Drums or electric guitar?

Question

I want to start, so which one?

Answer 1

On which to do you feel most natural or passionate? What form -- jazz, rock, classical, country and western, blues, new age -- do you wish to play.

What do you feel would be the best vehicle to help move the consciousness of others upward? that moves them away from dark passions -- anger, hatred, slovenliness -- for music is a powerful force as real in its influence as are houses and planets; only signatured and configured in a more rarified atomic structure.

I played drum and saxophone and will someday return to playing. I tell you, they are distinct personalities as channels for music. No musical instrument, according to musicologists, is so pregnant of ideas as that of the drum. For drum is us -- when we are not even thinking about it. At the foundation of all music is rhythm, and drum is the example of pulse and frequencey and meter of all life, and rhythm is best exemplified in the drum.

The seasons depend on rhythm, the tides of the seas depend on it, the heartbeat, sunrise and sunset, the mother rocking her young infant to and fro, is rhythm -- and drum is the very embodiment of it.

The guitar has rhythm as part of its very makeup but as well has that capacity to accompany itself by means of its construction to convey of melody and harmony. Along with the piano, perhaps these instruments, drum, guitar, and piano along with Voice itself would do well to be required learning in brief in the early ages. We might add the woodwinds for its proximity to Voice. Drum and voice are the first-born of the musical instruments.

There is a hierarchy of musical instruments. At the top of this sets Voice, followed by the woodwinds; after this comes the strings and lutes (guitar is a lute), followed by the others.

Drum, however, is the most ancient of them all... For Drum is the first manifest instrument Nature played. At the subtle, chords carried, for all that we see in nature is a series of infinite permutations of melodies and chords.

Voice is. Drum does.

Like drum, guitar is infinitely flexible, fitting readily into any genre of music except European Symphony. And had electronics existed during the time of the height of the European symphonic era, we can just about be assured that the likes of Mozart and Beethoven would have written parts for the electric guitar, which is a brilliant, scintillating instrument.

Learn the rudiments, the reading of, the music and chords, and above all come to know the feel of the instruments and the musicians who play them. Learn beyond into the technical aspects. For bear in mind, because music shares a mathematical aspect, it was classed by the professors and sages and musicians among the Sciences in the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, which categorizing in Rome came to be later called the 'Quadrivium,' and which part included Geometry and Astronomy as well.

Not enough can be said of what Rock and Jazz did with these two instruments. Out of jazz came the greatest and the best drummers in the world (as typified in Buddy Rich, perhaps the only drummer who could really play and be willingly listened to by an audience without their wanting accompaniment with other instruments).

And out of America came the most influential guitarists in the world, which reads like a who's who on guitar -- from Rock to Spanish Classical.

Try by playing both instruments first hand to come to know best -- or do both.

Answer 2

i would go with guitar. I play it and it is alot more convienient to carry a guitar around than to lugg a big drum kit. Im not sayin its easier, but i think it has more possibilities than a drum set. Also it doesn't bother people as much. For example, you can play a guitar with or without an amp and with an amp you can still control the volume. With drumsthere is really only one volume... loud. Also it is cheaper.

Answer 3

There are advantages to both. Guitar is easily portable and can be taken anywhere, used for singalong (especially if u buy electro -acoustic). Practice is quieter (even with electric u can buy an amp with a headphone socket. However. If u want to get into Rock, drummers are in greater demand. Me, I'd still go for guitar, cos of its greater versatility. I play both. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Definitely guitar. Drums are a pain to take on gigs, takes forever to set up and tear down... plus you know what they say.. "guitar players get all the girls!"... worked on me!!!!!!

Answer 5

you can do both, maybe keep EG as the main instrument but try to add drums too as it might be refreshing for a change in some other situations, just keep the door open if you have the talent...

Answer 6

drum is easier and you have to be a person who has rythm and beat
electric guitar is much harder..but it's really cool if you can play it

Answer 7

both i know tons of people that play both very well

Answer 8

drums!
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