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Blues_Man
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Blues_Man
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09/06/2007 12:53 am
I have gotten into an argument with one of my friends...He INSISTS (Polite word) That Classical guitar is harder than electric. Now, I think they are the same difficulty level but just different styles. I play both styles, classical and electric ,and i don't see much difference in the difficulty between Tarrega, Sor, Bach, etc. and Satch, Vai, Malmsteen, becker, Paul Gilbert etc. All I see is a difference in technique. My analogy for it (and it may be somewhat of an oversimplification but..) is that the Classical style guitar is played more like a piano, 2 or more notes at the same time. And the Electric is played more like a violin would, single note runs and arps etc. And you wouldn't necessarily say the piano is harder than the violin would you?...Anyway, what are you alls' opinions?
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