Organ: has to play with your feet along with both hands and multiple levels of keys and has to sight read goes in #9 piano:you have to play with both hands and has to sight read and goes in #5
Nacho Chess no, you are so wrong organ will always be harder, on piano you have 1 sort of sound on organ you need to combine stops to make a good sound and you have to play with your feet
Thanks WatchMojo, for using clips of my videos where I play really difficult harp music, to describe how easy it is to play the harp! Can confirm, all I need to do is sit down near the harp and wiggle my fingers, and *magic happens*, haha. Ps. we are literally all angels. All of us.
I was gonna say, piano is one keyboard and 3 foot pedals... pipe organ is 3 or more keyboards, another full keyboard you play with your feet, and a wall of levers and knobs. Whoever made this list obviously just picked some random instruments out of a hat, lol.
They really should have used the same type of music for everything. Pop music definitely isn’t everything. (Classical music has been written for guitar…, Amazing Grace on bagpipes, saying nothing of Erlkonig for piano or violin and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue on organ)
You can’t say an instrument is added than another instrument. It’s just wrong. Every instrument is different in its own way. The organ looks way harder than for example the violin, but when you try it, their the same difficulty. You just have to focus on different things. The organ looks hard and it is, but playing 3 pianos jut on top of each other isn’t that hard compared to using one piano. Moving your hands a bit down or up isn’t to hard. The piano you use with your feet is harder, but mostly easy to feel and you don’t normally play complex pieces on the hand piano and foot piano at the same time. Keep in mind Im not saying pipe organ Is easy, I’m just saying it’s not extremely hard compared to other instruments. No instrument is easier than other. It’s just wrong to say this is harder than this.
AND WHY IS THE ONLY THINGS THEY ARE SHOWING IS STUPID POP SONGS??? AND I MEAN EVEN IF ITS THERE FOR A REASON, WHY IS THE ORGAN 5 PLACES UNDER IT???? I AGREE AS A PIANIST THAT HAS BEEN BETRAILED
oh my god, yeah. They were like "you have to read two lines of music at the same time" while showing someone playing without the music in front of them. I personally hate reading sheet music so I memorise them instead.
Me too, and same with the organ. Though, reading the notes at first takes practice, and will get better over time, regardless of age. Just have to keep learning different songs.
Ok. Firs of all, how many of you are musicians. Secondly, how many of you have played multiple instruments on this list. And third, your absolutely wrong. Now I’m not an expert on brass or woodwind, but I can tell you the harp, piano, pipe organ, and especially the violin deserve their spots on this list. Now I’m not amazing at the harp or Pipe organ, and I’m not the best at piano, but I am a professional violist, which is a very similar instrument to the violin, and I can tell you that it certainly deserves its place on number one.
So you don’t have to watch the whole thing: 10: Drums 9: Pipe Oregon 8: Accordion 7: Oboe 6: Guitar 5: Piano 4: Harp 3: Bagpipe 2: French Horn 1: Violin Not saying I agree with the order, but that’s what it is :/
Richard de munck I totally agree, it was EXTREMELY difficult to learn and took 4 years to do so, but I have finally become a professional triangle player.
Maybe because controlling the force of your fingers is harder, since you directly hit the strings with the keys, compared to the organ, where you just move valves. Though I have never played organ.
No b/c the organ has all the buttons that all it just to is control the sound of the other keys. Also it can make u lazy at times b/c if u just want to change the sound all u have to do is pick another set of keys 🎹
I play both the piano and organ... and i guarantee u the piano is harder. Sure the organ has more keyboards but once u have learned that, the rest is izi
yes same with all instruments, but no instrument gets harder repertoire than piano at the highest levels not even violin with paganini, which is the closest
Fr, there's so many different techniques and nuances to every genre of guitar playing from classical, to flamenco, to jazz, to rock, to metal, etc. This entire video subverts all the true musicianship needed to play any of these instrumenta
@@pusheenpandaa well... a classical guitar is acoustic. Theoretically, every instrument not amplified by electricity is an acoustic instrument. It's just a recent trend to classify a steel string solely as an acoustic. But enough about that! This video triggers me AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@kpaenen its acoustic but it isnt an ACOUSTIC GUITAR. if you're labelling it as an acoustic guitar in that sense, a violin can be called an acoustic guitar. and we all know thats SACRELIGIOUS. haha but i get what you're saying.
5:01 "whilst simultaneously sight-reading" Not true. Most pianists play without actually concentrating on sheet music. They play pieces from memory instead, which is far easier than sight-reading. The only time we need sheet music is when we are learning a piece.
Organists read three lines of music, I wonder why that wasn't mentioned... Also you should be able to read music well enough that you don't need to practice everything into muscle memory to play it, and if you are playing by memory that's different
Everything I perform I play from memory. Can't help it. You have to play it so many times to get to a performance level, you just naturally memorize it.
Playing pieces from memory require much practice. Easy pieces that are a page or two and relating at that except for a key change are easy. But going from that to ten page pieces has been difficult for me to memorize when I’m playing for the first week or so.
You are right, and another thing that matters about watchmojo being annoyingly stupid: IF THE INSTRUMENTS BASICS ARE EASY TO LEARN, BUT ITS HARD TO MASTER IT, THEN A. *ITS A HARD INSTRUMENT!!!* B. *YOU CAN SAY THAT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!*
My mom was a violin teacher, I know every standard piece for beginners by hard, because I had to listen to it all day during my childhood.I still wonder, what love for teaching she must have had, because sometimes it must have been really hard. Every other day she would come to my room during a lesson, sit down and say: "Guess, which piece it is." , because the student learned the piece so wrong at home :D
its not. most repertoire of organ is easier than the piano one, which have the hardest pieces from any instrument thats why piano is technically easier than a piano with footwork (organ) at first. but as you go, it's the other way around
@@Populous3Tutorials on the contrary, if you are learning them from scratch, its easier to learn piano before organ, as having that prior knowledge of how to play a single keyboard helps a lot with learning the organ. Additionally, many organ pieces require a lot more sight reading, and most organists are required to multitask like hell, looking at three staves of music, playing with both hands and feet, pressing buttons either both hands and feet (stops, generals and divisionals) and controlling swell pedals. And, if accompanying, the organist is required to look at the conductor. A pianist has to do a mere fraction of all this. That's my argument for why organ is way harder to learn than piano. I get what you mean, a lot of piano songs are very complicated, but most aren't as complicated as some organ pieces. Add tonal dissonance on top of that, because what organ composer doesn't like a bunch of that, and you have an extremely difficult piece to play, let alone learn.
