Musicians Come!

[Bojack]

Anyways, enough of this pointless debate.

What've you guys been playing in vent? Do you put the mic up to the amp or sound hole or what?

We have acoustics. Way to make me feel sad. ;_;

We really just share riffs and stuff. We can't play anything too fancy. =(

[Bojack]

The piano is a stringed instrument.

The electric guitar owns the hard rock genre. Whoopdee-frickin-doo. Last time I checked, Mozart > any hard rock artist, and he didn't write a thing for the electric guitar.

The piano can be as soothing as a fresh breeze, or as commanding as a storm at sea. You can perform up to ten different notes at one time with each of your fingers, while a guitar can usually only perform one chord at a time with up to six fingers (although I'm sure there are possibilities for multiple chords, given that they don't overlap too heavily, and given an incredibly talented guitarist).

Acoustic piano easily destroys acoustic guitar. Acoustic piano destroys electric piano. Acoustic piano destroys, dare I say it, the electric guitar. No matter how hard you try, there are things that a piano can do that an electric guitar can never do. The range is greater. The piano's library is far larger. Beyond this, the simple sound of the hammer striking the strings is beautiful in its own right. Both passive, and aggressive.

If you prefer the electric guitar, that's fine. But when it comes down to it, the piano simply out-performs the guitar as an instrument, despite this being an almost impossible thing to measure.

Hold that thought. I have to go home.

[Kami]

Hahahaha. I have an acoustic too. When are you guys doing it?

[Kami]

I'm in your vent rocking your casbahs

[Pigero]

I'm 18 Notes Per Second. 21 on a Good Day.
Without making a piano sound like shit, you can prolly get...what....20 max?
And I'm basically a n00blet at guitar compared to most pros. My guitar teacher is 30 NPS. Zakk Wylde, Slash, and many neoclassical guitarists, such as Yngwei, are in their 40's. The world record is 60.
60 Notes Per Second > 20 Notes Per Second, last time I checked.

And listen to Buckethead. Please. Everything you said a Piano can do, he can do better, 'cept with a guitar in hand.

You're trying to say that Piano has a wider variety and ability then guitar, but you've probably never touched a guitar in your life. Of the instruments I play, Guitar is my least favorite (though it's what I'm best at), and I can safely say it's easily as vertile as a piano. Especially electric guitar, with phasers and suppressors and distortion and overdrive, Wah-Wah, reverb, chorus, and other such pedals.

Acoustic Guitar is a very underrated instrument. I know it's not necessarily "Modern Rock," but check out music on an Acoustic Guitar with heavy mexican influence. Though it may not be as "Wide Ranged" as your beloved piano, it can easily do just as much.

"The piano can be as soothing as a fresh breeze, or as commanding as a storm at sea. "

So can a guitar. I actually find the noise the piano makes to be quite annoying.

Alls I'm sayin' >.>

(Why do I get in an argument every single time I log on...?)

[Kami]

They are both great, and they are both versatile, both suited to multiple genres of music. Both will send chills down your spine when played well.

Enough with the fanboy ranting ='(

[Raditzu]

People are going to go back and forth whether or not you tell them to stop.

[Waffuru]

That's why you cut off all of their fingers and hope they don't have speech recognition set up.

[Blind Man]

Everybody play theremin instead.

[Kami]

Theremin is crazy bananas.

[Celipa]

I'm getting a bass guitar soon. Payday's been delayed a bit, but I'll have a huge lump of money in my hands when I do finally get paid. Any recommendations as to what kind of guitar to get?

I'm not getting anything that's not bass.

EDIT: I also need to learn how to play. >.>

[Kami]

I'm getting a bass guitar soon. Payday's been delayed a bit, but I'll have a huge lump of money in my hands when I do finally get paid. Any recommendations as to what kind of guitar to get?

I'm not getting anything that's not bass.

EDIT: I also need to learn how to play. >.>

Squire makes a bass pack that comes with a bass, amp, strings, tuner and some other stuff prolly. I got their strat pack when I started playing guitar. It was a nice guitar, good amp, got me started just fine and it didn't really cost that much (under $200 I'm pretty sure) so I'd look into something like that.

[Raditzu]

I've actually been looking at drum kits lately.

>.>

[Kami]

I've actually been looking at drum kits lately.

>.>

Slut!

Wait till Rock Band comes out and then you won't care XD

[Jewtastic]

Kami wins. If you all just wait a few months this thread will be gone and you all will simply love playing music on your system you will forget all about your real guitar.

[Pigero]

I'm getting a bass guitar soon. Payday's been delayed a bit, but I'll have a huge lump of money in my hands when I do finally get paid. Any recommendations as to what kind of guitar to get?

I'm not getting anything that's not bass.

EDIT: I also need to learn how to play. >.>

Jacksons are prolly the best bases, but they might sound a bit muddy if you get a low-quality one.

[Raditzu]

Slut!

Wait till Rock Band comes out and then you won't care XD

That's why I've only been looking.

[Kami]

That's why I've only been looking.

XD

[The Not Cool Not Tapion]

I'm 18 Notes Per Second. 21 on a Good Day.
Without making a piano sound like shit, you can prolly get...what....20 max?
And I'm basically a n00blet at guitar compared to most pros. My guitar teacher is 30 NPS. Zakk Wylde, Slash, and many neoclassical guitarists, such as Yngwei, are in their 40's. The world record is 60.
60 Notes Per Second > 20 Notes Per Second, last time I checked.

The more notes you play does not mean the better. Sure you have speed and accuracy, but I don't really like it when people just play random shit on guitar. It never sounds really that good. It is just a bunch of notes thrown into the air basically, while piano makes it sound beautiful and the fact that you can do bass notes and higher notes on piano while guitar you can only do so much at once makes the piano a little bit better.

We are talking about song generalization. At soloing, the guitar is probably better, sure, but overall, any song played on the guitar can be played on piano and sound amazing. It doesn't work the same the other way.

Beethoven and Mozart don't sound that good on guitar while Tool sounds amazing on piano.

On a song generalization, piano wins. And all of the people saying "you've never touched a guitar, you don't know!" well, have you touched a piano? Have you actually PLAYED piano. Hitting random notes or knowing one song does not mean you are a pianist. You don't understand the piano, hence why you as well, don't understand the instrument.

I've played and am learning both. I have a friend teaching me piano when he can. This friend also scored a 34 on his ACT while in 8th grade. He is a true genius amongst people. He understand the piano and he understands music.

[Raditzu]

The ability to simulntaneously play a melody and counter-melody, or to accompany your melody puts the piano above guitar in my book.