This is a very important skill that many guitarists do not possess. The nature of playing the piano demands that both hands are put to use. Learning about complex chords can help our guitar arranging skills when layering guitars together. Learning piano will teach your ears harmony that isn’t generally available on guitar unless you have two or more guitars playing at once.
Exposure to such rich music will go a long way in making your guitar playing more interesting and give you ideas you wouldn’t have. The piano has the ability to play a bigger range of music, which explains why two players can play it at the same time in harmony. Being exposed to new, great music is bound to help our guitar playing, and change what box we put ourselves in. Learning to read music written for the piano will in many ways open up your boundaries so you can learn more guitar and also communicate with other instrumentalists.īesides, as we learn more tunes on piano, we undoubtedly will find a few things we never knew existed. This makes reading incredibly easy, as much as it makes it frustrating on guitar. But the good news is revealed in the previous paragraph: when you see a note on the staff, it only occurs in one place on the piano. The 300 years of music written for the piano isn’t taught or learned any other way. This is explained as follows: Image Courtesy of Pixabay The language used in piano learning is standard notation, and the best part is that it’s much easier to read than guitar. C is really the starting point of piano, as the other white keys follow in sequence: C D E F G A B C D …and so on. The white key to the left of that first black key is a C. Right now, just look at a group of two black keys. You see groups of two black keys and groups of three black keys. If you look at a piano keyboard, look at the patterns of black and white keys. Via Guitar WorldĮvery piano player can tell the keys and the notes since they are arranged in a standard manner, as described by Peter the post below: It’s a great center-point and home base to look at and study music. It’s like laying out a long piece of paper that has all the architectural plans for a building. “When you look at a piano, you can see every note. When one is able to catch this arrangement and how it works, the knowledge will greatly assist in learning the guitar, and other instruments too. This is very different from the guitar, which doesn’t have such an arrangement. The way the piano is structured gives one a bird’s eye view of all the notes and keys in a continuum. A lot of people play just enough piano to write a song or figure out chord changes.
“And you don’t have to become a great pianist, that’s not really important.
“I think understanding the piano really helps,” he explains. The piano gives a comprehensive understanding of the entire music learning spectrum. He clarifies that you need not master the piano, but a good understanding of how things work will give you the advantage when learning the guitar. In particular, he says, the instrument’s layout can give players a valuable perspective on music. Speaking recently with Total Guitar, Johnson said that learning the basics of piano playing is an essential part of becoming a well-rounded guitarist. This advice is given by Eric Johnson who is skilled in both the piano and the guitar: Image Courtesy of Wikimedia The basics of the piano-learning rules will go a long way in helping you to learn the guitar more efficiently. The following account by Christopher Scapelliti gleans on the observations made by a well-known guitarist: There is an interesting perspective on these two instruments that will give you insight in learning the guitar. It is not uncommon to hear of a significant percentage of any given population that had an opportunity to learn either of these instruments, even if they did not master them. The guitar and piano are instruments that are found all over the world and compared to other instruments, they are easily accessible.
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