I am a harpist and I can say that pedal harps are a pain. It requires a lot of coordination and I mean a lot! It's like losing your dominant hand and you have to rely on your other hand. Not to mention, keeping track of your feet and reading music at the same time. Like to see Piano and Trombone on this list, That is nothing compared to the difficulty of the harp. Harps are really expensive and require a lot of dedication to lessons which are also expensive. So, I can definitely say that harp is a really hard instrument.
Now try an instrument where your non-dominant hand must play exactly was well as your dominant hand, plus instead of just having a handful of pedals, you have 32 pedals spread across a pedalboard about 5' wide for you to play with your feet. Not to bash the harp, but can't compare to the organ.
I know a lot of horn players who are fantastic and their ego is anything but unbreakable 😂, but I guess if you ever play wrong, do it with conviction lmao
It's not. WatchMojo is just being silly. I don't play piano well, but once I learned how the organ worked, I discovered my dream of maybe playing the organ someday was crushed and split into a million pieces.
Josh XMS Piano is fairly simple. Just separating between Bass and Melody is often difficult. And how easy it is to hit accidentals instead of regular notes, and Vice Versa. Having large hands is both easy (because added reach) and hard (because the added coordination needed to move fingers correctly)
Yeah, like, piano is hard because you have to coordinate both your hands and read two staffs - what about playing with all your limbs and reading three staves? Also, the organ will never forgive you if your legato technique is not perfect.
Organ has: -Up to 4 Keyboards -More stops than you can count -Pedal board -2+ Pedal things I forgot the name of to control dynamics. *_HOW IS IT ONLY NUMBER 9?!_*
This is what happens when a company filled with inexperienced individuals makes a list of the "hardest" instruments. Someone in the comments previously said that 70% of the population plays guitar and/or piano. Also, Watchmojo put this list WAY out of order. Another reason why this video is so bad.
That's just nonsense. Every instrument can be easy or hard to play, it just depends on which level you want to reach. (Even the triangle is hard to master!!)
as someone who plays 11 instruments (flute, violin, saxophone, cello, french horn, tuba, baritone, guitar, piano, organ) i can tell you they got this fricked up!! flute, cello, and tuba are the hardest in my OPINION!!
Tapering Ranger so true, ive been playing for nearly fifteen years and i certainly have not mastered it, and thats after god knows how many concerts, concertos, theory classes, master classes and what have you
Tapering Ranger Honestly, learning piano seemed like the easiest thing to do because it's so straightforward: you press the key and it makes the sound as opposed to woodwind instruments. But getting the right sound, dynamics and performance element in is what takes a lot to learn.
I totally agree, even though I’m a year late. I’ve been playing piano for about six years. It was easy to learn, but I’m not even close to mastering it yet. And a lot of people say “oh I can play piano, that’s easy” they’re wrong. They can press keys, sure, but I doubt they can read actual music and put in all the technique that makes it sound super amazing. I hate this actual video, but I love all of the things actual musicians are saying in the comments.
How is Piano higher then Organ, when Organ is literally just a Piano but wind based, has stop buttons, and a crap ton extra keys for your hands and feet.
As a piano player, I believe the piano is one of those instruments. Easy to pick up, but hard to master. The organ is both hard to pick up and master. So why in the HELL is piano higher than the pipe organ? Well no, its placement makes sense. What i meant to say was: *WHY THE HELL IS THE PIPE ORGAN SO LOW ON THE DAMN LIST!??*
I play violin and bass guitar... I am trying to learn the banjo I guess any instrument is hard during the first couple of weeks, i picked up on bass guitar pretty easily when i was 10-11years old.. If you take the time and effort to learn and instrument... Some day it will appear to you as easy.. Im level 5 in violin and i love the melody parts we get to play 😛😛 Im 13 now btw😐😐 Im a girl too if you hadnt already figured... Bye
I guess because the margin of error on a violin is smaller, since the instrument is smaller. Plus, they tend to play the more interesting (and harder) parts.
I have not played flute but I play tuba and trumpet it I can support you on how your one of the only woodwinds that actually have to change there face for every note. (And I've heard flute requires a lot of air like tuba and other brass)
@@secondmover7546 I've been playing the flute for three years now (I recognize I'm no expert) but I had a really pleasant experience with the instrument. Trumpet on the other side... I "forced" myself a whole year to learn it and it was chaos, the hardest instrument I've tried. Even today I panic remembering the experience.
