Typing on a keyboard vs playing on a guitar?

Harmony & Theory
#1

Why is it so easy to type exactly what I want on the keyboard, I don’t explicitly know where each key is, but after a few weeks using it my fingers/finger (I’m a singer finger pecker) know exactly where to go, It’s sub conscious.

Is it because I knew the theory before learning the layout?

The guitar is essentially the same, various information to create a sentence, why is it so much harder to talk on the guitar vs a keyboard?

Would learning the theory of music before an instrument make is as easy as typing?

#2

There is only one of each key on a PC keyboard.

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#3

So if we had just one of each note, say a 7 note perscale fretboad, would we learn as fast?

Is keeping yourself to 7 note or otherwise limited scale going to produce results like our affnity for a keyboard?

#4

I think the reason why so many of us guitarists play mostly random stuff is because of the excess of options to play the same note in the same octave.

In contrast, I have never seen a keyboard of brass player being unaware of what they’re playing. I’m sure there should be a trumpet player out there playing a lot of symmetric stuff but I guess they naturally tend to play with more focus on harmonic content.

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#5

What you guy think about baby Babbling?

#6

Your tounge is the pick and your left hand the mouth. Or vice versa.

#7

That would perhaps highlight a massive out of order classic way of teaching?

You have to teach on one string. Up down.

Learn the up down on a single string. Thats it. That is everything you need.
The jumps on a single string is relitive to the keyboard.

#8

If you spend time jumping around on a single string, you will get a feel for musical jumps and musical communication

#9

What you’re describing - a single linear string with one of each note all along it - is effectively… a piano keyboard.

And it turns out that it’s much easier to play the piano at a decent level than it is to play a guitar.

One of the big differences between the guitar and a keyboard (both typing and musical) is that on the keyboard there is a clear sign of what each key is, in addition to there being only one of each. It allows the brain to learn what’s where to the point of being able to do it automatically without having to think. It’s much harder to do that on guitar.

#10

Secretarial typing is not looking at the keyboard and having each key assigned to one specific finger, plus rules like no more than one key per hand (for SHIFT). So it’s not so easy to type well. And then, it becomes a race, where there are lots of typing speed tests.

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