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What's the easiest 1st instrument to learn?

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AlaskaMonty · 15/09/2017 21:24

My DS has just started secondary school and a letter for music lessons has come out. He'd really like to learn something. He has narrowed it down to:
Drums
Guitar
Piano
Violin
Grin
He has asked which the easiest to start with would be, he can't read music, etc. I'm thinking piano as I see lots of little children be able to play that well?
Mind you, violin seems good as there are orchestras, etc.

OP posts:
Alljamissweet · 15/09/2017 21:39

Alto saxophone. Guitar, Recorder ..... though he's a bit old for that.
Definitely not Violin or piano.

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AlaskaMonty · 15/09/2017 21:37

No, he wants to learn how to read music, etc.

He isn't particularly fussed about playing pop/rock and quite likes the idea of classical.

He is very serious about this! Grin he has been asking for a while, but I could never do it outside of school.

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Mistigri · 15/09/2017 21:36

What sort of music does he enjoy listening to? What does he want to play?

There's no such thing as the "easiest instrument" but if there were, it wouldn't be any on that list ;)

Piano and violin are both hard to play well, though for different reasons. At 11 he might find violin frustrating as it will take a while to get to the point where he can play in orchestras.

Unless he is seriously interested in playing classical music, I'd consider guitar - cheap, versatile, sociable - and if you only play pop/rock music you can get away without being able to read sheet music.

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