Musician rant, here we go! I *REALLY* don't like these kinds of videos, for many reasons. This 'hardest instrument to learn' bullcrap really doesn't explain the reasons behind each selection, or at least not enough. Wanna hear the truth about which instrument is the hardest to play? I'll tell you: It really DOESN'T MATTER! It's like saying the the recorder is a child-like instrument and is easy. Do you think that? if so, You're *WRONG* . Recorder has over 900 years of repertoire, and can be played professionally. Is it easy to play? NO! Of course not! Every single instruments have things that may be easy on some instruments but difficult on others. It's like Tuba vs. Euphonium. The tuba specializes in it's lower range because it's literally MANUFACTURED to have the ability to play lower than other instruments. The euphonium is very similar to the tuba, it is conical, it can have 3 or more valves, but is usually pitched an octave higher than a BBb tuba. Although it's purpose _is_ to play low, due to it's smaller bore size and length it is able to play higher. Do you know why harmonics are much closer together on horn than other brass instruments? It's length and bore size. A normal single-horn in F is about 18 feet, the same length of an F tuba. The reason that it isn't an actual bass tuba is because it has a very small bore size, and uses a _significantly_ smaller mouthpiece. This causes two things; It affects the horn's ability to play lower, and the small mouthpiece size causes a smaller embouchure and causes the instrument, again, to be higher in pitch. If you are an experienced musician you would know that the higher up in the harmonic series, the smaller the intervals between notes. This makes it easier to miss notes. That is one reason the horn in F is a difficult instrument. Acoustic string instruments like violin, viola, cello, and double bass don't have frets which gives them the ability to change the intonation of a note by thousands of a semitone. This effects the ability to play in tune, which is one of the difficulties of playing one of those instruments. The same is true to trombones, as they are literally a GIANT tuning. All said and done, each instruments have their own things that make them difficult. Also stereotypes. As a tuba player I get a lot of people, even people in my band, saying stuff like how tuba is easy and isn't hard because we don't play the melody. But guess what? Have THEY ever played tuba? Have THEY ever tried to hold a high note for 17 beats while crescendoing to fortissimo at 40 BPM with an instrument that needs major air support? Probably not! Maybe, but probably not! Any stereotypes on instruments are usually fake. PLus the way they said LEARN not PLAY is confusing, because all instruments are hard to learn. I also did this on the "Top Ten Coolest Instruments" cause every instrument is cool in their own way. If you're reading this, you made it through my rant! Thanks!
Doge Music Productions Great rant! I (as a drummer) am tired of people saying that playing drums or bass is easy. Why would anyone think that? Just Because a bass has 4 strings (yes i know it can have more) doesn't mean its easier to play than a guitar. I saw a guitarist play bass because he thought it would be easy. Quess what? He had no clue of how to play it. There also was a guitarist in my band who thought drumming is easy. I regretted letting him play my kit. I felt sorry for my kit afterwards. This was my little rant. Thanks for reading.
Have you tried to play a violin for 16 beats while crescendoing to fortissimo at 40 BPM on one bowing? I dont think its possible... Would be pretty easy on an organ though.
The violin is only hard IF -You don't appreciate it -You don't like it -You're not determined -You think that it is hard But really it's based on the person
I play the violin. Its hard in the beginning but you'll get used to it Its a bit like playing a video games. Once you get used to, say, WASD, then you just enhance your skills. WASD might help you in other games, like Tenor Cleff helps in both Violin and Piano.
everyone knows most people will just defend their instrument but what happens is most instruments come across different difficulties, some require more multitasking, others require dynamics, some require more accuracy, some have harder reportoire, etc etc there is no easy instrument, if you want to master it this said triangle is clearly the hardest
Kappa Nonamé Violin isn't automatic. It's actually quite hard, because you do have to put the fingers in the right place and it sounds horriable if it's slightly off.
@@mr.purple250 Piano is the easiest instrument to learn music on. The PIano opens your musical horizons for a very obvious reason, and that reason is that anyone can play any chord progression on a piano vs guitar. The piano can help you with drumming which I would argue is the most difficult instrument set to learn. People like to shit talk drummers, but there is a god damn good reason why its hard to find a drummer for a band, and its because they understand rhythm and dynamics better than any other form of an instrumentalist.
Agreed. As a bassoonist, the fact they didn't include my instrument was telling of the low-quality scripting in this video. This channel just pumps content out quickly.
The pipe organ is objectively harder than the piano. It has everything a piano has and much more. This video is just an insult to any pipe organ players out there.
i would say the piano is one of the most difficult instrument, becaus you can play pretty much everything on it a organ looks more difficult, than it is, because the keyboards are "extendet" the keyboard is not much bigger, than that on a piano and you cant play e.g. stakkato on a organ, because the is a little delay between push of the botton an the actual tone
In my opinion, the Organ is more difficult than the Piano. Yes on the Piano you haft to read 2 Steves but the Organ uses 3, 1 for the right hand, 1 for the left and 1 for the pedals. And than your hands haft to be more coordinated to make it sound clean and it’s harder to connect the note because of the pedals
i think its late, but no. I play the piano and its actually hard to control the notes to short from long. Yeah, you think organ is harder but the piano has pedals to. it has 3.,Sustain pedal for making longer notes, soft pedal to control the volume(to lower the volume to be exact) and the other one i dont know because it doesnt really get used. when you try to hit the keys and step on the pedals its really hard to make coordination. Check Lang Lang and how he plays, he steps on the sustain pedal continouosly and thats very hard to master you could step on the pedal in the wrong moment.
A lot of people plays piano but a very few actually knows how to play. If you talk about the "major" part then yes organ is indeed far more difficult but if you go into a higher level like revolutionary of chopin or even Lang Lang you'll see in my opinion than piano is harder to tame than the organ
What the hell was the logic with having the Piano on the number 5 and then having the pipe organ on the number 9? Pipe organ is way harder than piano, especially because you need both the eye-hand coordination as well as the feet coordination. On notes you have to look at 3 lines at once - one for right, one for left, one for feet. All of these instruments are learnable, you just have to put your mind into it and want to learn it. Make sure you have fun on the way!
I'd like to know their criteria for classification. I think there are piano pieces that need way more specific touch than organ pieces and are therefore harder, but generally I agree that piano is way easier than organ. Also getting started with organ is way harder than with piano.
To play the piano at concert standard is what makes it hard. Anyone can sit down at a piano work out a few keys and it sound good and makes it look easy. Piano doesn't truly get hard until Grade 8+
I can say as a drummer, it's not learning drums that's hard, it's learning songs. Some songs are really fast and difficult, but it all just takes practice and coordination. It is very tiring sometimes, though.
