Whats easier to learn Piano or Guitar?

Question

Just wondering

Answer 1

The guitar is easier to learn, you've got basic cords you can work with... it's adjusting your style to play and have it sound good that gets tricky, but easier over time, plus your fingers will hurt for a hot minute while you learn. If you're able to read music then learn the piano, it's pretty simple once you learn how to read music, and you can play from ear a little easier... once you learn any string instrument they are all basically the same. I started playing the violin at first, then the piano, then the guitar... the guitar is something you won't forget without practice and the piano is the same... but you'll forget how to play the violin if you don't practice.lol

here's a link for beginners playing the guitar:

http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm

Answer 2

I would venture to say it's the guitar (the only instrument I play is the radio!) since so many people play it and have learned on their own (in Tennessee, almost every other person can play a guitar (or as they pronounce it over there a "GIT-tar").

Also, you can easily carry a guitar around; imagine trying to carry a piano around... Well, hold it a minute! Today there are these electronic keyboards that sound like pianos and can easily carried around, and they can even be made to sound like almost ANY other instrument but you need electricity or some power source... but not with an acoustics guitar.

I think it is up to the individual and how much he/she is motivated and what he/she likes and brings to the proverbial table.

I have known two people that taught themselves via books how to play on their own... and you would never believe it if you heard them play their pianos... one has a stand-up, and the other has an electric piano... goodness, he can make it sound like a steel band drum, an acoustics guitar or a banjo, or an electric guitar, an upright piano when he plays ragtime music of Scott Joplin, or like a grand piano when he plays his classical music; still, you can play an acoustics guitar almost anywhere... the park, the rooftop, the beach, in a car, the lakeside, a rowboat...

OK, my answer is the guitar!

Answer 3

Guitar is easier to learn but if you want more expierence over guitar or other instruments I would pick piano. I've been playing piano for 6 years now and I can just pick up an instrument study the notes and the fingering for about 5 to 10 minutes and I can start to play it even if it's totally new to me.

Answer 4

GUITAR! Definately. I just got a guitar about a month ago, and I can play a lot of songs already. You only need to know about 10 different chords and be able to play a whole lot of songs. Some songs you only need 2 chords to play along while you sing.

If you are using a guitar to play chords then it is MUCH easier to learn than piano. Piano is usually used to play the melody and accompianment of songs. Piano music is much more complicated than Guitar.

Of course there is extremely difficult Guitar music as well.

I suppose it all depends on what you want to play. It is just as easy to learn some chords on the piano as it is to learn chords on the guitar.

Answer 5

I had an easier time learning piano than guitar.

Answer 6

Well, guitar only takes single hand independence, piano sort of needs two hands doing different things.

I was playing piano before guitar but not very well.

I found guitar easier to learn, but it's hard on the fingers. Mine bleed for two weeks before I started developing callouses.

Answer 7

To learn to play an instrument is hard to answer because does playing chopsticks on the piano mean you can play, or does playing the start of nothing else matters by Metallica? To actually become good at piano and able to play most noteworthy classical or jazz music takes a few years. where as to play most guitar orientated stuff takes months.

If you are talking virtuoso, you can't measure, Steve VAi and Horowitz both dedicated lives, however to play "popular music" it takes a guitarist months while a pianist takes years so on that note piano is harder. To become known as a top class pianist takes your whole life.

In short if you want to be called a guitarist and play in a band it will take you months to learn from scratch, but for piano it will take a lot longer.

Answer 8

I learnt how to play a piano before I could play a guitar and people always told me that te piano was easier and they said since I could play a piano then I could easily play a guitar. I tried it and even though I knew my keys on a piano, the guitar is different. To me the piano is easier.

Answer 9

Piano. Haven't you noticed how many kids take piano lessons? Its because piano so easy to learn. Guitars are hard to learn because you have to stretch your fingers more and strum with one hand while you hold the strings down with the other. Guitars just take more coordination. I don't know why everyones saying guitars are easier. Piano is so much simpler.

Answer 10

Piano, because then it makes learning everything else easier because pianos have a range so extensive that it covers just about any other instrument, including the guitar.