easiest musicial instrument?

[Tynan]

what do you people think the easiest musical instrument to learn and play is?
and it can be for any style of music.

i think that voice is the easiest instrument to learn.

[MegaMadness]

The glockenspiel is the easiest. Even I can play it. lol

[Pizza Slut]

The voice isn't all that easy to sing. With voices it's harder to hear the note you're singing because you sound different to yourself than you do to everyone else. I don't think any instrument is easier to learn than the other, they all require a skill but I suppose if you were very musically talented you'd probably think the triangle was easiest or a bass drum since a lot of the time you have to play the same beat over and over.

[Magicalisland]

I think piano and guitar are certainly easy if not the easiest. They particularly good if you need an instrument to accompany singing

[Gaia]

I'd say any tuned percussion that isn't piano, are very easy to learn, such as xylophone, marimba, timpani drums etc.
Guitar is easy if you make it easy, by picking only simple chord songs, but then again this can be said of most instruments.
Wind, brass and strings are you hardest, with bassoon and french horn the hardest out of those types.

[Xujhan]

Triangle, woodblock, chimes, gong, timpani, etc. You get the picture. Percussion players are all drooling knobs (totally, totally kidding!).

[Tynan]

Originally Posted by Boo Ghost

The voice isn't all that easy to sing. With voices it's harder to hear the note you're singing because you sound different to yourself than you do to everyone else.

you do bring up a good point there.

but with the human voice you can do more then just sing.
there is vocal percussion, or just listen to the band Van Canto they are an a cappella metal band with 2 people mimicking a guitar and 1 guy mimicking the bass guitar and 2 people singing. while there is a guy drumming.

[Kol]

I thought the saxophone and trumpet were easier to learn from personal Exp.

[CherriesBlossom]

I think the drums or flute lol

[tk338]

They're all very easy to play, well except a few , but they'll all also take years of practice to get remotely good at them... Kind of hard to compare too, because a grade 8 piano piece next too the gong is going to sound a lot better in general ... To me anyway...

From personal experience though, easy to get anywhere with are the recorder and the didgeridoo, both of which I played when I was little but gave up lol...

[losing touch.]

the triangle

[Tynan]

i still like the human voice is the easiest to learn.
i mean the human voice can go into any style of music. its the cheapest. and you can do a lot of different sounds. like vocal percussion.

[Briana]

I played aux. percussion in high school. that is deffinately the easiest! like: triangle, gong, woodblocks, tambourine, bells, chimes, etc.

[Strider]

Percussion is pretty easy, so if this is for school, then go for that. Or start with the clarinet. My friends have said it's easy.

Other than that, any instrument you can hit (percussion) or blow through without any fingerings (penny whistle, harmonica) or has easy fingerings like the recorder are pretty easy.

[moyshi239]

Originally Posted by xxEllexx

the triangle

Yesss. But if you have a bad sense of timing/rhythm then it might not go so well.

The clarinet and keyboard are pretty simple to learn, although i`m sure there would be many instruments that you would consider to be easy once you started learning simple songs and practicing.

[Algernon]

Drums are pretty easy. Percussion.

I'm taking piano and I assure you. It's easy at first, but It's getting hard, lol.

[Katelyn]

I would say piano. And I would disagree with those who just say percussion because personally I can play piano and the oboe (I know...) but drums was something that I just could not do.

[*Faith*]

Drums if you have a good sense of rhythm? I found guitar kind of easy aswell..

[Magical Forest.]

A recorder? Well, until you get further than three blind mice, then it's incredibly hard

[Crazy_Achava_lovesmusic]

Originally Posted by ghostlyheartbeat

Wind, brass and strings are you hardest, with bassoon and french horn the hardest out of those types.

I personally found bassoon and french horn quite easy to learn honestly, I can play both very well, especially bassoon... the problem with French Horn is that you have to transpose depending on where you play, and that the pitches like to be hard to find for the Cs, and Fs lol.

I personally found the Clarinet, Bassoon and Flute and trumpet to be the easiest to learn, Guitar is the hardest by far for me at least lol.

