Scarlett Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 My ds's father bought him a nice electric guitar for his 6th grade graduation party last summer. With the move ds has had very little time to fool with it. I just now found him a piano teacher and that starts back up this week. My question is....is it reasonable to take piano and guitar lessons at the same time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elinor Everywhere Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Sure, if the time and money allow it. My dd takes violin and flute lessons, but we use the same teacher and they switch back and forth. However, she recently started tuba, and will probably need private lessons to learn at the speed she feels is necessary to be most useful to her band. I'm hoping in the beginning to pay an advanced student so I don't have to shell out another $100-125 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I have only experience with classical guitar and piano. Both instruments can definately be learn at the same time. Guitar chords would help with piano chords and arppregios. There are music scores that have both the piano score and the guitar accompaniment on it. So your son can alternate between playing a music piece on the piano and on his guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 I have only experience with classical guitar and piano. Both instruments can definately be learn at the same time. Guitar chords would help with piano chords and arppregios. There are music scores that have both the piano score and the guitar accompaniment on it. So your son can alternate between playing a music piece on the piano and on his guitar. He has been in some sort of piano since he was 5. The last year was pretty iffy between his teacher having a baby and us moving into a fixer and then dh getting sick. He wants to learn the guitar but when he sat down with it with a PS3 game his dad bought him (suppose to help him learn to play) he got totally frustrated. So I am going to check with this new teacher and see if she knows a good guitar teacher. She is so reasonable (40 a month!) that I can afford the guitar...on second thought maybe I shouldn't ask her for recommendations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Has he taken piano before? How good is he about practicing? I'd allow it, but I'd make sure he was at each instruments at least 20+ minutes, 5+ days a week before I'd allow it. I might ramp on the piano for a couple months if you already have that set up and if that's going well and he's enjoying it, add in the guitar. ETA I would LOVE to pay 40 a month for piano lessons. That is a tiny fraction of what we're paying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzymom Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Absolutely! Any more than 2 instruments can be a bit much, but we've taken 2 at once without problems. P.S. Buy earplugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Has he taken piano before? How good is he about practicing? I'd allow it, but I'd make sure he was at each instruments at least 20+ minutes, 5+ days a week before I'd allow it. I might ramp on the piano for a couple months if you already have that set up and if that's going well and he's enjoying it, add in the guitar. ETA I would LOVE to pay 40 a month for piano lessons. That is a tiny fraction of what we're paying! \ That is a good idea to get him back into piano before adding in the guitar. He has taken piano since he was 5....private lessons from age 7 on, almost continuously until last summer when we moved. So excited to get him back into it. He spent a lot of time at his piano today---we just got it back from his dad yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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