As a French Horn Player here's some issues 1. Smallest Mouthpiece of the brass family 2. Ridiculous amount of spit that comes down 3. it is impossible to play high pitches 4. you need to oil the instrument all the time 5. ridiculous how soft metals 6. having to be ask why you have to hold your hand on the horn
As a tuba player, here are some issues. 1. Lots of air and little breathing. 2. Your mouth has to be as big as a Mack Truck to hit those low notes, like a low F. 3. Certain high notes require all the oxygen in the world, and your lips have to be as tight as your mom. 4. A LOT of spit from blowing. 5. You have to have vibranium shoulders to carry it in a marching band. 6. It can be hard sometimes to switch amisheurs from very low notes to high notes without cracking,
let me tell you something EVERY INSTRUMENT IS HARD TO PLAY it depens on what is the hardest part of the instrument for example on the piano is hard controling both hands and the technique that you use and for the string instruments is hard to get the intonation right the fingures on the right place and holding the bow and the guitar as well intonation and the chords so if you wanna learn an instrument you need patience and confidence (sorry for my english I am italian) Edit: OMG THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES:)
I am surprised that the piano ranked higher (lower in number) is "harder" than the pipe organ since they both require the same technique except the pipe organ is added with foot control base. I would think Piano would rank 10 to the pipe organs 5
@Absolute Freedom The hard thing about the organ is that it's like a harpsichord. It is very dry sound, and it is much harder to hide mistakes than piano. And with organ, yeah, no volume control like piano (except for some of the big pedals in front of the regular pedalboard) but you must be extremely careful when playing anything, because it is too easy to make notes too short. Understanding the pipes you have and the organ you are working with is difficult as well, because certain combinations of ranks may not sound good together. Also, pedaling is complicated. However, piano is extremely hard to master in its own right. Some instruments are easier to start out with, but they are all hard to master.
LifeOnTheEdge Yea:) I personally love the piano but I also find the infinite pitches and vibrato of a violin very intimate and a way to be more connected with the music.
As a Bassoonist, I don't understand how the Bassoon isn't harder then the DRUMS?!?!??!?!?!? I mean, come on, the dexterity, lungs and Coordnation you have to have to play the Bassoon is incredible, and yet here we are sitting somewhere Below drums. Ya'll can even fact check me look up "what is the most difficult wind instrument to play in the symphony". IT'S THE BASSOON
@@alejandraobregon6431 sure but with basics, but once you go beyond that a) you have to pay for it b) it's very limited. I couldn't play songs with my left hand before and I still can't after
This list is a joke, they search on Google and make a video lol, guitar and piano are such a easy to learn, I don't Say to master it, but learn the Basic is so easy
With the exception of brass instruments (and probably some other I can't think of at the moment), every instrument is easy to start, meaning that it's quite easy to get _some_ sound from it (with brass you won't get anything reasonable just by blowing into the mouthpiece), but hard to master. Every single instrument has its own intricacies and quirks. There are also different levels of proficiency associated with typical/popular use (i.e. it's easy to be a rock bass player just strumming your eights unisono with the guitar and the typical parts for viola are not very breathtaking). But that's different than difficulty of the instrument on its own. OK, maybe the triangle or some cymbals which give you just one pitch are "easier" but even with the triangle you can modulate the tone and fiddle with damping and so on.
@@ligetimoment2524 That hard? Never had one or the other in my hands so I wouldn't know but the "reed" part suggests that you should make _some_ sound, unlike the brass ones.
@@SpadajSpadaj the reed has to vibrate at a certain amount to make a noise, and as a woodwind player (flute, clarinet and oboe) woodwind instruments are just like brass in the fact that you cant just pick it up and play, you have to blow a certain amount in a certain place (at least for flute) and as for oboes, i spent a lot of money on reeds cause they always used to break when i started off playing, woodwind is harder than brass, definitely
Myself, being a music nerd, have experience with about three instruments;Clarinet, Guitar, and Bass Guitar. I will say that my honest opinion is that not one instrument is harder to play or learn than the other. Each instrument has its own upsides and down sides in terms of difficulty and therefore level out to be about the same difficulty if you were just picking up an instrument.
I'm a clarinetist who used to play cornet and has had lesson for guitar and keyboard, and is trying to teach myself bass guitar, I agree with this on so many levels, and watching the video hurt me on so many levels.
I play bass sax, Bari sax, Tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, soprano clarinet, guitar, trumpet, piano, harmonica, flute, and ukulele and I’ve got to say I agree.
I play guitar piano and flute and the flute seems easiest to me. But then, when I came to the flute I could already sight read a bit and many motors skills were already there from piano and guitar. But those first two weeks on flute... trying to get a sound, any sound... that was hard.
I'm beginning to take French Horn lessons, and what I've been told many times and find essentially true is its easier if you become an experienced trumpet player beforehand.
Um the number one and two spots are actually true I know because one of my friends plays violin and she says it’s really hard and I play the French horn ( it’s actually pretty hard ) and I’ve been told by my French horn teacher herself that French horn is the second hardest instrument to learn and that violin is THE hardest. Also French horn ain’t that popular in my band the French horns just get the main beat of the song and that’s it.
French horn is the 2nd most popular instrument? First of all its not even french but that's another story. Also its hard as fuck. Have been playing for 12 years.
I play the violin, and cello. (Now learning both of them) and for me the cello is a bit harder because of the fret distance...(it is fettless btw) i'm well versed in the piano and drums...and for me i would put both i the same level of learning. The drums has 2 main techniques i know of and plenty geners to play for. The piano while the techniques mostly remains the same, unlike drums it has more ways to play. I also play the guitar...(the minimal basics) but even for me the hardest instrument to play would be my voice. While i have been singing for almost all my life i have not yet mastered the art. I have been a serious musician for about 8 years..ive played around with a couple of other instruments. And they all have their challenges
I would have said: 5. Voice 4. Percussion 3. Keyboards 2. Winds 1. Strings I mean... all of them, it depends of so many variables, that there's no winner or loser at the end.
Some instruments are easy to start so you can easily play a simple tune on Piano but then there is so much capability there that you can spend your lifetime on an instrument and never be satisfied which the amount you have mastered. No instrument is easy because there is always someone that can do better than you. I have been playing guitar as a hobby for 50 years and there are still a lot of stuff I have a though time with. It is like love, it looks simple at first then gets complicated.
doodle_comments Dont be fooled so easily. I have been playing piano for about 8 years now, and it's no piece of cake. You need to have fingers of steel and amazing hand-eye coordination. That's my explanation, at least.
