Guitar with Piano and the use of the right notes

[therealHESKO]

I am a bit of a rookie in music teory. But I want to comp my guitar with piano. But I dont want to use the same chords on piano and on guitar. I feel they ruin eachother.
What notes do I use and how do I know? is the quintcircle(dont know if it is spelled like that) ?

In advanced I appologize if this is the wrong place to post this question

HESKO

 

[grimtraveller]

Experiment.
If the chords are being played on the guitar, use the piano to part complement, part shadow and part counter-melody what you hear in the chord progression.
I don't know if you find this, but when I put together a run of chords on guitar, little melodies and counter-melodies nearly always "suggest" themselves to me. And they make great little parts if I convert them to piano or electric piano.
Also, look up "related minors" - they can add some interesting flavours to your main chord. So for example, if you're playing a G on guitar, you might find notes in or around B minor on the piano to complement what you're doing. It might change the tone of your song too much, which is why you need to experiment.

 

[rob aylestone]

Chords have to have a link, or they ruin it far worse than playing the same ones. Often guitar chords - played on all 6 strings will feature one note letter name multiple times, and if that also happens on the piano - it's boring. What you can do is instead of playing all the notes, play some on guitar and others on piano. Also consider different chords. C major with three notes can be a bit boring, but C minor, C6 (which is what grimtraveller said above) but would be Am, or the two 7ths - the one with a Bb and the one with a B.
On the piano, the left hand often does the bass note - often the root (the C) but Elton John, for example, liked to use an E - which means it's still C Major, but sounds really different.

You have to learn a bit of music theory really, because some notes just don't work, while others do - but then you need to be able to convert this into any key. Sometimes, missing out notes from a chord works. If you play C and G, but no others - what chord is that? sort of a C or a G chord. The missing notes confuse it. Play the missing ones on the other instrument and it suddenly becomes obvious.