What's the difference between piano and guitar sheet music?

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but how does guitar sheet music compare to piano sheet music. Which of the following is true:





1) The guitar music is the same as the treble cleff staff of the piano grand staff.


2) As 1, but the bass staff is merged into the treble staff


3) It all needs conversion according to fixed rules.


4) It's completely different


5) something else





ThanksWhat's the difference between piano and guitar sheet music?
Guitar music on the visual pitch system is written on the treble clef, but the instrument is actually an octave lower than it is written. There is no bass clef or ';merger'; of the bass clef.





These days, guitar music is normally written into tablature format for ease of reading by people who can't read music.





Of those statements, the 1st is true.What's the difference between piano and guitar sheet music?
pianos commonly both accompany a song, and also play the peice. So a piano usually uses a set sheet music, where a guitar uses tablatures, or just writes the chord above the notes. Guitars are typically used in accompaniment, and it is up to the musician to play the chord, whether as an etude, or a whole chord, as long as the specific notes of the chords are strummed. Guitars use tablatures alot, usually for accompaniment. but there is a set of sheet music used for stringed instruments, like guitars, lutes, violins. For the guitar, there are six lines, verses the piano that only has four lines. The lines for Piano are set as E-G-B-D-F for treble clef always, and the base is G-B-D-F-A. And in piano, the the white spaces used. In guitar music, they have 6 lines, and they dont use the white spaces. The lines are set up in a fasion based on the guitar tuning. Unlike a piano score, there are numbers telling you where to place your finger on the tab board.
Okay. Music is universal so you can play it with any instrument.


Guitar music can be viewed in many different ways


Like Piano both treble and grand staff (note the guitar is restricted to some notes that the piano can cover)


Only treble cleff but extending to E


Tab (six lines with the # of the spaces)


Chord Diagram


That's it.....


Good luck!
it depends. there are different ways to read guitar music.


i've taken piano for 7 years, and i took up guitar last year.


some guitar music does have the notes on the grand staff, much like piano music would.


in this way, some piano music can be played on guitar quite easily.


but the easiest and most popular way, by tablature, where the notes aren't written, but it tells you which frets to pick/strum and on which string.


there's also just the chords that you sometimes find over parts of piano sheet music, and that chord is shown in tablature form.
The problem with tablature is that it does not give each note any time value so it is pretty useless.


Learn to read music properley. If it has been correctly arranged for guitar then the correct position will be given and even the fingerings may be notated.





Guitar only uses one staff. The treble notes (higher notes usually played with first, second and third fingers) will have the stems pointing up. This is equivalent to the right hand of the piano playing the treble clef. The bass notes (lower notes usually played with the thumb) will have stems pointing down. This is equivalent to the left hand of the piano playing the bass clef.
Usually guitarists these days read tabs...it seems the ability to read music properly is a dying art...*sigh*
guitar notation is written an octave above the pitch that the guitar actually plays.





It's written on 1 staff I believe, It's been a long time since I've used musical notation, I usually just learn by ear.





A lot of guitar sheet music will be written in tablature, which is a lot easier to understand for the guitar because it's logical and functional, rather than musical notation that will cause confusion because most notes on the guitar can be played in more than one place.





tablature also provides a means whereby you can represent things like bends, vibrato, upstrokes, downstrokes etc, which musical notation does not.





the best way is to be able to play nearly anything by ear (the only thing I can't play by ear on the guitar/bass guitar is the really fast solos because my brain cant process where the notes are fast enough), that way you don't need to buy expensive sheet music. using headphones is a good way to do this because you can hear things in music that may get buried when you listen through speakers.