TheMasterOfWow Yeah well that's an explanation for why playing/learning the piano is tough not for why it is ranked higher than the pipe organ. From the looks and from all I have heard from people who started with piano and switched to the pipe organ, it really just is a more difficult version of the piano.
Technically every instrument is hard to learn when starting a new instrument just time and practice to become good at it Edit: thanks for the likes guys I understand everybody is bias on my opinion but that's fine your all allowed to be bias on my comment nobody says you have to agree with me
TheTardis 52 wrong answer. For example, piano. At the begging It is hard, at the middle it depends on your skills and practice and at mastery level it is the hardest
Alexantron well i teach a 3rd grader to play piano all on her own and reading music is a big key to learning an instrument so it all depends on the person and their commitment :)
I feel like this is a list made by people who don't actually play any of these but kinda just assumed the difficulty. Because a lot of the stuff mentioned in the video didn't make musch sense.
Video title should be "Top 10 Instruments We Suppose It's Hard To Play Based On Our Research Because Appareantly No One At Watch Mojo Actually Plays Any Of These Or Has The Credibility To Say Anything About Them".
I’ve been playing the drums since I was 2 (and not banging on sofas) I got my first kit at 3 because my dad was in a band. And I play accordion because I’m Portuguese, Portuguese folk music has a lot of accordion so I liked it tried it out and loved it. I also play guitar because My dad taught me at a young age and guitar it simply a beautiful instrument. I also play piano, and you guessed it, my dad taught me and it is so fun. And I also played violin for 3 years then stopped because I stopped liking it. I also play MANY more instruments
I have been playing guitar for 30 years. There is no way in hell the pipe organ is easier than the guitar or the piano. Now then, I played violin for two years when I was a kid. I won’t argue that it’s the number one pain in the ass. Beautiful stuff though. You can really make it talk if you know what you’re doing.
That's not accurate. On the organ, you can absolutely be playing two different things in your hands and a third with the pedals. Actually, a lot of pieces have 3-4 parts in the hands (that means playing two distinct lines in each hand), plus a pedal part. Source: I play the organ
Yes, because memorizing and practice is not a thing, improvising is not a thing, playing out of despair (and memory) is not a thing, playing with feeling is not a thing either... We are MIDI playerssssssssssssssssssss all we do is follow music sheetsssssssssssss (Oh, my bad, it is not a music sheet, but a "Line of music" aff)
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I swear, these people use a dartboard for all their top 10's.
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Organ: has to play with your feet along with both hands and multiple levels of keys and has to sight read goes in #9
piano:you have to play with both hands and has to sight read and goes in #5
Piano is harder because of the Goldberg variations( mainly 14 and 5) and art of fugue(1-14)
Nacho Chess no, you are so wrong organ will always be harder, on piano you have 1 sort of sound on organ you need to combine stops to make a good sound and you have to play with your feet
@@magnuscarlsen8795 There are far harder pieces than the Goldberg variations. Liszt Rachmaninoff Alkan etc..
@@wouterattheorgan you have a lot more with the piano as well, you can't just play the correct keys and expect a good sound
Wtf guys. All instruments are hard in their own ways
Thanks WatchMojo, for using clips of my videos where I play really difficult harp music, to describe how easy it is to play the harp! Can confirm, all I need to do is sit down near the harp and wiggle my fingers, and *magic happens*, haha. Ps. we are literally all angels. All of us.
Woah, hi Amy
@@jayobsia4699 no? Shes not being sarcastic
oop he deleted his comment
Lol a goddes
I never thought someone (pro player of any instrument) could answer this dumb video 🤣
@@randomaccessmemories311 wut
this list was obviously not written from musicians
darkshadows119gaming if it was then the comments wouldn't be much different then they are now
OH PLEASE, tell us what are the hardest in your opinion.
oboe should have been number two and bassoon number one
darkshadows119gaming Violin is not the hardest instrument and trombone is hsrder than pkaying a firiking piano and pipe organ should be above piano
Daboss 889900 the French horn is one of the Most difficult instruments, probably the Most difficult brass
Should be Top 10 instruments WatchMojo has heard of
so true
So so so true
haha so true
In no particular order
yep
As someone who plays the organ and piano, organ is like rocket science compared to piano.
I only play piano guitar and recorder and I think it's obvious that the organ is way harder than most of the instruments that I play
I was gonna say, piano is one keyboard and 3 foot pedals... pipe organ is 3 or more keyboards, another full keyboard you play with your feet, and a wall of levers and knobs. Whoever made this list obviously just picked some random instruments out of a hat, lol.
Kragatar You’re pretty much need to know how to operate an organ before you learn how to plan
Play
Agree
“Top Ten Hardest instruments to play”
Number 1: violin
*Plays pop music*
people who actually play violin **Triggered noises**
It's not POP it's folk/country music. but I still agree...
I dont even play violin and i agree like a well known twosetter
I feel like they chose the wrong songs to represent all of them.
oh my god yes
They really should have used the same type of music for everything. Pop music definitely isn’t everything. (Classical music has been written for guitar…, Amazing Grace on bagpipes, saying nothing of Erlkonig for piano or violin and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue on organ)
As a musician, this was painful to watch
mhm
mikey mmmhmmm
Lol
Yes indeed
please tell us why ???? I am curious ^^
As a musician, this video was TORTURE.
I play 4 instruments so it was extra bad fjjdjdifkfjir
Same
Mhm
Are you sure your a musician cause I don’t seem to believe...
I play a bit too many instruments but not really and this was horrifying
As a musician this was horrifying to watch and wildly inaccurate
Do your list
Who actually thought that a pipe organ is easier than a piano?
BUT
YOU CLICKED !
