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sir pball

(4,726 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 02:19 AM Jun 2016

I have a very talented guitarist friend...

...who dismissed the keyboard as "just pressing buttons - you literally push a finger and make a note. There's no subtlety or art to it...you literally grind out the music the way it was written."

Pfft. This guy's technically just "pushing buttons", eh?

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I have a very talented guitarist friend... (Original Post) sir pball Jun 2016 OP
Kind of like just plucking strings. ManiacJoe Jun 2016 #1
Well, in his words"you can modify the sound on a guitar!" sir pball Jun 2016 #2
Next time he says that,... LudwigPastorius Jan 2017 #3

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
1. Kind of like just plucking strings.
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:51 AM
Jun 2016


While I don't care the for the piece due to the lack of an easily discernible melody, one cannot question the skills of that pianist.

sir pball

(4,726 posts)
2. Well, in his words"you can modify the sound on a guitar!"
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 01:16 AM
Jun 2016

And he's quite right, you can bend and hammer and do all sorts of interesting things with an axe, but I've always felt it's harder to do amazing things with the constraints of a keyboard.

Liszt actually has some fantastic melodies, but they're so freaking intricate you have to sit down with a pencil and work them out.

Eta - the Transcendental Etudes and in particular the Feux Follets are possibly the most technically challenging works ever written, so, yeah.

LudwigPastorius

(8,943 posts)
3. Next time he says that,...
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 12:55 PM
Jan 2017

ask him to play a piece of music that spans over seven octaves and has ten note polyphony.

When he can't, ask him if he plays such a limited instrument because it's easier.

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