Which music instrument is most difficult to learn?

SmokeAndMirrors · 02-08-2018, 03:33 PM

Personally? Brass. Alto Sax. As much as I love it, I tried one out for a friend of mine once. It took me like 10 minutes just to get one note. That reed on the mouthpiece is a mother****er. lol.

Overall? Yeah, I second the sitar. They're extremely delicate. That's part of the factor, the other part of the factor being that there's about as much of note sustain to them as there is with banjos, which is not very much at all. Banjos are another hard one to learn.

The violin is difficult, but not as much so. Mostly that it's a highly compartmentalized space, and it's likely that your neck and hand are really going to cramp up uncomfortably for a while.

In terms of coordination, I'd think that one of the octobass that Wagner used, the really huge ones that required one guy on a ladder and another on the ground to play, would be difficult to learn.

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SmokeAndMirrors Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: In the Void Posts: 174	Personally? Brass. Alto Sax. As much as I love it, I tried one out for a friend of mine once. It took me like 10 minutes just to get one note. That reed on the mouthpiece is a mother****er. lol. Overall? Yeah, I second the sitar. They're extremely delicate. That's part of the factor, the other part of the factor being that there's about as much of note sustain to them as there is with banjos, which is not very much at all. Banjos are another hard one to learn. The violin is difficult, but not as much so. Mostly that it's a highly compartmentalized space, and it's likely that your neck and hand are really going to cramp up uncomfortably for a while. In terms of coordination, I'd think that one of the octobass that Wagner used, the really huge ones that required one guy on a ladder and another on the ground to play, would be difficult to learn.