You can’t say an instrument is added than another instrument. It’s just wrong. Every instrument is different in its own way. The organ looks way harder than for example the violin, but when you try it, their the same difficulty. You just have to focus on different things. The organ looks hard and it is, but playing 3 pianos jut on top of each other isn’t that hard compared to using one piano. Moving your hands a bit down or up isn’t to hard. The piano you use with your feet is harder, but mostly easy to feel and you don’t normally play complex pieces on the hand piano and foot piano at the same time. Keep in mind Im not saying pipe organ Is easy, I’m just saying it’s not extremely hard compared to other instruments. No instrument is easier than other. It’s just wrong to say this is harder than this.
@@bluelanterns2589 let me guess which video you came from
Me being a pianist. This angers me so much, literally I learn piano pieces and songs by MEMORIZING them and then playing them.
Agree, as a pianist
AND THE POP SONG THO, THEY COULD AT LEAST USED A LISZT VIDEO
Same.I learnt Fur Elise by watching a RUclips video with no notes.
AND WHY IS THE ONLY THINGS THEY ARE SHOWING IS STUPID POP SONGS??? AND I MEAN EVEN IF ITS THERE FOR A REASON, WHY IS THE ORGAN 5 PLACES UNDER IT????
I AGREE AS A PIANIST THAT HAS BEEN BETRAILED
oh my god, yeah. They were like "you have to read two lines of music at the same time" while showing someone playing without the music in front of them. I personally hate reading sheet music so I memorise them instead.
Me too, and same with the organ. Though, reading the notes at first takes practice, and will get better over time, regardless of age. Just have to keep learning different songs.
So you’re telling me it’s harder to play the guitar than that crazy church thing???
Pernille ;-; lol crazy church thing
Pernille ;-; Pipe organ.Not every organ is in a church.I have a organ in my house
Phong Nguyen did you house used to be a funeral home?
Wave Man Mike No I am actually just a kid who is VERY obsessed with musical instruments.
It’s a Cinema organ
The maker of this video just listed every instrument he knows in random order.
kiik rosperk basically describes all of their instrument related lists
Jajaja
So true
Ok. Firs of all, how many of you are musicians. Secondly, how many of you have played multiple instruments on this list. And third, your absolutely wrong. Now I’m not an expert on brass or woodwind, but I can tell you the harp, piano, pipe organ, and especially the violin deserve their spots on this list. Now I’m not amazing at the harp or Pipe organ, and I’m not the best at piano, but I am a professional violist, which is a very similar instrument to the violin, and I can tell you that it certainly deserves its place on number one.
Gd KnightGames shut up
So you don’t have to watch the whole thing:
10: Drums
9: Pipe Oregon
8: Accordion
7: Oboe
6: Guitar
5: Piano
4: Harp
3: Bagpipe
2: French Horn
1: Violin
Not saying I agree with the order, but that’s what it is :/
Thx
Violins not hard at all, neither is guitar, but, where is bass, Davie504 doesn't approve, not epico.
I like how they said that being one is tiring, like BI*CH PLEASE I PLAY THE BARITONE
Sierra St Pierre 😐
I'm not gonna lie French horn is hard but I rank it closer to oboe because they are rough to play
“You must use both hands while simultaneously sight reading lines of music.”
Chris Martin of Coldplay: “I can’t read music.”
also who the hell sight reads piano pieces for a performance? you learn the piece first
True
and almost every instrument requires both hands wtf
@@jadedjade584 Literally yeah
Every instrument takes a lot of time and skill to learn so please have respect for every kind of musicians.
Richard de munck I totally agree, it was EXTREMELY difficult to learn and took 4 years to do so, but I have finally become a professional triangle player.
Well i wish you the best with it lol
Well, any instrument that plays more than one note I guess.
And everyone still bashes on the harmonica players lol
Richard de munck its because incredibly easy to learn but hard to master
How tf would piano be harder than pipe organ, it’s literally just a more complicated piano
Maybe because controlling the force of your fingers is harder, since you directly hit the strings with the keys, compared to the organ, where you just move valves.
Though I have never played organ.
An electric organ has light keys And a real one has prettig heavy keys And pedals
How is an organ more difficult to play than a piano (except the pedals)?
Just because there is more keyboards it doesn’t mean that the pieces themself aren’t more complex.
No b/c the organ has all the buttons that all it just to is control the sound of the other keys. Also it can make u lazy at times b/c if u just want to change the sound all u have to do is pick another set of keys 🎹
You cannot convince me the piano is harder than a pipe organ. A pipe organ has 6+ more keyboards than a piano
I can play the piano, but an organ... NO.
Malick 2014 me too i learned piano in 14 weeks will ive been working on my $5k organ for 23 weeks now and i’m not nearly as good as on the piano
I think he was going backwards
My piano teacher plays both
I play both the piano and organ... and i guarantee u the piano is harder. Sure the organ has more keyboards but once u have learned that, the rest is izi
All my friends say that piano is really easy but they’ve only played a little. It’s easy when you first start but it’s hard when your level is higher.
Same with a lot of instruments
@@kirkswahpedal3467 true
True, but even if thats right, tell me why is the organ 5 places under it
@@kirkswahpedal3467 same with all instruments
yes same with all instruments, but no instrument gets harder repertoire than piano at the highest levels
not even violin with paganini, which is the closest
Being a fellow guitarist, the fact they say that all guitars are played the same pisses me off
Then two seconds later they say that there are many different ways to play it based on the genre.......
Fr, there's so many different techniques and nuances to every genre of guitar playing from classical, to flamenco, to jazz, to rock, to metal, etc. This entire video subverts all the true musicianship needed to play any of these instrumenta
*also calls a classical guitar an acoustic*
@@pusheenpandaa well... a classical guitar is acoustic. Theoretically, every instrument not amplified by electricity is an acoustic instrument. It's just a recent trend to classify a steel string solely as an acoustic. But enough about that!
This video triggers me AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@kpaenen its acoustic but it isnt an ACOUSTIC GUITAR. if you're labelling it as an acoustic guitar in that sense, a violin can be called an acoustic guitar. and we all know thats SACRELIGIOUS. haha but i get what you're saying.
