piano vs guitar

[bigrash]

Piano.

 

[Jeeebus]

violin > both

 

[Gibson486]

The piano... it's just so much more versatile.

However, if you purpose is to learn enough to get laid, then the guitar.

 

[Zeze]

I think piano is the most graceful instrument bar none.

Having that said, guitar just rocks.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Its one of these what do need more, your arm or your leg questions.

whether its just one limb or both, the obvious answer is keep the arm(s) lose the leg(s).

 

[gorcorps]

The piano... it's just so much more versatile.

However, if you purpose is to learn enough to get laid, then the guitar.

I don't see how the guitar is less versatile. Technique changes style, as does post processing effects and even tuning. You also have much different sound in acoustic vs. electric. Then of course you even have bass guitars.

I'm not saying pianos AREN'T versatile, but I think the gap is much closer than you're claiming (and IMO slightly favors guitar, but there's bias involved there).

 

[CptObvious]

Both are equally awesome.

 

[KentState]

The guitar is a portable douche version of the piano.

In all seriousness, this is like arguing chocolate vs vanilla.

 

[FallenHero]

The guitar is a portable douche version of the piano.

In all seriousness, this is like arguing chocolate vs vanilla.

With chocolate CLEARLY being the winner. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS!

 

[nanette1985]

I'm changing my vote to harp harptallic baby!
http://www.harptallica.com/

Some of those samples are more successful than others. Interesting.

 

[super_sinbad]

Piano

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Love the piano, probably the best instrument to learn on, but the guitar is so much more versatile, you can change tunings fairly easily, and it's alot easier to carry around.

 

[zinfamous]

Best of both worlds:

keytar is god

/thread

 

[zinfamous]

I'm changing my vote to harp harptallic baby!
http://www.harptallica.com/

WLHTN



(would learn harp to nail)

 

[zinfamous]

The guitar is a portable douche version of the piano.

In all seriousness, this is like arguing chocolate vs vanilla.

well, sometimes I prefer vanilla, but that in no way is an endorsement for vanilla over chocolate. that's commie talk!

 

[Nik]

Musically, in my opinion, the piano is far superior. Even the best classical guitarists can't touch a piano... you can only do so well plucking strings.

The guitar involves strumming strings, too, and pianos strike strings with hammers. You can simply play more notes at once with a much more broad range of available frequencies.

Musically, the piano is superior because of the skills it can potentially teach you. You'll learn more on a piano about theory and all that than you ever will on a guitar.

However, guitars attract more dumb broads, so one has an advantage over the other depending on whom you ask.

 

[darkxshade]

On the merits of music itself that is created, the piano. For everything else, the guitar... which is more portable, is more versatile(electric, acoustic, classical, bass, etc), easier to learn, generally cheaper, plus you can learn songs with simple strumming patterns.

 

[Gibson486]

I don't see how the guitar is less versatile. Technique changes style, as does post processing effects and even tuning. You also have much different sound in acoustic vs. electric. Then of course you even have bass guitars.

I'm not saying pianos AREN'T versatile, but I think the gap is much closer than you're claiming (and IMO slightly favors guitar, but there's bias involved there).

Well, that is your opinion and I am not gonna argue because the last thing I want is for a 200 post thread discussing this. (BTW, I favor piano and I have played guitar for years).

 

[dwell]

Nobody ever got laid playing piano.

 

[Nik]

Nobody ever got laid playing piano.

Not true! The last recital I did got me laid :biggrin:

 

[Fritzo]

Not true! The last recital I did got me laid :biggrin:

That was ballet, not piano, and his name was Frank.

 

[Nik]

Haha

 

[Terzo]

First off, if we're going to bring electric and bass guitars into the game, then keyboards should be fair game as well. And people can do some pretty awesome stuff with keyboards.

Personally, I like piano better because I feel you can do so much without accompaniment, especially covers. So many people do covers of all types of songs on their pianos, something that would be much harder with just a guitar. Some of the covers are damn impressive. Then again, I'm easily impressed.

And figure I should mention I'm not biased by my instrument. I only play violin (play being generous), but I'd really like to pick up both piano and bass guitar later on in life.

 

[Nik]

And figure I should mention I'm not biased by my instrument. I only play violin (play being generous), but I'd really like to pick up both piano and bass guitar later on in life.

I started with the violin for just a few months during the school year, then moved to piano for years in JrHigh and HS. I started drums during high school and kept those pretty much as my core instrument group until just a few years ago when I picked up the bass guitar. Piano has, in no small way, blasted an easier path down the road of multiple instruments more than any other instrument has.

If you can play the piano, you can play anything. If you learn the piano first, everything else will be far easier.

To the OP, don't be intimidated by that, it's not supposed to imply that piano is the hardest thing to learn.

 

[Doppel]

I've gone from piano as a kid to guitar as a teenager and now as an adult tinkering with piano again. I have to say it is absolutely the best instrument ever made and puts the guitar and all others to shame.

There is basically no instrument that can even be within the same ballpark as the piano in the hands of a good pianist.

Unequivocally it is the best instrument ever made, and by far. Unlike, say, percussion it can exist by itself (as can the guitar and some other instruments) but has a more complete sound and applicable to more genres of music as well.

EDIT: I didn't even mention how the nice thing about piano is, to add to the above, its excess weight meaning douchbags don't pull it out at parties and start playing.