What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST,Qute
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 03:25 PM

I am thinking about playing the piano or guitar, which is easier?

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 06:34 PM

the flesh oboe

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 06:59 PM

I play guitar - somewhat - but in my opinion the piano is a great way to start learning any kind of music. Everything is right in front of you, the intervals are easily noted and no finger contortious are required. The downside, of course, is that most pianos are not easily transported in the back of your car...

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: leftydee
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 09:10 PM

I say learn the accordion.... if you play poorly people hate it. If you play it well, people still hate it.

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:58 AM

Northumbrian smallpipes.

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: Terry K
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 10:59 AM

If you've got two brains, piano. Otherwise guitar. Until they invent something easier, in which case please let me know.

Terry

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 11:29 AM

One good thing to notice is what instument do you "hear " and cant stop thinking about??? Something you are " called to "..   Its amazing in the 60's and early 70's I gave a girl friend and then a year later my brother a banjo; each before realizing I really wanted to play the banjo.. As Chip said above its easiest to play the instrument you really like .. To that I would add that different people have natural tendencies.. cattsfiiddle said it was hard for her to play non classical fiddle . She may have gotten used to reading music and has a harder time just going with it ... without the dots. ( I know my wife Erica has that difficulty)
       I am a rythum person . So after drums as a kid Banjo was my first instrument .. It came quickly for me because I heard the rythum of the thing.. Blues guitar was an off-shoot from that and English dance tunes came next in open tuning guitar..All from the inpitus of dance .How people danced to the music was my door way to the rythum of it . I cant play morris tunes without remembering My wife in a Boston Morris team and how high they jumped and where in the rythum of the tune they leaped ..
       So what might seem a hard thing for one may be an easy jumping off place for another. Keeping in touch with what feels natural to you will help you find the easiest path to your music. .What instrument cant you get away from ??? . All the best , guy

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST,neovo
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 10:16 AM

Apologies if this has been said before - it's rather a long thread and I might have missed it. In my opinion the easiest instrument to play is the one you really, really want to play. No point in learning something just because it looks easy and hating every minute of it. On the other hand if you are desparate to learn an obscure system duet concertina you will persevere and get a lot of pleasure from your achievement.

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 07:36 PM

Un-deniably....

DRUMS

Some may attribute it to the "repetition of a mother's heart-beat," others may attribute it to "self expression"....but....

put something/anything (spoon, rattle, snare-drum-stick) in a 12month's-old-hand ..... and they will immediately begin beating out a rhythem to march the troops to war..

BEAT - Measure - meter is the precurscer to ANY instrument....I have heard audible (musician to musican) confirmation...that (so and so may be GREAT ....in such and such.... but for a blank-blank... they don't seem to have rhythem.)

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

However, this very afternoon I witnessed and was (tolerated/tortured) by a body - that had the rhthym...and was tone deaf as a leopard.

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 09 May 08 - 11:33 PM

Observing the new "google force-feed" or "the new mudcat"

Years later I would vote (outside of pots/pans/walls/wickets)

The

>JEW'S HARP

For the simple reason - it has "carry-over-value"

If you can accurately resonate one....you are three quarters of the way to "bending the blues" on a "mouth organ."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Mi> However, you do need sence of pitch and harmony and melody - something that can be lacking in many successful percusionists.

Subject: RE: What's The Easiest Instrument to learn?
From: GUEST,Heidi
Date: 20 Jul 08 - 04:34 PM

the ukulele is extremely fun and easy to learn
i got one a few days ago and people think i've been playing for at least a year
i picked it up in, honestly, about 15 minutes
they're really cheap too, i got mine for 30$

here's a website with a lot of good information
www.ukuleleworld.com