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View Poll Results: Which is the hardest to learn? | |
The Bass
|    | 3 | 7.50% | |
The Guitar
|    | 4 | 10.00% | |
The Drums
|    | 14 | 35.00% | |
The Keyboard
|    | 19 | 47.50% |
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10-11-2005, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW JERSEY | | | which instrument is harder to play? (Bass, Guitar ,Drums, Keyboard)
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I know that their is no real answer to this question because it depends on the individual. But for discussion purposes, what is your opinion and why?
The bass has popping, slapping and thumping!
The guitar has strumming, chords and a tiny neck and strings and requires a pick!
The drums are physically exhausting and requires timing!
The keyboard requires both hands to function independantly!
To me, the guitar is the hardest! They make them so damn small! I can wrap my index finger around the whole neck and I cant use a pick to save my life!
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10-11-2005, 10:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Los Angeles | | | The instrument is secondary.
Making good music is the hard part.
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10-11-2005, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Davehenning The instrument is secondary.
Making good music is the hard part. | I agree, it's not the (insert instrument)! It's the (insert instrument) player!
But for the sake of discussion, to me the guitar was just damn near impossible for me. There would be hope for me on the drums if I wanted to play, and the keyboard I could get use to if I wanted, but I can't even play the guitar!
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10-11-2005, 10:40 AM
| | there is no spoo | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Mid-Hudson Valley, NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by de la mocha their is no real answer to this question because it depends on the individual | +1
Even an opinion that comes from a person who can play them all, it's still an individual matter. What's easier for them. I have a sister-in-law that can play anything she hears on the piano. Never had a lesson, doesn't practise. Just plays. Her posture on the instrument is very idiosyncratic because she's completely untrained. What are you going to do with something like that? |
10-11-2005, 11:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | I can't play drums for the life of me. I can tap and all, but when I sit and try to play it, it just feels weird. |
10-11-2005, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | Drums can be hard. I can do it for a little while, but keeping up and doing interesting things with the beat is hard. I'm lost with anything that isn't straight 4/4.
Guitar is ridiculously easy. Learn one bar chord and go up and down the neck. Hey! Want to form a band?
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10-11-2005, 12:10 PM
| | I admit it, I'm a "user" | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Israel | | For me the hardest is keayboard, no doubt about it.
How the hell do you make chords or dismantled chords with one hand and complecated 3 octaves melody with the other one.  
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10-11-2005, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Davehenning The instrument is secondary.
Making good music is the hard part. | 1 + Sorry but imo threads like what is harder to play or bass vs. guitar vs. drums etc. are pointless . |
10-11-2005, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: West Yorkshire, UK | | | They're all easy to play. They're all hard to play well. |
10-11-2005, 12:48 PM
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get to work. |
10-11-2005, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Aj* They're all easy to play. They're all hard to play well. | 
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10-11-2005, 01:35 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | I think that each instrument has its own problems to solve. A double bass can't handle super-fast passages as the violin does, which make most people think that the violin is harder to play, but the amount of physical endurance and stamina required to play DB makes it a VERY difficult instrument in its own area. In terms of "physical barriers" to overcome, it's been said (and the Guinness Records book supports this) that the most difficult instruments are the French Horn (an excellent player allegedly can get many different pitches from a hose) and the oboe, which is called "the perverse woodwind that nobody can play properly". |
10-11-2005, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. it's been said (and the Guinness Records book supports this) that the most difficult instruments are the French Horn (an excellent player allegedly can get many different pitches from a hose) and the oboe, which is called "the perverse woodwind that nobody can play properly". | BTW, Guinness also says that the easiest instrument is the Ukulele... |
10-11-2005, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Davehenning The instrument is secondary.
Making good music is the hard part. | Yup, getting the ideas created is the hardest part I would assume, I don't play, but I know alot of peeps who do, and its hard to come up with something new and fresh. But I say piano personally, I think bass is easier than that, I can at least play Mary had a Little Lamb on a bass guitar. 
**so i guess piano would fall under keyboard so I am voting for that one! |
10-11-2005, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Drums... well keys moreso... but drums sound better.
Really, I segregate these two because in order to become proficient at both, you have to have total control over both sides of your brain. I do not. Drummers include both hands and both feet... but a "good" keyboard player does the same. (I put good in quotes... because I don't think bass players like these guys.  )
Oh yeah, music isn't a competition... blah blah blah.
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10-12-2005, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. BTW, Guinness also says that the easiest instrument is the Ukulele... | Ahaa! So what this guy plays is actually easy? http://boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/...e-weeps-p1.php |
10-12-2005, 05:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Boca Raton, Florida | | | I play both the drums (25 yrs) and Bass (-6 months). IMO the Drums are harder to play. It requires all 4 of your limbs to do different things at different times consistently. Depending on what you play, You need to be in good physical shape, have stamina, and keep mentally fit. As I progress as a bassist my feelings may change.
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10-12-2005, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by bos_mindwarp | Probably easier to play on the Uke then on the Bass. But, the guy is awesome
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10-12-2005, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by bos_mindwarp | So cool! Somebody should show this to the Guinness guys.  |
10-12-2005, 03:06 PM
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