I want to learn an instrument
 

I love music but I don't know much about it. I played trombone for two years in middle school and did well (haha) but I'd like to take up a fun instrument. What's good? I assume you guys will say guitar.. My buddy has one so I could try it but I have tennis elbow in both arms so I'm not sure if it will work out. Anyway I figured both piano and guitar would teach me alot about music and guitar might be more fun, what do you guys think? (I don't think i'd do piana cuz my mom has piano but id prolly have to get electric one or w/e). I could DJ I guess but I just want to get into music, I hear its good for ur brain and it's fun so yeah...

so you cant play guitar and dont want to learn piano... drums or vocal lessons maybe? although drums would be worse for your elbows...

id definately start out with piano to get a background in music.. once you learn piano well enough you can pick up almost anything pretty easily.

Don't give up on guitar...it's how you position it

Wow. I've lived in the perfect environment to learn an instrument and never chosen to. My mom has a piano and my dad has drums. I'll use my sister's book to learn piano and have my dad teach me drums if possible. My buddy has a guitar he doesn't use maybe I can get him to sell it to me and take lessons. I don't got much money but I think I can make this work. I guess you're never to old to learn music (I'm 20).

different instruments have different sounds experiment with a few and see whichj one u like the best

and dont worry just practice ALOT and ull catch up in no time =)

I'd recommend learing to play the piano and guitar

I think starting with the piano then moving on to guitar would be best. But I want to echo what someone above said too - try a few out and see if any of them jump out at you in particular.

The mandolin might be a neat little instrument for you. I tried out my friend's dad's mando, and I learned A, Am, D, and G chords within 20 minutes. It's got a sweet sound too, and it's very small.

I would really just start with the piano. I started with the piano and now I play 4 instruments and i honestly i think i did so well because of my background in piano. if you need any sheet music...i can hook you up..hahaha

How bout bass much easier than guitar. And after awhile you will be able to make easy transition to the guitar.

Why exactly do you think bass is easier? The number of strings isn't really relevant.

Well it was much easier for me.

for you......but its different for everyone

Cmon bass is easy!

I disagree really. An instrument is as hard as you make it. If you're going to do the whole 'play a root note once or twice per bar', then bass will be easy.

If you're going to work on truly developing groove, perfect tone and muting, three finger technique etc, then I don't see how bass can be called an easy instrument.

Yeah. My dad is totally interested in teaching me drums. He's glad to see that I have an interest in it. Me and him didn't use to get along well :-P. Now maybe he can help get me off and running. Back when I did trombone I remember rythm and beats were my biggest problem so maybe learning percussion will help. but I will also focus heavy on piano sinse it is a great place to start. If you could give me sheet music or post it on internet or I'll give you my email thats awesome. thanks guys i didnt think posting on a forum would get me this much advice. If you guys can help me more thats cool too lol, I don't kno whether i could use more advice or not really.

good, i really advise piano first. the drums dont have that many notes and its more about keeping a beat and stuff. Piano will give you a solid background in music when it comes to learning other instruments

and the idiot that said that thing about the bass... bass can be easier in some aspects but once you try more complicated playing styles it becomes, well more complicated :P

If you are in to brass trumpet is fun (in my opinion :wave:). Also easy to jump into as it only has 3 keys (although there are more combinations than you would expect...) Gota have lots of lung power however.

I know what you mean with the guitar and piano. Well, I would probably suggest maybe saxophone? or...maybe...um...trumpet because you did trombone for a while so it should be easy enough.