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Depending on what style of playing you want to do and how good you intend to get, it's possible to sound OK relatively quickly, but it is pretty difficult to sound genuinely brilliant on it. I know they aren't comparable really but if you play what would be difficult guitar riffs or solos on a piano they sound very basic indeed. But your musical feel for stuff you will have learnt on guitar will come in very useful
Are you learning on a digital piano, keyboard, or real piano? Not a snobbery based question, just interesting to know
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The teacher I went to (who seemed very good, but pricey) teaches on a Grand Piano (!) in a big piano studio extension on the side of his house.
My son (11) has a decent Yamaha weighted hammer action digital piano in his room that we bought him a year or so ago (he's had lessons for quite a while and loves it) so today I did my practice on that (among the man-child-mess lol)
I'd love to have my own weighted keyboard but it'd need to be in our bedroom, and there's not really the room, plus with me no longer earning it's a bit skintsville. If using the lad's proves problematic I may just get a shitty keyboard as 'better than nowt' but for now it's lesson on Grand and hopefully practice on the lad's weighted keyboard.
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Thankfully, piano is very rewarding for improvising with little playing talent. I find that being freed from synth/amp tweaking means that I find it easier to play and find the melodies. Also, somehow, a weighted keyboard makes it feel like you're working to get the notes.
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It is a good skill to have but I don't work on it often enough to be considered good.
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