hi - i'll try to be short. i really want to learn piano bc i've always wanted to, feel limited by the guitar esp when it comes to learning music production, digital music, and especially music theory. the tldr is thati had a couple months of guitar lessons when i was about 13, then years of self-teaching through youtube and books and such until life pulled me away and i got frustrated because i didn't have theory and couldn't read notes so while i got pretty good at playing the stuff i practiced from tabs, liek my technique is pretty solid though i could never improvise, write my own music, or sing along (more of a confidence thing and never practiced it) and gave up around 17 or so. i still have my epiphone les paul and vox valvetronix i picked up a while ago, and now i'm wanting to get back into music but my tastes have developed a lot since then and am much more interested in piano as a main instrument so i can make my own tracks and do what i wanted to when i was so heavy into guitar but hit that wall. also i just find piano absolutely beautiful as a solo instrument in a way guitar doesn't for me - it sounds complete on its own to me while a guitar feels like it needs backing. so i'm pretty set on piano long term butttt the issue is i don't have a keyboard worth shit right now and wont be able to for a few months, probably not until this fall. i also can't afford lessons at the moment. i have a little 61 key junker i got at a thrift store that works but is barely better than nothing, while like i said i still have my guitar. ultimately, i do still love guitar a lot and want to be proficient in both. so my immediate goal is to learn theory and notation and (i wish) learn the rudiments of piano playing. i mean, i get that i ought to just focus on guitar for like 6 months to learn notation and theory without having to learn technique and whatnot and then when i can get a good keyboard take some lessons and practice hard or whatever but like am i right about that? how do i get where i want to go? should i try to learn some basics with the crappy keyboard i have now to sort of get me past the baby steps just so i don't feel like i'm delaying what i really want to be doing right now? just looking for advice. also - if the answer is guitar, what's a good book or lesson series online that's made for someone like me? also - the side note is that i'm less motivated by guitar bc i would rather be playing an acoustic than an electric but that's beside the point i guess.
Submitted June 07, 2022 at 05:12PM by CassieH907 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/v76byn/is_learning_piano_or_relearning_guitar_better_for/?utm_source=ifttt