Guitar vs piano for beat making?

[GrindtooFilthy]

if you say guitar over keys you're not a serious music producer. any daw uses the piano format good luck trying to edit midi and replaying shyt on the guitar. that ish will make agitate you

I'm classically trained on piano and self taught on guitar. If I had to choose I choose keys and midi. A great vst can emulate guitars.

shh don't let them know

 

[director_of_bands]

sheeit I thought if you can play the keys technology will give ypu any sound you want but of course I aint no producer

 

[Lotsford]

I got a full 88 Key Digital Piano for making music.

The piano is the best instrument to know for making beats or any other electronic composition because the piano has the full range of musical notes, scales, chords and expression, unlike a guitar because on a piano...you play 10 notes at a time vs 6 on a guitar.

Second....the midi keyboard is based off piano....

If you don't know shyt about chords or melodies...the theory behind the music...then it's gonna be pretty fukking hard to compose anything...and knowing piano...like starter level kid piano...will help you tremendously...

So get a piano...

Most songs are made on the piano...

Most songs are modeled off the piano...

I start everything with a damn piano...and then convert it to synths and etc...cause if it sounds good on the piano...then I just gotta pick my instrument in Serum...

Guitar is cool to know and learn...but electronic music is piano based...

If you was making folk, country or rock songs, it would be different.

I'm classically trained on piano and self taught on guitar. If I had to choose I choose keys and midi. A great vst can emulate guitars.

If I was to produce with a guitar I would get a device like this




It's the same thing as a midi keyboard but in the shape of a guitar. Does this seem like it could be a useful in hip hop? Right now I'm only using drum pads to input notes but would rather use my native instrument (guitar device like above) or learn piano and use a keyboard.

 

[kingdizzy01]

get midi controller, use guitar in addition. peep ohene savant

 

[Renegade47]

piano so you can incorporate synths easier into your workflow.

 

[Vandelay]

You can play with the envelope and have the piano (midi controller) sounding like a guitar or other string instrument.

 

[Lotsford]

piano so you can incorporate synths easier into your workflow.

You can play with the envelope and have the piano (midi controller) sounding like a guitar or other string instrument.

What about something like this? Same thing as a regular keyboard but in guitar form.

 

[Tom Foolery]

What about something like this? Same thing as a regular keyboard but in guitar form.

If you are think of going this route, I would advise you to learn piano with a keyboard controller.

Check the dates on the videos. Old tech that never blew up

You'll need and amp or amp vst if you want a real guitar.

 

[Standing on business]

Piano
there's so many vst that can give you any guitar sound you want with a midi controller

 

[Renegade47]

What about something like this? Same thing as a regular keyboard but in guitar form.

doesnt matter long as it gets the job done honestly.

 

[Vandelay]

What about something like this? Same thing as a regular keyboard but in guitar form.

You get more notes with a piano. Invest in a solid 88 key joint.

If you want a guitar like controller...just get a real guitar. The sound will be so much better.

 

[beenz]

I'd say keyboard cuz u can use it to mimic so many other instruments.

 

[AlainLocke]

It's the same thing as a midi keyboard but in the shape of a guitar. Does this seem like it could be a useful in hip hop? Right now I'm only using drum pads to input notes but would rather use my native instrument (guitar device like above) or learn piano and use a keyboard.

I was talking about making electronic music in general. And how important it is to know music theory that correlates to popular forms of music...which is easier learned on the piano...since it has the full range of musical expression.

I mean...you can play the entire song Earned It on piano...that's why I fukks with the piano and preferred it over the guitar. I wanted to be able to play a song, a melody and then put in the computer...and have that shyt sound nice.

If you noticed...he was still using the guitar like the intended instrument and still used like guitar sounds...

If you watch any Hip Hop producer...depending on the style...but say a Hip Hop producer that composes idk...Trap beats...

They use the mouse and their computer keyboard half the time...like they ain't banging away on a drum pad or whatever because trap music is very time and rhythm specific and they want it exactly right...


But they use musical theory principles...like Dorian scales or 7th chords...

That shyt is easier to learn on a piano and it is easier to utilize when working on your computer..

Not too many Hip Hop producers fukk with actual instruments when making beats...

You don't need to...

I copped a Maschine, thought it would be easier to drum and shyt and that shyt wasn't...

What actually improved my drumming is playing the piano and knowing what the fukk a 1/16th and a 1/4th is...

You already trained in an instrument...

Get you a midi keyboard...and if you find a dope guitar midi you can use that too...

But majority of producers breh...they use a keyboard and a mouse and they study a little piano...and watch YouTube...

 

[Tom Foolery]

Do both. They are both in reasonable range to purchase

I like piano and I think it's the easiest, but nothing beats a good guitar lick.

Just make quality purchases and say No limitations.

 

[mortuus est]

all you need is FL studio 11 and youtube my g