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 is the music theory same as playing guitar and the piano?
Q. I am trying to learn to play the guitar and I don't where to start. My friend told me it is like playing the piano, but I never played the piano before... HELPPPPP
A. You're asking 2 different questions.
Is the theory of music the same as far as chord progression, chord structure, notes in a scale, etc? Yes it is.
Is guitar like piano? No. You won't learn it the same way. Guitar is built around chord shapes, and piano is built around certain notes. This is why almost all piano players use sheet music, and guitarists don't like sheet music.
Anyway, enough of all of that. You certainly don't need to play piano to play guitar, so don't worry about comparing the two. You need a step by step instructional method that will guide you through what you need to know to eventually play in every key that exists. Check out my beginner series: http://guitarmann.com/articles/freebeginner
Stephen
How do notes on the piano relate to notes on guitar when using a capo?
Q. I'm trying to play a song on guitar with the capo on the second fret with the chords F, Am, G, and E. I don't fluently play piano so I don't know much about it. If I was trying to play those chords on the piano to match the ones played with a capo, what should I do differently? It just doesn't sound right.
A. When you use the capo, you raise the chords by a half step for each fret. That means that the F chord you're fingering actually is G on a piano..or even the guitar for that matter. If you move each of your chords up two frets, they become:
F â G
Am â Bm
G â A
E â F#
Do you understand what the capo does? It allows you to change key without changing the fingering of the chords. For convenience, we often refer to the capoed chords as "shapes" rather than chords. The F "shape" that you're playing with the capo on the second fret is really no longer an F. The capo converted it to a G. If you moved the capo up one fret, the same F shape would become a G#. I don't know if I made this any clearer or not.....it's always a bit difficult to explain.
Anyway, your piano chords should be G, Bm, A and F#
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