Guitar or drums

[dP]

guitar. drums is just banging on stuff

 

[jd-inflames]

It's a lot more than that dP. I used to think the same thing till I tried to really learn how to play them =\ It's harder than it looks. I still think that a drum set is easier to get good at than a guitar...just because it takes a lot to be awesome...but still.

 

[Ebay.God]

drums are easyer than guitar, although you can still sound good at guitar even has a begginer, but you cant sound REALLY good, lol.

 

[Thistle]

you can sound good at drums to

 

[DarkRider]

Originally posted by ik-deystroyer
what do you think takes more time to get better at?

it takes alot more time to get better at drums.... because you have to focus on more than just 2 things. Where with guitar you focus on 2 things: fret and strumming the strings.

 

[Thistle]

hitting the right string, proper patterns

 

[l33t 0n3]

Played both... I got guitar down for the most part in under a year. It was hard but quick. After 3 years, I'm still a crappy drummer.

Drums are by-far the hardest. Its not just hitting stuff once you get past the newbie shit. Each specific drum/cymbal has to be hit the right way, based on the tension and the part to hit aswell. Its a real biotch to get a good sound on fills that require really hast hits. Also, theres way harder rythms than any other instrument/etc. Then again, the common idiot finds it easiest. I've played trumpet, piano, drumset, guitar, and drums are by-far the hardest. If you ask a real musician, drums always are the hardest of ANY instrument. Guitar is hard, aswell, but not as hard.


Dp- Hey, fock you.

 

[Ebay.God]

Re: Re: guitar or drums

Originally posted by Pixelated Dreams
it takes alot more time to get better at drums.... because you have to focus on more than just 2 things. Where with guitar you focus on 2 things: fret and strumming the strings.

on drums all you pay attention to is direction and beat :S Anyways, it is alot harder to play guitar GOOD.

 

[SweatyOgre]

Guitar. You need a sense of rhytm for both, but with guitar you need to learn your way around the neck and memorize chords and build up speed, with drums your just hitting stuff, which is a skill you've already acquired.

Of course Bass gets totally over looked in this thread. Real men(me) play bass.

 

[Arkillo]

Originally posted by Rat Bastard
um you're supposed to use the foot peddles; if you dont you're not a real drummer.

I know you're not supposed to flame outside the asylum, but you're an idiot.

I havn't played set in a long while, and I've been doing Corps stuff more, and concert snare/timps and bellsets, and I'm still known as "one of the best drummers at my school"

Tons of people that I meet through marching bands and corps and such have NEVER attempted drumset, and are INSANE on marching snare or tenors or bass.

So in conclusion, I own you at any type of drumming.

 

[2.Waste.Hate]

I was talking about a set moron. Percussion and Drumming is different. Mallets, timpini, bass drum, hell even wind chimes gongs and toys or anything you find in a trap box are considered Percussion in general.


You'll never own me at drumming because not only can i play a full 6 or 7 piece set but i can also play any percussion instrument you name. I played the Quads for my schools marching band.

 

[Arkillo]

Oh no, 6 or 7 piece...congrats, 6-7 piece if nothing, if you want to be a real set player. Bass drum isn't "Percussion in general" its a drum. Same with Timpani, however mallets, wind chimes and the other stuff is.

Oh, and I'de love to see you play mallets better than me, or quads/snare marching wise...Cause trust me, it would be very hard to top this

 

[OriginalPrankster]

Can't everone just get along? lol. I think guitar and drums are pretty equal (never learned drums but have about 20 friends who did) I play guitar and It's tough to get used to using your fingers with bends, slides, etc. but drumming is tough cuz you have to cordinate (did I spell that right?) both hands and feet (I say feet cuz one of those friends plays double bass) so they are about the same difficulty

 

[Master.America]

It depends on how much you want to learn. Different instruments have different learning curves, and not all learning curves are smooth. For instance, a saxophone is easy to play as a beginner, but becomes much more difficult over time when the player must learn to control tone quality and pitch and advanced skills such as growling and vibrato. Learning a trumpet, on the other hand, is difficult for beginners but increasingly easier as time progresses.

Drumming for beginners is all about maintaining patterns and keeping time. Intermediate players need to learn to play fills and such while playing on more advanced drumsets. Advanced players, from what I can tell, do less maintaining patterns and more keeping with the time while backing the lead guitarist with rhythm that evolves with the song. Everyone knows guitar isn't difficult to learn unless you consider chord memorization difficult. Once the chords are down, a guitarist must learn other skills such as finger picking and all those freaky little things you do that make the guitar do cool stuff. Once those are all down, the guitarist learns how to play improv and solos and whatnot.

I'd assume guitar would be more difficult, personally, but I have always been a person who can keep a good beat. If I was put behind both instruments, I'd probably be better on the drums than on the guitar.

 

[jd-inflames]

Heh...I bet I can impress you on mallets and I only have a year of those up my sleeve

And you meant set, but you said drummer...think about what you post before you post it to avoid such problems.

 

[l33t 0n3]

They're different, not one harder than another.

- Guitar is harder to learn, but way faster if you put time into it

- There is no way you can learn drums quickly, but you can jack-off for most of the time

- Guitars have notes and drums have the equivalent: other drums

- After you learn guitar, theres not much you can do other then perfect it.

- Drums can go on endlessly since there are so many possible setups.

It depends on your personality, really. One is not better than another. Whoa, I changed my opinion rather quickly. Guitar isn't just plucking strings, and drums isn't whacking sticks. Unless you are an ignorant prick, both are hard as hell to perfect. They are way too different to compare ^^;;

 

[DigitalElite]

Originally posted by jd-inflames
Heh...I bet I can impress you on mallets and I only have a year of those up my sleeve

And you meant set, but you said drummer...think about what you post before you post it to avoid such problems.

I was in percussion for four years( worst years of my life thanxs to band instructor) and I actually enjoyed the mallets.

 

[jd-inflames]

I prefered the drums really...but was stuck on an instrument called a KAT (souped up synth really...only you play it with marimba mallets for soft tone, xylo for hard, etc)

 

[Arkillo]

Lately, I've been into Marimba 4mallet...it's pretty fun and there are some nice ass songs you can play if you're good enough.

 

[jd-inflames]

I'm what you would call a definate novice with 4 mallet...I have the technique, I'm just not very fast with it.