Doug,
A piano keyboard is a straight line.
A string is a straight line.
A piano is a single straight line.
A guitar is six straight lines.
A piano has two "Simple Automatic Functions":
C Major Scale & Gb Pentatonic Scale.
A guitar also has two "SAF":
The inversions of an Augmented Triad & the inversions of a Diminished Seventh chord.
The six strings of the guitar are comparable to six piano keyboards each a fourth higher than the last except for second keyboard which is only offset by a third. And you can only play one note at a time on each keyboard.
There is one fingering for the C scale (or any other) on piano.
On guitar I can think of 6 fingerings for C major scale immediately not to mention Harmonic minor, Melodic minor, Diminished and Whole Tone scales plus the modes.
In spite of all that it's incredibly easy and fun to learn to play.
Regards,
Monk
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