your ability to transfer that skillset to the core of music theory.

The moment you need to transpose a scale on the piano though, it's a nightmare. Guitar you just move your hand around or use one of a few different shapes, but piano it's a different shape for every root of every scale.

Thank God I started both at the same time.

Best way to be good at guitar: play piano and study harmony.

I learned in a Casio Tonebank MA120 It was really fun but now that i picked up Guitar i can actually Play Songs i know. Tell me a chord and i Play it on Keyboard but i dont really know many Keyboard parts of Songs i like whereas Guitar parts are usualy the Focus of the Kind of music i listen to (Brit-pop, Rock and Metal).

I've only played guitar for couple of years after learning as an adult. Then I got stuck because I don't know enough to improvise or be very creative. Learning and memorising songs from tab only gets you so far so I started studying music theory and thought it might be helpful to buy a keyboard. After just one day playing a keyboard I'm frustrated I didn't start earlier. It's so much easier to translate theory to practice on a keyboard and start playing reading notation. Also, if you buy an electric guitar you will spend thousands on effects modellers, pedals, different guitars, amplifiers, speaker cabs etc chasing some mythical perfect tone or perfect playing guitar that doesnt exist. Its just part of the experience.

last week I started both xD

Btw regarding fretboard visualization go check martin Miller it will expand your mind he has tons of lectured on this

What about the soundings

Actually after this i dont know what tobuy as a complete beginner for me i love the piano’s sound more than a guitar and i can know that a piano is much easier but the point about the piano isn’t portable like the guitar its a big point for me so i still idk fr

Music theory is easier on the piano, but you can learn it just fine on the guitar. You will need to learn the notes on the fretboard and your intervals. As far as finding the notes its just something you have to practice. I know the nires with ease But after you've done that theory is easy to work with. You should learn what you want first. But any musician will find great value in learning even the tiniest bit of piano.

For me it's been complete opposite. I've been playing the piano for a while. Almost a decade I think. I just recently got my 'first guitar' (I had one prior to this but that one was very old and was braking down). What you said about music theory is something that I fully agree with. I few years ago I didn't know it even existed but when I found out a whole new world opened up. Knowing why songs sound the way they do, how the songs sound good why they sound good. Chords, chord schemas. How to make stuff connect together or get the feeling you need in music. Research genres but on a deeper level then only the instruments. I will have to say that the piano is almost just made for theory. Music theory in a way can be mathematical. You'l have to cound a lot to make things get together. I also feel like the piano is more of a clasically trained instrument, more than the guitar maybe is but I could be wrong. Correct me if I am. I have been enjoying the guitar a lot recently. Trying to play a song without tabs is still very very hard since I don't know what notes are there on the threadboard unless I count to 10-20 every time. Though it's nice to play something different, something new to look at music from a different angle.

Thank God my parents forced me to learn piano in my 3rd grade and then gifted me a guitar in my 8th grade.. personally i could learn myself many things in guitar since i knew the music theory through piano

I don't know man i wanted to get a guitar when i was a kid as its what the cool kids do. My dad didn't buy me that back then but he did by me a keyboard and harmonium to practice my vocal lessions. Now i have a guitar but when ever i wanna do music my hand only reaches for the keys. Its been 1 year and i still cant get around learning guitar. It feel so awkward. The shit is reversed there is no symmetry, always out of tune, have to re learn everything.

They Suck 😅