Well to be fair, church organ is a standard keyboard instrument and assuming you've played some other keyboard instruments you could probably manage it pretty well. A really hard keyboard(?) Instrument is the glass armonica. All the notes are layer out but tge technique is ridiculous. Where you have to use pressure, turning speed, and moving your fingers at different speeds, in different places, with different amounts of pressurr, but at the same tjme
@@user-fe7gm3cf3k that's still pretty simple on turns of complexity. When you boil down a keyboard it's just press button at tge right time and pressure. It's just 3 keyboards, of you learn one you learn them all.
@@randomhuman3883church organist here. Actually, it's 1-5 manuals and then there's a pedal board you play with your feet. Like, actually PLAY on a big keyboard for your feet, usually the bass notes but sometimes advanced melodies. We play 4-5 harmonies all at once and it's just multitasking as an instrument. I will say though, as I'm also a violinist, creating a beautiful sound on the violin is much harder. They're just both difficult in their own ways.
i was the second to join the violin group at my school, ive seen about 10 people leaving and I'm the oldest player in the group atm 😂 (3 years, not that long tbh)
At the start of secondary school, 30-odd of us had to learn the violin for the first term. We had the option of continuing (tbf with paid lessons). Almost 3 years later, I’m the only one still playing.
If you started trombone young, your muscle memory gets less accurate as you grow, so you have to constantly retrain your muscles to be in the correct slide positions.
"But it will be easy to tune it like the guitar right?" "NAAAAAAAAAAAAH, you gonna play russian roulette whilst tuning it" (My violin teacher had a scar from tuning.)
I once tried to tune my violin with the pegs, which I hadn’t done much before, and then I SNAPPED my E STRING and I had to shift on the A string to make my piece work. I have been nervous to tune with pegs by myself since
The cello is even harder, you get the added difficulty of extra posture issues, endpin to keep on the floor, and harder to hit high notes because you have to get your elbow over.
We have tighter spacing up high along with those really high notes being real hard to make sound nice. At the top octave of any given string we have to stack our fingers
@@opop5794I forgot about that. I guess that the cello and violin are about equal in difficulty. Thanks for reminding me of this! It makes sense too, because if I have a hard time the higher it goes (mostly because I don't know those notes with muscle memory) it must be harder on violin.
@@seanathanbeanathan I'm lucky enough that I could learn both piano and the accordion in music school, which in my country is separate from normal school (so I can proudly say that I have 26 years of education at 20), and I spent six years learning to play it well. The most important thing is that you choose the right type of accordion for yourself, I chose the one with a keyboard, next it will take some time but with some simple songs you'd have to learn the positionings of the buttons on the left hand and also be able to move your fingers independently from the style of the other hand, when you can play some simple tunes and be able to play the music scale? (I don't know the english term for going up and down in notes), you can practise some etudes or some simple tangos and procced from here on, one recommendation I have is that when you start, play with a mirror in front of you so you can see where your fingers are located and help yourself.
I love looking at musicians talking amongst themselves, each thinking they have it the hardest, and each completely missing the point of why most of us wanted to do music in the first place
No one seems to consider that instruments like the trumpet, and even worse the trombone, have no such references as "strings" or such. Trumpet, at least, has valves, and they are a closed number (even with all the notes that you have to make with the same fingering). Trombone has absolutely nothing to "attribute" a note to a precise fingering. You basically have your mouth and a slide, both unprecise and approximate in movements.
Basically anything in the soprano range is insanely difficult because the space between notes gets shorter the higher you go so there’s a lot less room for error. It’s also why the soprano saxophone is the most difficult saxophone to play
Villinist here, remember the doublebass, they have to change postures 18 times per children song, its easier to be out of tune on the violin but its harder to land the note to a bass
@@_pigeons_ I legit want to play chello, but it's not plausible to carry it around, only at home unless you have a good protective case, which usually costs the same as the instrument itself I can't afford it, so I will grab the principles of violin, viola, and bring them to the chello I will visit my teacher every now and then with my chello, but not every class
IMO, the Oud is a way harder string instrument especially because you’re on your own learning it. It’s fretless with a nasty plectrum and the way you hold it means you can’t see either of your hands AND there’s a whole step interval between two of the strings, which is really hard to work around.