[Boobies]

Tin whistle is extremely easy to play, and you can't get an instrument much cheaper to be honest =p

And I wouldn't personally count vocals as an instrument, as in a song music and vocals are counted separately and music is made by instruments. But that's my opinion, don't know if they're technically classed as an instrument?

[Tynan]

Originally Posted by PolkaDotTissue

Tin whistle is extremely easy to play, and you can't get an instrument much cheaper to be honest =p

And I wouldn't personally count vocals as an instrument, as in a song music and vocals are counted separately and music is made by instruments. But that's my opinion, don't know if they're technically classed as an instrument?

well if voice is not an instrument. then what is vocal percussion classified as?
or listen to the band Van Canto. then you might see voice as a instrument.

[crazyheart12]

voice is the easiest instument unless your miley cyrus=0

[Double X]

Drums can be really difficult due to rhythm and whatnot. Vocals are also really hard. Guitar is easy to be mediocre at and hide in the background though.

[Tynan]

i found beatboxing wasn't that hard to pick up. for the basic bass drum, snare, and hi hat, and crash cymbal.

[mr_null]

Any instrument is as easy as you make it, you're limited only by your imagination (well, and skill).

[InSovietRussiaORGASMGotU]

Depends what you mean by "easy". If you mean in terms of getting a sound out of, then any percussion or string, including piano would be the easiest. However, if you mean "easy" in terms of playing a complex song, then I'd probably say the triangle, wood block, mambas and so forth. There is the challenge of getting the rhythm properly, however, there's only really one note (multiple notes in drums and other instruments) and it doesn't require complex finger dexterity nor proper blowing into the instrument.

[N Ryan]

well you can get some cups, fill them with water and blow. That's easy

[Tynan]

the cups are easy hehe.

[Union Of V]

Excluding percussion (because melodic and rythmic playing are completely different), I'd say the easiest instrument to play proper songs has to be the guitar. Learn a few chords and you're good to go.

Anyone who says voice is easy has not tried to fix a bad voice, it's torture!

[Brandon]

I've been playing guitar for a couple years now, and I can definitely say that it's not easy to learn. I still suck and can barely play a couple songs, and I know a few chords here and there. It's also about the strumming, and it's near impossible to stay on rhythm when you try singing and playing guitar at the same time. It takes a LOT of practice, but you can teach yourself how to play guitar. That's the only easy part about it.

The easiest instrument I've ever played was the recorder. I taught myself how to play the Titanic on the recorder in the 5th grade, so I'd imagine it can't be that hard to learn.

[Union Of V]

Originally Posted by Brandon

I've been playing guitar for a couple years now, and I can definitely say that it's not easy to learn. I still suck and can barely play a couple songs, and I know a few chords here and there. It's also about the strumming, and it's near impossible to stay on rhythm when you try singing and playing guitar at the same time. It takes a LOT of practice, but you can teach yourself how to play guitar. That's the only easy part about it.

Seriously - Knocking On Heaven's Door, 4 chord shapes, strumming as per original, you're saying that's hard? Try playing a fast chromatic scale on a piano, with a smooth crescendo, no notes sticking out, no notes unnoticeable.

[Tegan]

Originally Posted by mr_null

Any instrument is as easy as you make it, you're limited only by your imagination (well, and skill).

Agreed, just try and pick something that isn't too much of a tall order.
Then learn some basic notes. Start from the beginning and work up is my advice!

(Although as Elle said, the Triangle is a pretty good option )

[Tynan]

lol. do you guys play any instruments

[Angel]

The kazoo?

I wouldn't say that drums are the easiest if you're any like me.

[tortured soul]

Drums by far. Less things to remember and you can have fun with it. Come up with nice beats dont even have to be in timing will sound like a solo. Best are is YOU DONT HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY TO SOUND GOOshades:

[Tynan]

with drums you have to have a good since of timing, rhythm, and keeping a beat up. but if you can do that any percussion instrument would be easy.

[Pandaloo]

I'm surprised a lot of people have said drums. It does take a lot of rhythm and timing practise. Unless you play a straight simple rhythm for your entire life.

[tk338]

Drums are horribly hard xD Tried and failed Welll... anything above a simple rhythm but then as Amanda said you got to keep in time!

[Tynan]

drums are hard. but they are really fun to play.