Easiest musical instruments to learn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The flute. Really.

Actually, no. I play the flute and it is certainly not the easiet by how you have to have your embouchure and there are tons of different fingerings for it too. Also, it gets tiring sometimes when you have to keep holding the flute to the side and also your jaw and mouth have to be relaxed or else your cheeks will hurt. Also, low notes take lots of time without going a pitch too high and with the high notes, you have to be careful not be be a pitch or octave lower and you have to be careful to now squeak... and since the flute has a bunch of lead parts, everyone will know when you screw up. Tbh, it's one of the hardest to master and the most uncomfortable instrument too!

--Flutest

[Anonymous]

I would ask the band director at the school. No 10-year-old beginner sounds good on their instrument so don't sell your daughter short. I played the trumpet and sounded like a dying cow for a good while until my muscles were trained. If she doesn't have a great ear, you might want to try percussion. You mentioned concern about rhythm, but they start at such a basic level in elementary school band, that she can probably learn.

[Anonymous]

I have no rhythm and am completely tone deaf. I played the flute, and got pretty good at it, on a school band level. I wasn't going to be composing or anything but with practice I could read music and handle the fingerings and blowing parts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The flute. Really.

Actually, no. I play the flute and it is certainly not the easiet by how you have to have your embouchure and there are tons of different fingerings for it too. Also, it gets tiring sometimes when you have to keep holding the flute to the side and also your jaw and mouth have to be relaxed or else your cheeks will hurt. Also, low notes take lots of time without going a pitch too high and with the high notes, you have to be careful not be be a pitch or octave lower and you have to be careful to now squeak... and since the flute has a bunch of lead parts, everyone will know when you screw up. Tbh, it's one of the hardest to master and the most uncomfortable instrument too!

--Flutest

100% agree (another flutest here!) I think the people suggesting flute as the easiest, never played the flute.

[Anonymous]

Unless you're a diagnostic for prescribing tamiflu, you're probably flutists or flautists, not flutests.

But I do agree that band and orchestra generally don't sound great when played by beginners. And they all have their little tweaks that make them challenging. The good thing about clarinet is that there are a lot of chairs since it's kind of like the violin section of the band. But then again there is a lot of competition since lots of people start with clarinet. Flute and alto sax have the same figuring but obviously different mouth positions. Clarinet finguring matches more with tenor sax.

Most important thing for a kid is having enthusiasm for whichever instrument they choose.

-woodwind player