• Him: Playing keys is easy if you're a guitarist, it's laid out for you and your fingers have already got the speed and flexibility. The piano is the fundamentals, if you know music you can play the piano.
  • Me: It's not quite that simple, I'm used to the relationships between notes being based on the physical properties of vibrating strings, rather than even intervals that are more dependent on music theory. Even just getting used to which combination of black and white keys I need takes me a while to get the hang of...
  • Him: Nah, that's easy, isn't it, you just use the white keys for the held notes and the black keys for the accents.
  • Me: o_O