Q. I've been playing piano ever since I was 14, and I'm 17 now. I really enjoy it and find is super easy. About 4 months ago, I also started learning guitar, and I'm finding it absolutely impossible. The frets, the chords, the pick, none of it makes sense to me. It hurts my fingers to play it and I get confused every 5 seconds. Yet I've seen plenty of pop singers play it with no problems whatsoever (e.g. Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Niall Horan, Katy Perry). Is the guitar known for being a genuinely difficult instrument?
A. Well, you've been playing piano for almost four years and guitar for four months, so there is that (of course piano is going to be easier for you because you've practiced it a lot more).
I play both. Making a simple sound on a piano is easier, it's literally as easy as pushing a button, and while it may be harder to make a clean sound on a guitar, there are things about the guitar that make it relatively easy to play too. Guitar chords sound nice and they are relatively easy once you learn the hand positions.
Guitar also requires that you build up callouses on your fingertips, and once you do that it will be a lot easier and less painful.
Once you learn a few basic chords, you can do a lot with them. The arrangement of the strings on the guitar make it so you can make a pleasing sound (chord) with a single strum. With only three or four chords, you can play along to many rock or country songs, or, if you like to sing, like I do, it's relatively easy to accompany yourself. You can sing a lot of songs with only knowing a few chords.
Making a single sound on a piano is easy, but to play 'music' on the piano takes a little more effort. Often piano music is a lot more complex (though of course guitar music can be complex too).
It all depends on what kind of music you want to play.
How To Be A Singer Like Justin Bieber?
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A. Realize that the vocal chords, all the way up to the tonque, are muscles that can be strengthened just like your bicep!
Grab a piano and start with a middle C. Tune your voice to the note and sing it. Go as far up and as far down as you can. Do this warmup before every practice. Every practice, push yourself to go that one note farther up and down, just like if you were weightlifting!
As you increase your vocal range, you also want to control it. A large range is no good if you can't hit the note you want to hit! You train controlling your voice by singing arpeggios. If you don't know what those are, they are just the notes of a chord played one at a time. There are many videos on Youtube that can tell you what keys to press on a piano if you don't have someone who can do it for you.
The last step to singing like Justin Bieber is to practice mimicking songs that you know exactly. If you can match notes, you will soon learn how to harmonize and eventually, you can start singing your own songs like Justin!
Youtube has many songs you can practice on. Sometimes you can't tell if you're singing quite right, so ask your parents or friends to critique you until your ear develops!
Is the Piano harder than learning the guitar?
Q. So Iv never played the piano before but I play the guitar. I teach myself I used to have a teacher but he was terrible. And I like being able to play songs that I like. I only play the chords like I can Baby by justin Bieber ect.. though I dont know anything about notes or any of that. I just know chords. But I really want to play the piano so I was wondering can I play songs and stuff teaching myself or will I have to get a teacher which i really dont want.
Also is the piano harder than the guitar?
A. I've played over 100 different instruments in public (and a few dozen more in private) so I guess I'm qualified to address this--
There are some instruments that are easier to learn to play at first, others that are harder. Violin, for instance, is really tough to learn how to play at first because there are no frets so there's no wiggle room in the fingering, and the bow technique is a bear to get down. Oboe is hard because the reed is cranky and the fingerings are overly complicated (why oboists don't insist on the same key system as clarinets, saxes and flutes is a mystery to me).
Piano and guitar are both easy, comparatively, to learn how to play at first.
However, in my experience (and that of other multi-instrumentalists I've known), all instruments are just about equally difficult to learn to play WELL. So if you want to become an Eric Clapton on guitar (or even a Jim Croce), or a Van Cliburn on the piano, you have to put in around 20,000 to 30,000 hours of practice, depending on how early in life you start and how good your teachers are. Back in his Cream days, Clapton faithfully played through his 17 rudimentary guitar exercises daily--and that's why he's recognized as such a virtuoso.
One other comment--piano and guitar are two instruments where you can hurt yourself if you have bad hand position. I've known way too many self-taught guitar players who wound up with wrist surgery for tendinitis or carpal tunnel or other repetitive motion injuries. You can avoid that only if (a) you're really lucky and don't form any bad habits at first--unlikely! or (b) you start out with a good teacher who will correct your hand position for you--and don't think you won't need some correcting. A couple of months of weekly half-hour lessons is the minimum.
Have fun!
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