Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You

Re:Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You by tarsinge on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:48PM (#13017515)

I disagree for composition and improvisation : guitar is way easier for that from my point of view. Having always the same interval is the killer feature compared to the piano, where it's easy to play on white keys (C major/A minor scale) but then good luck changing scale, you have to know which notes are sharpened/flattened.

Whereas with guitar any novice can learn the pentatonic scale and then play on anything on the radio, by just starting playing that scale from a random fret and changing until it's in key with the song. All scales are the same on guitar, just starting from a different fret. You can go really far in composition in guitar without knowing which note you're playing, but just scales and chords positions.

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Re:Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You by rebootthesystem on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:00PM (#13018443)

I was also looping in the issue of being able to glide across the fret board with ease. This takes time and lots of practice. There's a reason why books like Pumping Nylon exist. It takes a lot of work to stop thinking about "where and how the f&%$ am I going to do that!" to having your mind free enough to improvise. In other words, to think about music rather than mechanics.

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