5:01 "whilst simultaneously sight-reading"
Not true. Most pianists play without actually concentrating on sheet music. They play pieces from memory instead, which is far easier than sight-reading. The only time we need sheet music is when we are learning a piece.
@Not A Furry you shouldn't need to concentrate on the sheet music. It should already be in your muscle memory.
Organists read three lines of music, I wonder why that wasn't mentioned... Also you should be able to read music well enough that you don't need to practice everything into muscle memory to play it, and if you are playing by memory that's different
I never play with music not even in performances
Everything I perform I play from memory. Can't help it. You have to play it so many times to get to a performance level, you just naturally memorize it.
Playing pieces from memory require much practice. Easy pieces that are a page or two and relating at that except for a key change are easy. But going from that to ten page pieces has been difficult for me to memorize when I’m playing for the first week or so.
I said this on TwoSet's video and I'll say it again here:
*ALL INSTRUMENTS ARE DIFFICULT IN THEIR OWN WAY*
You're right. Nothing is easy, but it's worth it to learn it.
You are right, and another thing that matters about watchmojo being annoyingly stupid:
IF THE INSTRUMENTS BASICS ARE EASY TO LEARN, BUT ITS HARD TO MASTER IT, THEN
A. *ITS A HARD INSTRUMENT!!!*
B. *YOU CAN SAY THAT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!*
But nothing is harder than the triangle
@@magniloquenting.wlspoetjt1808 triangle?
If they think it’s hard to push air through a French horn they should try a tuba/sousaphone
My mom was a violin teacher, I know every standard piece for beginners by hard, because I had to listen to it all day during my childhood.I still wonder, what love for teaching she must have had, because sometimes it must have been really hard. Every other day she would come to my room during a lesson, sit down and say: "Guess, which piece it is." , because the student learned the piece so wrong at home :D
_"Do you agree with our picks?"_
*Everyone:* *_no!_*
(Literally happens in any watchmojo videos)
Im no music expert, but I have a feeling that the three layered piano thing is harder than a normal one
That's an organ. 😊
its not. most repertoire of organ is easier than the piano one, which have the hardest pieces from any instrument
thats why piano is technically easier than a piano with footwork (organ) at first. but as you go, it's the other way around
Just wait until they find out about the one at Boardwalk Hall.... 7 hand-manuals and one pedal board, a heckton of stops and I think 5 swell pedals.
@@Populous3Tutorials on the contrary, if you are learning them from scratch, its easier to learn piano before organ, as having that prior knowledge of how to play a single keyboard helps a lot with learning the organ. Additionally, many organ pieces require a lot more sight reading, and most organists are required to multitask like hell, looking at three staves of music, playing with both hands and feet, pressing buttons either both hands and feet (stops, generals and divisionals) and controlling swell pedals. And, if accompanying, the organist is required to look at the conductor. A pianist has to do a mere fraction of all this. That's my argument for why organ is way harder to learn than piano. I get what you mean, a lot of piano songs are very complicated, but most aren't as complicated as some organ pieces. Add tonal dissonance on top of that, because what organ composer doesn't like a bunch of that, and you have an extremely difficult piece to play, let alone learn.
ikr
This whole thing sounds like a last minute middle school report.
Lmao so true
“Just google 10 instruments and put them in random order, mark! The deadline is in 10 minutes, I don’t wanna be fired!”
No it’s a 1st grade report
XD BLESS you Squatch.
One of the best comments
I am a harpist and I can say that pedal harps are a pain. It requires a lot of coordination and I mean a lot! It's like losing your dominant hand and you have to rely on your other hand. Not to mention, keeping track of your feet and reading music at the same time. Like to see Piano and Trombone on this list, That is nothing compared to the difficulty of the harp. Harps are really expensive and require a lot of dedication to lessons which are also expensive. So, I can definitely say that harp is a really hard instrument.
Now try an instrument where your non-dominant hand must play exactly was well as your dominant hand, plus instead of just having a handful of pedals, you have 32 pedals spread across a pedalboard about 5' wide for you to play with your feet. Not to bash the harp, but can't compare to the organ.
Kazoo is obviously the hardest to play. Only one person knows how to play it, and it’s kazoo kid.
Why doesn't this comment have more likes
That One Musician Aka Andrew Maxwell and who is kazoo
Ayee 100th like
Jacksucksatlife
No It Is So EaSy
As a French Horn player, almost everything he said was incorrect af.
It would probably be even harder if it wasn't a spiral shape, because then you'd have to carry around a 13 foot long horn.
French Horn is def harder than a lof of other brass instruments though. Just not because of lung capacity.
Unbreakable ego to play 🤣
Better unbreak your ego
I know a lot of horn players who are fantastic and their ego is anything but unbreakable 😂, but I guess if you ever play wrong, do it with conviction lmao
How exactly is an organ easier to play than a piano?
Banbadle guitar looks more difficult than the piano (and i play the piano)
De Onzichtbare Daan guitar is incredibly easy, I promise! I would guarentee that it is easier than piano, but I've only played guitar.
It's not. WatchMojo is just being silly. I don't play piano well, but once I learned how the organ worked, I discovered my dream of maybe playing the organ someday was crushed and split into a million pieces.
organ should be first
Josh XMS Piano is fairly simple. Just separating between Bass and Melody is often difficult. And how easy it is to hit accidentals instead of regular notes, and Vice Versa.
Having large hands is both easy (because added reach) and hard (because the added coordination needed to move fingers correctly)
I play accordion and piano and in my opinion accordion is harder than piano, but it's not very hard. But organ definitely deserves the top 5 at least.
Every instrument is hard to master. If you don't practice, you won't improve, that's the only rule!
(Also piano harder than organ???)
Amen.
EtheRenard lol yeah and how could you include the oboe but not see the bassoon anywhere on the list
as a former piano player. Piano is much easier than a organ.
Yeah, like, piano is hard because you have to coordinate both your hands and read two staffs - what about playing with all your limbs and reading three staves? Also, the organ will never forgive you if your legato technique is not perfect.
The cello is easy to play
These picks are quite random...
