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I play piano, and guitar, and couldn’t imagine life without either. If you’re a musician, surely you’ve 15 to 30 minutes to study another instrument if you wish. If you don’t wish to, don’t knock any person who does.
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05-08-2021 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
I don't believe I knocked anyone for taking time to study piano.
I simply don't believe that you should drop your guitar to go get some real music theory from the piano.
Admittedly ear training, ok, I acknowledge the usefulness ( via piano ) of many tones available there symmetrically and closed.
As for being a musician all I can say is that I try to improve myself each day.
Six voices are enough for me...if I had four more I know I'd step on somebody... and maybe too hard.
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I’ll have got a tremendous amount from the piano; there are useful things that really aren’t obvious the on the fretboard
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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The piano is clearly king, but the guitar's redeeming feature is the intimate relationship between player and instrument. The player has a lot to do with creating the sound. Fingers, flesh, nail, hands, and joints combine with metal and wood to create 'sound' resulting in a myriad of nuance. Pianos are more mechanical using levers, hammers etc that create the sound for you. You have control over dynamics but are physically one step removed from the sound. You could say, therefore, the guitar is more expressive in some respects.
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Originally Posted by Clint 55
I don't understand the remark that pianists "don't play one note at a time". Can you explain based on the vast piano literature?
Play live . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by Marinero
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Originally Posted by vsaumarez
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Originally Posted by rintincop
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I love how B. switches of his reverb after 30 seconds. That’s my favorite blues guitar solo ever.
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Originally Posted by rintincop
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One really cool example of progressive harmony that I don't think would occur to a pianist
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One advantage of guitars over piano is that they fit better in the role of "drum with a pitch". There's an awful lot of music that calls for a rhythm guitar to function as musch or more as a percussion instrument rather than a harmony or melody one.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
* I would like to send him some wire cutters, or at least some safety glasses.
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Starting after 4:30 is the most bizarre, yet hip, jazz piano technique ever. I love how the left hand keeps kicking normal chords in time. Warning, don’t try this at home:
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Oh yes, the George Adams - Don Pullen quartet, I saw them once, they were great. Don’s style kind of works somehow! I think they both played with Mingus (as did their drummer, Dannie Richmond).
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Another crazy pianist was Bobby ‘Wild Man’ Enriquez, playing here with Richie Cole and Bruce Forman (Bobby’s solo starts at about 4 minutes):
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"Also, you have to change your own strings and tune the thing, often." Litterick
Yes.
Play live . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by christianm77
Accomplished player but way to busy for my taste . . . was that a ballad?
Play live . . . Marinero
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I remember Bobby Enriquez. He was like a salsa piano, conga player, bebopper all rolled into one.
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Originally Posted by Marinero
Elias Prinz -- young talent from Munich
Yesterday, 10:24 PM in The Players