http://www.guitarator.com Guitar and music theory tools, lessons, webapps, articles. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:01:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-400 jabberwocky Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:01:36 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-400 I play both and I find that the Piano can handle more complex music and is easier on your hands. don't get me wrong the guitar has alot of complex music...but try to play Rachmaninoff sonata on a guitar >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbJn_NkkM4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5OstYSTt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5OstYSTt4]]> http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/intervals/comment-page-1#comment-392 belchism Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:38:39 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/intervals#comment-392 hello ed,
i have recently found your site VERY useful. i already know basic theory but reading these past few pages has made more sense than my guitar teacher or girlfriend (who is a music prefect) ever did. i would just like to thank you so much for this website and i expect to get alot of usage of it. thank you so much. i just love how friendly you are in your words. its nice to see someone so down to earth helping others.
my thanks,
Rilly Ross, lead guitarist of "Eagle Park"
:) i have recently found your site VERY useful. i already know basic theory but reading these past few pages has made more sense than my guitar teacher or girlfriend (who is a music prefect) ever did. i would just like to thank you so much for this website and i expect to get alot of usage of it. thank you so much. i just love how friendly you are in your words. its nice to see someone so down to earth helping others.
my thanks,
Rilly Ross, lead guitarist of "Eagle Park"
]]> http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-391 belchism Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:05:34 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-391 @toby it sounds like your the one with the big ego. guitarists can read muisc as well. infact john frusciante of the red hot chili peppers cant even read tab! stop being stuck up and appreciate music for what it is. http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/my-problem-with-jazz/comment-page-1#comment-389 admin Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:58:40 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/my-problem-with-jazz#comment-389 Thanks for the thoughts, Dave. I'll definitely try giving a listen to some of those guys you mentioned. http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/my-problem-with-jazz/comment-page-1#comment-388 Dave Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:54:32 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/music-theory/my-problem-with-jazz#comment-388 I feel the same way about certain ivory tower classical composers (Schoenburg, Boulez) as you do about jazz. I do feel that the innovations that came with Bebop and later styles of jazz can be very accessible - but like Phish - you have to find the right stuff. Even Coltrane's album "Trane's Blues" is all blues-tinged jazz, nothing much abstract about it. Wayne Shorter (who played on Steely Dan's album Aja) has some good stuff - Speak No Evil. Oscar Peterson - greatest piano player of all time influenced Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer. The list goes on. The jazz greats influenced many great rock/pop musicians. I'm sort of a jazz/rock fusion guy myself. Check out Jean Luc Ponty's album Cosmic Messenger or Enigmatic Ocean or Billy Cobham's album Spectrum. http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-386 David Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:50:53 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-386 You forgot the fact that you can play the same note in succession much faster than a piano not to mention arpeggios. http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-359 toby Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:27:03 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-359 things a pianist can do that a guitarist cant 1. read more than one line of music. 2. read music 3 play vastly more notes at once. 4. play something that sounds so much better. 5. not suffer from a huge ego i could go on forever http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-332 admin Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:41:26 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-332 Thanks Peter. I actually knew that! Sorry for the mistake. I've fixed it in the text. http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-331 Peter Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:23:03 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-331 David Gilmour played guitar for Pink Floyd. Waters played the bass/ http://www.guitarator.com/opinion/things-a-guitar-can-do-that-a-piano-cant/comment-page-1#comment-318 Scott Evans Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:20:27 +0000 http://www.guitarator.com/?p=57#comment-318 I would agree that guitar has gained much more of a mainstream existence than piano for a number of reasons. Mainly, the direct finger-to-pulsating string contact just can't be reproduced on the piano. It's raw, it's brazen and it's sometimes dirty, but it's that pure emotion that gets channeled through your fingertips to the instrument that cannot be feigned which makes it such a popular choice.

With the piano, there are a number of "buffers" and interworkings between your fingers and the final hammer-to-string strike making it seemingly more indirect. In piano's defense, there are also many things that it can do that the guitar can only dream of -- need I say, almost twice as many notes can be played and melodic intricacies that only a piano could belt out?
With the piano, there are a number of "buffers" and interworkings between your fingers and the final hammer-to-string strike making it seemingly more indirect. In piano's defense, there are also many things that it can do that the guitar can only dream of -- need I say, almost twice as many notes can be played and melodic intricacies that only a piano could belt out?]]>