Q. I've played guitar for seven years, and I'm taking up guitar. About how long does it take to get really good at guitar, and does being pretty good at piano help with learning guitar?
A. If you have 7 years of piano under your belt you probably know more music theory than most guitar players ever will. You will also benefit from the fine-motor control/dexterity that you have developed. If you have practiced with a metronome then you should have good timing which will also transfer nicely. Learn a few basic chords-G, C and D for songs in G and A D and E for songs in A. There really is no substitute for time spent with the instrument and the fingerings will not translate. Guitar is harder on the beginner's Left hand (if playing righty, opposite if'n you're a southpaw) but your nerves become desensitized fairly quickly and then the callouses start to develop. It is irrelevant whether you start with a pick or fingerstyle but after a while try the other as both styles produce effects the other style really can't match. Once you can make the changes and keep your rhythm going you're ready to tackle other keys and to get your barre chords down. Do not be intimidated-there's an old joke you might find encouraging: how do you get a guitar player to turn down? Put a chart in front of him. How do you get him to turn off? Put notes on the chart. With 7 years of piano you won't have those problems and using only your left hand to make chord shapes will be easy. Last tip: more than half of playing guitar involves muting the unused strings-let your fingers touch the strings next the ones you hold down; it might seem like poor technique but it actually makes the guitar sound better and the shapes easier to hold and play-Eddie VanHalen often uses only part of one finger and no one can say he can't play. You'll be fine. Getting good can take as little as a month or as long as a decade-depends on your criteria and your self-discipline and how much time you can devote to practice. Give yourself permission to be terrible, take the time to actually tune up every time you play and you won't be bad for long. Cruise the web for resources-there's a lot of material to help anyone learn to play.
How do you play notes on piano from guitar chords?
Q. i'm trying to learn a song on piano but i can only find the guitar chords to it. i would like to know how you play the notes out of the chords. thank you
A. Depends on the printed layout you've got for the song in question. If you just have the little grids with pictures, it can be harder to match the chords with note letter names. But if you have the names of the chords, it's best to learn to "fake" the chords on the piano, rather than try to play the exact guitar chord notes on the piano.
If you try to duplicate the notes of the chord on the keyboard, it'll work; but it won't sound as good on the piano as on the guitar. Guitar melody chords are already inverted and voiced to sound good when you're singing along, but they sound thin and incomplete when transferred to a keyboard, which is capable of much more complex chords than your average guitar player's fingers can handle. It's a question of digits: 4 on the fretboard for most guitar chords, vs. up to ten (!) to help you accompany a singer on the keyboard (not to mention what you can do with the pedals).
Learning to fake the chords and picking good voicings on the piano keyboard to make the song work is an art unto itself. It's not quite playing by ear, although there's some of that involved as you advance to alternative voicings and inversions.
If you can read music (and know basic keyboard notes), and you know scales, then you've got a good start on faking chords already. You can pick up the basics in 4 or 5 lessons with a keyboard teacher, or you can get a beginner teach-yourself chord piano book (sometimes listed as "adult" piano methods--self guided or otherwise) and go at your own pace.
Here's a good site for some general information: http://www.pianochordfinder.org/html/piano_chord_charts_flash_8.php (Note: I'm not affiliated with this website, nor did I take any information from it. It looks well done and simple, though)
I want to learn how to play the keyboard and guitar. Which is the easiest one to learn?
Q. I'm 19, and I want to learn how to play the keyboard and acoustic guitar for funsies. Of the two, which should I learn to play first? And also, since I'm musically challenged, do you have any beginner tips for someone like me? Thanks!
A. I have been play both for a number of years and taught myself, so I know first-hand that keyboard is A LOT easier to learn when just starting out.
It's because it's so straight forward, you go higher on the keyboard the higher the note is going to sound, no strings attatched. Guitar has the same rule with the fret board, but seeing as there are 6 strinks, it's not as easy as keyboard.
When starting out on piano or keyboard, don't skip practising scales. Many of my musical friends who also taught themselves keyboard skipped them and have a harder time than me getting their fingers to hit all the notes in a difficult song.
Also, this might just be me and might not work for you, but when I learnt I learnt the treble clef first and got it down perfectly for a long time before I learnt the base clef.
"Easy piano" is when you just use the treble clef and read music with guitar chords on it. Instead of playing the base clef you play the chord (which doesn't require any knowladge of the base clef) either by itself or "running" it in whatever time the music says (ie. 4/4 time, 3/4 time etc.)
Starting out with easy piano before learning the base clef and learning classical songs like swan lake and greensleeves is easier then learning modern songs.
Starting out at guitar, learn struming before picking. Practise everyday so you form callouses. My Mum who taught herself and I both practised until our fingers bleed and even then put bandaids on them and kept playing. Practise chords from chord charts. You must practise strumming and strumming patterns everyday, without even playing a song. just either leave the chords open or play a G chord and practise just...strumming. It's so important. Just like scales on the piano XD
Try changing from a G chord to a C chord repetitively. If you can do this super super fast and without it sounding weird, wel that's extremely good.
Bar chords: don't try this until you have mastered normal chords. And don't give up. Hold the chord as hard as you can and devlop string chord holding finger muscles. My dad taght himself guitar when he was my age and would sit in class practising holding a bar chord on his ruler :P I was too lazy to attempt this.
And it really helps if you have someone who knows how to play to guide you (which doesn't nessicairly mean sitting down and teaching you. Just someone you can talk about playing with occasionaly). My parents helped me get started and I helped my friends. lol we are all to cheap to get lessons.
Sorry for the information overload. A lot of the stuff might not make sence if you've never played before but you'll get it quickly once you start playing.
oh, two more words: youtube tutorials.
That is all.
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