I still think having to read 2 lines of music at the same time are the hardest Insturments. Especially harp and organ that get the hands and feet moving not to mention 3 lines of music to read simultaneously with the organ.
yes but they don't have to worry about intonation, bow contact point, crooked bow, squeaky/crunchy sounds i think u get it... and also, two lines of music is only a problem when sightreading which happens a lot less if you're a play the piano or organ
@@jumbopopcorn8979 the notes are preset on a piano and you don' have to worry about your fingers being 0.1 millimetres off the right spot and still sounding out of tune
I play violin, and as such I'm sorry if I end reality with this one, but viola sounds really good and is underrated. And I can't wait to learn to play it lol
After playing something on a viola or a violin, piano (even something very technically challenging) feels like a walk in the park. The strings are, at least to me, just so much more physically and mentally taxing.
With a trombone you have to rely on muscle memory to find the note and the slide position changes based on the harmonic and the temperature of the instrument.
Altogether, my family plays the trumpet, the trombone, the banjo, the guitar, the viola, the fiddle, the cello, the saxophone, the piano and the organ. I play the oboe, cello, piano, violin and saxophone. Imagine our dinner discussions about the hardest instrument. Also bear in mind we all play in bands and orchestras and we all sing in multiple choirs. There’s one we’re all in it and if we didn’t show up one day the choir physically couldn’t perform because there wouldn’t be enough singers, a conductor or an organist. That’s unrelated, but I need people to know my incredibly talented family’s contributions to the music community. Ps: haven’t even started on my extended family
Don’t forget that the finger placements are slightly different for each string and the spacing for half and whole steps change depending on which position you’re in 😂
Can we remember how hard it is to play a piano if you're not born with a talent and a perfect pitch and even then, you have to try jazz , classical music, Chopin and his bending of time and everyone will want you to play a song for them, usually pop or smth that takes time to learn but can only be learned if you figured out how to listen to the music in a different way to find the bass. Whew that was a lot😅
Counter argument, you basically described a trombone with strings. *hard to see (assuming you watch your director) *no valves *muscle memory *played with awkward tool
This gives me a diabolical idea. Take a violin and play it like a cello, but you rest it against your knee. Can play sitting down or balancing on one leg.
stong willed being the important bit there. whenever my (unfortunately) violinist friends tried pressing down the strings on my bass they said ow and asked me why it was so difficult 💀
Literally the tuning and tone of almost every wind istrument is determined by your air pressure, tongue position, mouth shape, palette manipulation, plus coordination with fingers. That seems at least as difficult.
It’s kind of the same with woodwind instrumentalists and flutes because with flute it’s also so close to your face that depending on different stuff you can’t see half the flute and it requires a lot of air and you have to control that air carefully otherwise it’s gonna mess up the entire song
Hot take, the saxophone is the closest wind to the violin and the repituar that saxophones stole helps back this up. Just here to make classical musicians days a little worse
But this is why it's so versatile. Violins can easy switch styles and tuning systems. U can go from Country all the way to authentic music from a specified Middle Eastern country (if you learn the style).
As a former violinist and weak-willed person, switching to the guitar was the best decision of my life. now I can learn how to play stuff I actually listen to...
I play french horn which i know isnt the hardest to learn but was in my class because people only really played the trombone, trumpet, flute, alto sax that stuff. (Also it was my teacher that told me this when i asked what was the easiest and hardest instrument in our band]
@skidscreenhead I somewhat disagree with harp, but only because I play lever and not pedal 😂 I found it pretty easy to get a good tone from the get go and I feel like there isn't a huge jump in difficulty as you learn the more techniques. The hardest thing for me about lever harp is the back strain from tuning. I'd add shamisen and similar intrusments to the list, I was lucky enough to be able to try one out and it broke my brain a little
