What's the easiest musical instrument to learn and play?

Question

What's the easiest musical instrument to learn and play?

Answer 1

Saxophone I learned it in Two days

Answer 2

the triangle...lol

joke joke!!!

I found the guitar quiet easy

Answer 3

trombone easy simple notes and they are in order, not like trumpet with tons of combinations of 3

Answer 4

flute.

learned how to play in half an hour.

Answer 5

Define "learn" and "play".

Sure there are instruments like saxophone that are fairly  easy to learn a simple scale and play really easy melodies pretty quickly.  And it really only takes a few weeks to learn 3 or 4 chords on guitar and play a simple folk song.

But if you actually want to be able to play anything you want on your chosen instrument, sit in and play with other people fluently, be able to improvise and compose at will, and hear a song you don't know and be able to play along by ear after hearing it only once or twice -- IOW, if you actually want to be an artist on your chosen instrument and make MUSIC -- then there are NO easy instruments.

Choose an instrument you love, whose sound fascinates you, and that is used in a style of music you're excited about playing, and learn THAT instead of trying to slide by with the "easiest" instrument.

Answer 6

Sitar

soooo nice...

Answer 7

I mastered the guitar in 20 years.

Answer 8

kazoo

Answer 9

Drums they take no talent.

Answer 10

I'd suggest start looking at your favorite music then choosing an instrument thats used in it for starters.

If you choose an instrument purely on it's ease of learning you'll end up feel unsatisfied.

But if thats what your looking for the Harmonicas a cheap and versatile instrument to begin with

Good luck!

Answer 11

Any instrument is easy to play badly.  

It's getting good that is hard.

Instead of looking for an 'easy' instrument, learn one you LIKE, you will have more fun, and go farther that way.

Answer 12

LOL. someoen said a bell.. hehe, though ive seen a bell symphony, and it doesnt look easy.

but i say, if youre gonna learn an instrument, why not something you would actually want to play, cz you wouldnt wanna play an instrument that you wont enjoy, then you wont practice, thus, you wont learn

Answer 13

A Bell?

Answer 14

I don't think there is an instrument that is 'easiest' to play as they all get hard as you go up through the grades...

But maybe a percussion, brass or woodwind instrument?

Answer 15

I  would say vibes/xylophone. or bass and explain why at the bottom.

here is my reasoning,

for drums you need to have rhythm and you usually have to be doing three things at once (foot, left hand, right hand - very fun but complicated in the beginning to master doing something differently from your left hand and right hand and foot!)

for guitar/ukeulele/banjo - you need to learn fingerings, you have to memorize all the Maj and Min and Dom and 7ths and that's JUST the easy chords, i've been doing it for a while and I still forget, i mean you could just learn the songs you want but then you wouldn't be very good at the guitar i reckon. Then you have to know scales if you want to solo or jam correctly, there is A LOT to remember. Some people have trouble putting their fingers in specific ways.

for saxophone/clarinet/flute/trumpet - there is a lot of emphasis on what you do with your mouth. trumpet also involves pressing down your fingers for the correct amount. I suppose after you get good with your mouth it comes down to memorizing notes and which isn't that terrible for these instruments but for some reason i don't find them as fun to play. so this one is a little biased.

keyboard/piano - forget about it, you need to know rhythm and chords and scales. you need to start early with the piano. it's complicated and not easy to transport. then again there is a certain simpleness of pressing a key and getting a note.

cello/violin/viola etc. - these are beautiful and fun to play but unlike guitar and bass they do not have frets so you have to know exactly where to put your finger for the note, plus i find the difference  between plucking and fingering and instrument and bowing and fingering and instrument incredibly different with the latter being harder. It takes a while to get the bow to produce strong clear notes.

therefore

the vibes is a lot like the piano except you don't need to know chords because you aren't using 10 mallets unlike 10 fingers with your hand. you need rhythm but it's about creating the melody which is a little easier when you have people below supporting you. However vibes are expensive and not easy to transport therefore

the bass is a lot like it in the sense you don't need to know how to play chords (you just need to know what chords everyone else is playing and play accordingly) usually you can get away with rather simple riffs and yet it will still sound fat and full. there is only four strings as opposed to six to keep track of.

they are easy to transport and fun to play as well

(also to people who say saxophone and flute they are not that hard to learn to play originally but i would say it is easier to get really good at bass before you get really good at saxophone)