Q. i aldready play the violin so i want an instrument that will benefit me, and help me improve in my technique. I also want to know what is relatively easier to learn. Please tell me why you think the instrument you chose is better.
A. No instrument is better than one another. They will both require years of practicing and both can sound amazing and very nice if played correctly and well. As for improving your technique on the violin, guitar would be best since you are practicing strumming the strings and doing Pizzicato a lot, which is also commonly done on the violin, but not as much. If you are really passionate about the violin, guitar would be the most beneficial to you. However, if you want a change in instruments and want to play something different than the guitar that can still play the same basic things as piano like rock music and pop music, including classical music which can also be done on the guitar, piano would be a good idea. Since you already have a basis for classical music on the violin, you may find guitar a wiser decision because you will be exposed to a lot of interesting types of music and have a variety of music to play. However, piano would be a good choice if you are truly passionate about playing classical music like on the violin. Piano is easier to learn at first as far as where the notes are located because there are thousands of chord combinations on the guitar and the notes aren't laid out for you on a guitar like on a piano, but once you know where the notes are located on the guitar, guitar gets easier and you can play songs with chords very easily. Piano involves a lot more simultaneous playing and thinking than the guitar for most songs and pieces. Whichever instrument you choose to learn, good luck learning it!
Maxwell
How to learn and play piano (keyboard)?
Q. I have been in choir for three years through middle and high school and I can sightread at an intermediate level. I have had a keyboard for a few years and I would like to learn how to play. However, I'm not sure what notes are what (if that makes any sense) and that's really what I think I need to learn. I would like to eventually play and sing some songs together. Any ideas? Websites, books, etc.?
A. I'm 56 now, but I can still remember pulling myself up at the age of 2 and touching my first piano keys. Knowing even then that I wanted to learn how to play that "thing" one day. A rough life prevented me from ever getting near a piano again, but I did manage to teach myself some guitar over the years. In the 80's I managed to take two semesters of piano at a community college. But they only focused on music theory with little to no time actually playing a piano. I didn't remember a thing and still can't read sheet music without a major struggle.
Last year I got a good ebay deal ($35) on a new Casio CTK-5000 keyboard, thinking, "Now, at last, I will learn how to play." I got frustrated soon and set it aside, with only having myself to teach myself, as has been my whole life. (Disabled, can't afford lessons. Buying that keyboard was even a stretch.) Last week I picked it up again and thought, maybe there's a better way. So I just tinkered around on it, picking out tunes by ear, entertaining myself with all that these new keyboards can do. Then I stumbled on two short e-books I found online in some binary newsgroups. "How to Play Popular Piano In 10 Easy Lessons" by Norman Monath, and "Play Piano in a Flash" by Scott Houston. I read the second one because I had seen him do a pledge-drive show on PBS, and lights went off. All the chords were just simple repeating geometric patterns! A thousand times easier than learning all those complex guitar chords. Then I read about half of the first one "Popular Piano In 10 Easy Lessons" and it explained the patterns to all the chords that the "Piano in a Flash" book didn't cover.
That was 2 days ago. Last night I thought I'd put what I had read to a test. I got out one of my guitar cheat-sheets (I've played guitar by ear for ages). My cheat-sheets are just chord names and words, no notes, no other notation. From that alone and what I learned from those two small books I was able to play "Vincent - Starry, Starry Night" by Don McLean on a keyboard from start to finish. Not fast, not without mistakes, but recognizable, and it still sounded really nice even when played that slow my first time. Here it is over half a century later since first wanting to play piano/keyboard and it only took TWO DAYS to figure out how to play one! If only someone would have told me so long ago what I just learned in only two days.
Get those two small books, read them.
what are the chords to Amazing Grace on the piano?
Q. My mom's learning to play, and she keeps wanting me to tell her the chords and I don't know them, so any help? :)
A. Amazing Grace
G C G
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
Em D D7
That saved a wretch like me!
G C G
I once was lost, but now am found;
Em D7G
Was blind, but now I see.
G CG
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
EmD D7
And grace my fears relieved;
G C G
How precious did that grace appear
EmD7G
The hour I first believed.
G CG
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
EmD D7
I have already come;
G C G
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
Em D7 G
And grace will lead me home.
G CG
When we've been there ten thousand years,
EmD D7
Bright shining as the sun,
G CG
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Em DG
Than when we'd first begun.
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Title : What instrument is better piano or guitar?
Description : Q. i aldready play the violin so i want an instrument that will benefit me, and help me improve in my technique. I also want to know what i...