Anyone try the switch from guitar...

[Silentwiz]

... to piano?

I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I'm a few years into my journey on guitar, and I can't help but want to test the waters on piano. I appreciate that if I'm going to focus, it will detract significantly from my time on guitar -- but I am very tempted.

Mmmmmmmmm... Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson... Hampton Hawes!!!

[ksjazzguitar]

But it may make you a better musician. Go where your heart leads you.

Peace,
Kevin

[hurricanebob]

Tremendous training for both eye and ear, and hands. Piano is so fundamental to musicianship that some conservatories make you take two years if you can't test out. Good stuff!

[Silentwiz]

I think I'm going to go for it -- it certainly can't hurt my overall musicianship, although my fingers may get a bit weaker and my guitar-specific playing temporarily. It'll all come back, I suppose.

[lindydanny]

Go for it. I've got an old upright in my living room and I plunk on it every once in a while. It definitely helps me understand guitar.

~DB

[mr. beaumont]

I think it's great for any musician to be able to find their way around on the piano.

That's about all I can do, but theory makes a lot more sense there sometimes...Often I'll sit at the piano and ham-handedly work out an idea, then return to the guitar, and it's like "You open the door and the light goes on!"

[Baltar Hornbeek]

oh yah, pianos are great. That whole, left hand bassing - right hand trebler thing is the bomb.

although, there is a dark side to them tinkling ivories....

"The advent of pianos marked the beginning of a dark period in tuning. Harpsichords and harpsichord music were discarded along with the various newly invented closed tunings. Moreover, with the greater difficulty of tuning pianos, tuning became a specialized profession, divorced from the musicians who play them."-Robert Chuckrow

[Stackabones]

Yeah, go for it! But ya can't post here anymore.