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Question: What instrument do you think is easier, the guitar or the keyboard!.!?
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I love to play both!.!.!.but for me it was difficult to play the guitar first!.!.!.and then my brother said to try playing the piano or keyboard first to train or exercise my fingers!.!.!.then when I began learning the guitar my fingers didn't hurt so much from holding the strings down!.!.!.but the guitar is more fun to play because there are unlimited ways to play and make your own sounds and tunes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I play electirc guitar and take lessons, and I've played my sisteres piano lots before without lessons!.The keyboard is easier to get a sound out of, because when you press a key, it makes pretty much the same sound no matter what!. You can see all the notes before you, low to high left to right, it's easy to get something that sounds alright!. On guitar, you have to press down the right place, right pressure, right angle, and pick at the same time!. Fretting (movement of fingers on the neck) on a guitar is more precise, you move your fingers only like 1/2cm sometimes!.

Reading music for guitar is easy if you're using tabs, its pretty much a picture of a guitar telling you what to do!. But that's not the proper way, both piano and guitar share the same kind of music, ie you have 5 lines and 4 gaps in between, and you've got to memorise their notes (Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit, FACE)!.
Electric guitar covers up your mistakes too, like if you turn it up loud, its a lot of distortion and stuff, so small errors are hidden!. But it's not good to learn that coz when you want to get better you can't rely on it!.

also, guitar is a physical exercise, you're wrists hurt lots if you sit down for 10hours and play really hard, you've got to keep checking you're technique to make sure you're not playing in a way that's bad for you're wrists!.

Guitar has lots of techniques too, not just putting a finger in the right place!. You can vibrate and bend strings, slide, tap, pick in different ways, hammer on and pull off, use wammy bars (thats not hard but its hard work to use one for too long, its not a technique really)!. You've got to keep your fingers in certain shapes to make chords too, they've got to fit perfectly so as not to touch the wrong strings!.

Piano has foot pedals too, my sister's only has one, but you can get 2 or 3 (i don't know why) and you've got to time them perfectly!. You've got to use ten fingers, on guitar you only use 4 or sometimes 5 on one hand, and you're pick on the other!. This could be an advantage or disadvantage, it gives you more options to play the same note (eg it might be easier to use 3rd finger than 2nd finger) but then you've got to co-ordinate more fingers too!.

The good thing about both is that you don't need absolutely perfect rhythm, (unless you're rhythm guitarist in a band) but you have to have some, I find its more necessary on piano!.

If you want to impress people with writing songs then guitar is better because a)its more popular b)simple songs can be very effective (eg smoke on the water, Iron Man, Sunshine of your Love, 7 Nation Army)
whereas on piano really good songs are really hard (in my pro opinion:)

If you're getting one choose it based on what you like the sound of, not on how easy it is!. Neither is really that easy!. If you want an instrument athat's easy, get something like recorder, that's what they teach you in primary school at my school anyway!. There's less technique!. Something that's almost easy if you're natural and one of the hardest instruments otherwise is drums, they're fun to play too, but you've got to get realllllly good like Cozy Powell or John Bonham to make solos that actually sound really good (lots of solos are good because of the skill involved, not the sound at the end of it all)!. Keep in mind its lots of work to get good, and practice is only fun if you really love it, coz it's so repetitive and at the time doesn't feel like you're getting anywhere (lots of theory)!.

If you like listening to rock get a guitar, if you like pop get keyboard (coz pop guitarists are jokes, they have little skill, just look at some of their tabs and you'll see)!. If you like classical get keyboard/piano, jazz=guitar,blues=guitar rap=oversized clothes & permanent anger!.

don't limit yourself to just these two instruments if you've got a choice, unless thats what you really want!. Thers bass, drums, woodwind, brass, violins!. Or try singing if you're good, that goes well with piano and guitar!.


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If u are willing to put in alot of hard work, the best would be the piano,
Ive been playing the piano ever since i was 5 years old, iam 23 now and now playing professionaly,

Piano is more harder in comaprison to the guitar,
cause the guitar is just based on chords, so ur left hand is all chords,

when choosing to play an instruement, u dont ask which one is easier, nothing is easy, unless u practice or work hard for,

U have to ask, wht instruement do u like best!? when u hear it!?

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Selecting an instrument is something that each individual must do!. To learn an instrument that someone else thinks is cool or easy is a big mistake!. You must listen to the instruments and make your own decisions!. Most have a limited view of each instrument!. Violins are thought to be for the classics!.(Check out) http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=M9VsoOfdE!.!.!. for Country or Rock!. (Check out)
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=P6CnW-MeG!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'd say the keyboard is easier especially because it directly maps to music!. Every note and chord is visible on a keyboard!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

For most people, the keyboard is easier to learn because it is based on more common arm/hand movements!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i learned on guitar,, piano is definitly easier to manually play, both are their own entity and equally as funWww@QuestionHome@Com

Guitar!. Easier to read TAB and coordinate your digits!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

keyboardWww@QuestionHome@Com

guitar plus guitars are less expensive than pianosWww@QuestionHome@Com

I suck at both equally I'd say!. I play the drums!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com