guitar

[batdog]

hard to learn

 

[batdog]

is the guitar the hardest instrument to learn ?

 

[smk506]

Hard to learn. Very fun.

 

[pondcaster]

Not easy, not necessarily difficult but time well spent...very rewarding.

 

[batdog]

your right hard learn but rewarding I've played different musical instruments nothing as complex as the guitar
and different styles that's why its addictive im hooked !!

 

[batdog]

when I look at a guitar that is well made I see a piece of fine furniture or classic car like corvette

 

[Thundermtn]

Don't get a steel guitar, adds both feet and a knee, but you do get to be a surfer and a cowboy at the same time. Hopefully not the awful Kenny Chesney way though.

 

[Duane_the_tub]

Harder than drums, easier than piano.

 

[speyfly]

Stick with it, well worth your invested time. One day depending on how much you put into it, the door will open up for you.

 

[1allspub]

Easy... picked it up on a week.

NOT... 37yrs into it and I still suck! HA!

 

[ehb]

I disagree. No instrument is any harder to learn to play than another....

Each instrument family is just a different mindset. If one is willing to 'shed on any particular instrument, one might find that different does not equate to more difficult.... With enough work, learning another instrument becomes just different mechanics to make it happen... One is not actually starting at zero on a different instrument.... Growing up around musicians, there were always instruments around. Because of that, I didn't think in terms of instrument. I thought in terms of tone. Which instrument would I have to utilize to produce what I heard in my head. Not difficult, just different.... What do valves on a brass instrument actually mechanically do? What do keys on winds actually mechanically do? What do keys on a piano actually mechanically do? What does a movable slide on a trombone (think of what valves on other brass instruments do) actually mechanically do? You will start to see some interesting similarities....

One's concept of 'hard' is dependent on one's willingness to work....

 

[Roxy13]

For me, it's piano. Playing both bass and regular scale at the same time.

 

[Peter M]

Everything is hard until you practice regularly. Keep practicing.

 

[diskotekno]

boop boop beep boop. I am not a robot. Guitar fun.

 

[redcoats1976]

64 years old,been playing on and off since i was 14.im almost halfway decent,but theres lots of really talented people out there.

 

[Cozmik Cowboy]

is the guitar the hardest instrument to learn ?

While I have always been too intimidated to even try it, I'd think pedal steel would be more difficult by several magnitudes. I mean, take guitar - then add (in most cases) 4 more strings. And your feet and knees are constantly changing the tuning......

My head hurts just thinking about it.

Also, I used to date a keyboardist who said pipe organ is the hardest, because of the delay between key & bellows; you're always hearing what you played 3-4 notes ago.

 

[BKS]

Triangle now that is difficult...

 

[01GT Eibach]

I disagree with guitar being a difficult instrument to learn. When I first started playing at age 12, I was surprised with the first few basic chords I learned how many popular rock riffs and AC/DC songs were immediately accessible. I took lessons the first year learning the Eagles songbook. While I was not a big Eagles fan as a 12-year-old, I learned alot about musicality, strum patterns, different chord fingerings, etc. that made me a better guitar player than my peers that were stuck on "Smoke On The Water" and "Breaking The Law". Yes, I agree that playing songs well is a whole 'nother level, but there are the immediate rewards playing guitar. And then quality lead guitar playing is a whole other level above that.
You want difficult??? Inspired by the Dregs in the 1980s, my keyboardist and I were both inspired to learn to play VIOLIN. Now THAT is difficult to learn! Both of us eventually gave up.

 

[motowntom]

is the guitar the hardest instrument to learn ?

Try violin....
Cheers

 

[Ronaldo]

Harder to learn when you don’t have all your fretting hand digits.