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I've gotten good at both on piano, but for years I was just good at sight comping and my reading is only very slowly catching up with a lot of work. But ask me to sight read on guitar and I'll give you a blank look. Sightreading or sight comping? I mean, I can sight comp basic chord charts on guitar and I can sightread almost anything on trumpet. >Ive played a bit of bass too, and IвЂ™m comfortable gigging and sight reading at a pretty decent level on all three. That book in general will give you a lot of good comping concepts for various styles. Probably some of the hardest comping you can do. It's a lot of very sparsely voiced stuff with extremely complex 16th note subdivision. You'll find lots of comping patterns very specifically for that. Honestly, this book is almost certainly beyond your technical level, but the answers are all there. Is it less about the function of a chord and more about the color in funk? Whenever IвЂ™m playing something like Superstition I have no problem using chords for their texture (maybe itвЂ™s easier on a clav?) but ItвЂ™s just not coming together for me. > IвЂ™m really into funk, what are some of the comping tricks from a harmonic standpoint? IвЂ™ve been studying a lot of George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Richard Tee etc. Either that or they don't care.ДЄlso, so much of your previous knowledge will transfer to piano, but honestly, a ton of piano stuff will end up transferring BACK to make you better at everything else you do by recontextualizing it. something they've heard 100 times from a recording and they still might not be able to tell if you completely fuck up the chords. It's usually lay people.ДЇor fuck sake, you can be playing their favorite song. Our audiences aren't people who are trained to be experts in our specific areas. You, as a trained musician probably can't pick up a ton of subtleties about different piano brands. The ultra fine details and subtleties are over-empahsized and only noticeable to musicians trained VERY specifically in your area. Probably not, but you could probably tell a lot by just listening to another guitarist. Does that fucking matter? Can I tell what gauge of guitar strings, or what pick thickness, or what pedal setup you're using on guitar by listening. Due to expectations you often don't need to be the BEST at anything because most audiences can't even tell.Д¬an you tell if someone is playing a Bb, C, Eb, or piccolo trumpet? I can. Well that's not how that work (the rest of the saying is something like 'often better than a master of one'). Well, good luck finding someone else with all of those abilities because everyone ends up feeling like being a jack of all trades is a master of none. You need someone to sing a one-to-a-part a capella piece, then lead some songs while walking on guitar. I often just get gigs where I'm playing multiple instrument and have become often the only person who could actually do a certain gig. I've picked up other instruments to varying degrees over the years and get gigs on them. I literally sometimes play both at the same time. Piano is my main money make, but I still get gigs on trumpet. One of the biggest things I've learned is that my versatility is what gets me employment. Well, no, you won't be throwing away anything.

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>Would I be shooting myself in the foot to вЂњthrow awayвЂќ everything IвЂ™ve learned on other instruments to go full time with piano? wut?'ДЄnyway, that rant aside, I was a trumpet player and I actively gigged and such (in more classical settings) and then started up piano very late.

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I compare it to getting a Comp Sci degree and spending 4 years learning how to program for punch cards and only then going out into the world of modern computers and smart phone apps and thinking, 'Wait. It's also when I started learning some of the real world skills that made me realize just how relatively shallow and empty traditional academia was. I didn't really take up piano seriously until 26 and sort of by accident due to circumstances.

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You can hear me bitch about how out of touch traditional academic music programs are with the reality of being a pro musicians frequently around here. So I'm a guy who had a very classical background starting with trumpet in school and went to a NOT Berklee like traditional music school.