Easiest instrument to learn to play?
First of all, I MEAN SOMETHING PRACTICAL. Not a Kazoo or a stick and an empty paint can, but something that you can actually play without looking stupid. Well not stupid, but well.. you're not going to see someone rock out on a Kazoo and become a famous musician or at least be considered "good." Practical instruments would be things that people actually use. Bass guitar, trumpet, sax, guitar, electric guitar, piano, synth keyboard, etc. Those are some examples. Anyway, what's the easiest to learn to play? Whenever I try to touch a music keyboard I end up just playing random keys. I've never tried a guitar or anything else though. I'm thinking that I should learn whatever is easiest first then move on to harder instruments. I have absolutely no musical experience by the way.
Which among the following instruments would be the easiest to learn by a complete beginner: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, and percussion?
Saxophone, hands down. Its embouchure (the shape in which the player holds the mouth in order to make a sound) is quite straightforward, and the fingerings make pretty good sense.Addressing the other woodwinds on your list: The flute has a tougher embouchure (albeit extremely similar fingerings in the low and middle registers) than the sax, and takes a surprisingly gigantic amount of air to play: half of the air goes into the room and not the instrument as the air column is split (which is what makes the sound). The clarinet has a fairly straightforward embouchure, but tougher fingerings than sax.Amongst the brass: trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, and tuba all require a fair amount of athleticism to play well. All of the instruments in the brass family require that you apply a very specific amount of pressure in the embouchure, or you’ll get the wrong note (i.e., you’ll get one of the other notes in the harmonic series, but not the note you want). French horn is known for being extremely demanding among all orchestral/band instruments; it’s really the only orchestral instrument where you can hear seasoned professional players occasionally play incorrect notes due to the sheer difficulty/sensitivity of the embouchure.“Percussion” is too vague a term to properly address. Drum set vs. glockenspiel vs. tympani is just too broad a category to discuss, particularly since some percussion instruments incorporate pitch and others don’t (focusing only on rhythm and employing fixed pitches.)Also, in some situations (such as drum set), the percussion player must learn to facilitate different limbs dong different things (drummers call this “independence”): playing once a measure on the bass drum, 8x per measure on the hi-hat, and on beats 2 and 4 on the snare would be an extremely rudimentary example. This requirement is something quite different from playing a single note at a time (which is what all of the other listed instruments do). It’s not like comparing apples to oranges; it’s more like apples and radiators.Finally, keep in mind that technically, the piano is categorized as a percussion instrument!All that said, I agree with Himanshu: go with the instrument that holds your interest and sparks your imagination.
Which one of the following instruments is the easiest and which one the most difficult to learn and master: flute, guitar, piano?
All three. To learn any instrument to a respectable degree (that is proficient at sight reading and a good grasp of technique to just name two!) you will require a lot of hard work to achieve that. Sure piano is easier in the sense that you can just press a key and the sound is there with minimal effort. But then you realise you have to learn to read music in blocks rather than a single melodic line. When sight reading you're generally, at a minimum, reading one bar ahead of what you're playing and when that's filled with chords and passing notes involving all your fingers the challenges stack up. You have to learn finger independence to gain control of the tone on every note you play. I could go on, but I won't. You then get to the flute. It looks so much easier, you just play one note at a time?! But then you literally have to make the sound. You can't just press something for it to be made. You have to work on how to make the sound yourself. Then breath control. And tonguing. And harmonics, something a pianist would rarely have to touch on! A pianist can do a run up and down with ease and effectively go on for hours. A flautist has to breathe and therefore has to learn ways around these issues in orchestra and solo pieces. I know little about guitar but should you want to take it beyond strumming chords then discipline is a must!
In your opinion, whats the easiest instrument to learn/play?
the drums all you do is keep the beat there are no keys to learn
What is the easiest/best wind/brass instrument to start out with?
Out of all the wind and brass instruments, the flute is undoubtedly the easiest to learn and the least expensive to buy. All brass and wind instruments are expensive, but a decent flute costs less than most any other brass or wind instrument. There are several advantages to the flute as compared to other winds and brass. First of all it is a C instrument, which means that a flutist can play with a pianist or a guitarist without having to worry about transposition. In the case of saxophones, trumpets, etc. the instrument is tuned to Bb, an orchestral conceit which means that any notated "c" on a piece of music for an instrument in Bb is actually a Bb and not a C. Therefore if a saxophonist, a trumpeter, or any other Bb instrument player wants to play with another instrument, they either have to play by ear, or someone has to transpose the music into a different key. The flute, being a C instrument, bypasses all this nonsense. In my opinion, the flute is probably the most expressive and most dynamic of all the wind instruments. It's hard to do anything with a trumpet except blare, and learning to play a sax or clarinet involves hours and hours of producing noises that sound like a duck being strangled before you can get a decent note out of them. The flute sounds good pretty quickly. If you don't get the embochure right when you're learning to play flute, you just hear no sound at all, but when you do get it right, your first note is often a good one. This makes learning a lot easier on your ears and everyone else's; a missed note on a flute is just a "whoosh" whereas on a trumpet it sounds like a fart. It's also possible to play a flute quietly, where with a sax or a trumpet it's much more difficult. Finally, there are a lot of good flute players out there to inspire you, everybody from rockers like Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to jazz players like Roland Kirk and classical players like Jean Pierre Rampal or James Galway. This is all my opinion of course; my personal favorite instrument is always the guitar but of all the wind instruments the flute would have to be my favorite.
Witch is easier to play the clarinet or flute??????????
it depends on the person. usually clarinet is easier to start off with, and then gets harder. flute is harder to start out with. it takes people a while to get a sound out. but the it gets much easier. it depends on how determined and persistent you can be with the flute, which will end up being easier in the long run.
Which is the best instrument to learn out of the following(details)?
Well you have listed all different categories (like a nerd or totally confused person),Wind instruments, strings, Key-based ,percussion. All of these falls and feels different. You need to analyse what are your priorities and interests. for the record if you are asking which one's are easier - NONE. try your hands on Guitar maybe - that will open you towards : Sitar / bass or any other string instrument (violin is-tricky though, i my self coudnt figured out how to play that) as Mudit has mentioned Mouth organ can be an easy pick but that too requires practice a lot. Anyway if you research you will get to know there are reasons why people play any certain category of instruments. 1: they were introduced to it in very beginning (childhood) 2: they just liked that and decided what they want to play 3: they figured they are doing good and should try something else 4: they are so good at one that they picked another one. SO there is no telling what you should pick but yea try one stringed instrument (guitar maybe) then percussion and maybe flute (flute is not east at all it takes ages to master it ) there are musicians who play like all of them. Recent Grammy winner "BECK" plays 15 instruments. its simply the matter of interest, like we cant answer if you like Blonds or brunette // or if you like coffee or tea // or what should you like - that's a funny thing to ask :) again i would like to emphasis that none of them is impossible and none is easy to master. i play guitar and have started playing bass lately and will pick mouth organ later :)
Which instrument is harder, violin or alto saxophone?
The violin is much harder.