Nils Treitler right? organ is 3x harder to play
Yes! Why should playing piano be harder xc? uff...
Barb McTrump no shit
Happy Abby pictures that's not true I play the drums and there very very easy
i've played the drums, piano and violin and I can assure that the drums is very easy compared with the violin!
Organ has:
-Up to 4 Keyboards
-More stops than you can count
-Pedal board
-2+ Pedal things I forgot the name of to control dynamics.
*_HOW IS IT ONLY NUMBER 9?!_*
Iggy30874 Ikr and we have to read up two four lines of music at a time!!
Daisy Stone not to mention that it is below piano
This is what happens when a company filled with inexperienced individuals makes a list of the "hardest" instruments. Someone in the comments previously said that 70% of the population plays guitar and/or piano.
Also, Watchmojo put this list WAY out of order. Another reason why this video is so bad.
Not all of us praise Jesus
Holy Knight - Organ isn’t exclusively Church music.
10) drums
9) pipe organ
8) accordion
7) oboe
6) guitar
5) piano
4) harp
3) bagpipes
2) French horn
1) violin
thanks, now i dont have to watch the video now
Honestly non musician that have no experience shouldn’t try or at all rank instruments
I agree
I tested a few and never would think about ranking
I will be totally wrong😂
I can say, the violin is the most harder instrument to play because I played flute and I play the piano, the violin is definitely hard to play
@@steaxinte hard yes, hardest no.
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That's just nonsense. Every instrument can be easy or hard to play, it just depends on which level you want to reach.
(Even the triangle is hard to master!!)
Maysha SeiBona is more of
Wich one instrument have you afinity
Maysha SeiBona so true! As a musician....
Wobbly lol yes
Maysha SeiBona
Ding ding.
Boom mastered the violin and cowbell.
Nick does Quad drumming
Whoa there buddy. Commenting on something I posted 2 years ago? Just to call me that over a joke?
twosetters say it's sacrilegious. LingLing does not approve this ranking except the ranking of violin.
T w o S e t
Antoinette Fragonard twosetter
Ling Ling insurance!!!
What if I play the Violin? 🎻
Ling Ling must respect guitarists and organist.
as someone who plays 11 instruments (flute, violin, saxophone, cello, french horn, tuba, baritone, guitar, piano, organ) i can tell you they got this fricked up!! flute, cello, and tuba are the hardest in my OPINION!!
As a piano player, learning the instrument is not hard at all. You can learn to play simple songs in a day's time. MASTERING it however, takes years.
Amy's Art that's easy. Tried playing some classical, jazz etc? Pop music often uses really simple chords so it's not hard to play those.
Correction. Mastering it takes lifetimes.
Tapering Ranger so true, ive been playing for nearly fifteen years and i certainly have not mastered it, and thats after god knows how many concerts, concertos, theory classes, master classes and what have you
Tapering Ranger Honestly, learning piano seemed like the easiest thing to do because it's so straightforward: you press the key and it makes the sound as opposed to woodwind instruments. But getting the right sound, dynamics and performance element in is what takes a lot to learn.
I totally agree, even though I’m a year late. I’ve been playing piano for about six years. It was easy to learn, but I’m not even close to mastering it yet. And a lot of people say “oh I can play piano, that’s easy” they’re wrong. They can press keys, sure, but I doubt they can read actual music and put in all the technique that makes it sound super amazing. I hate this actual video, but I love all of the things actual musicians are saying in the comments.
Twosetters will now increase the dislike
bottle 0' games and increase the likes on your comment
@@ILikeBirds aww thanks man
Phew...
Now I can sleep peacefully
Came here to do just that bruv!
Same, Lol only came here to dislike. :)
How is Piano higher then Organ, when Organ is literally just a Piano but wind based, has stop buttons, and a crap ton extra keys for your hands and feet.
As a classical pianist, the organ appears much more difficult lol.
Because Liszt, Rachmaninov, and Chopin exist.
Because repertoure
Exactly
*When i see organ* o.o what that foot for and the spare key
As a piano player, I believe the piano is one of those instruments. Easy to pick up, but hard to master. The organ is both hard to pick up and master. So why in the HELL is piano higher than the pipe organ? Well no, its placement makes sense. What i meant to say was: *WHY THE HELL IS THE PIPE ORGAN SO LOW ON THE DAMN LIST!??*
Let's be honest, the hardest instrument to play is-
*_The triangle_*
No the clap is
But do you Kazoo
The mayonnaise
What technique!
No the breath is
I play the violin, but how is cello not on there? Or double bass?
Thankyou i play violin
Thank you! I am a cellist but it really is not that hard
I play violin and bass guitar... I am trying to learn the banjo
I guess any instrument is hard during the first couple of weeks, i picked up on bass guitar pretty easily when i was 10-11years old.. If you take the time and effort to learn and instrument... Some day it will appear to you as easy..
Im level 5 in violin and i love the melody parts we get to play 😛😛
Im 13 now btw😐😐
Im a girl too if you hadnt already figured... Bye
I guess because the margin of error on a violin is smaller, since the instrument is smaller.
Plus, they tend to play the more interesting (and harder) parts.
Violins usually have the hardest parts in an orchestra. And they have to control the E string which is the most difficult string in the orchestra
Ling Ling is ashamed to see the existence of this video.
IKR
Yup we all should be practicing
Etorna_Z [David] Ling ling shouldn’t be wasting his time watching dumbmojo, instead he should practice 40 hours a day
@@Ok-ov2ul Ling Ling can do both at the same time because to him, practicing is like breathing.
He is more ashamed by the fact that we are watching this over practicing
As someone who has played the flute for 29 years, trust me when I say it is one of the hardest to learn and to play in general.
Same here. Hard to even get any tone out of it at all. After I set it down for a time, it takes awhile to get my lip back in shape.
Thank you for defending our instrument! I was surprised not to find it in this video...
I have not played flute but I play tuba and trumpet it I can support you on how your one of the only woodwinds that actually have to change there face for every note. (And I've heard flute requires a lot of air like tuba and other brass)
I play organ, so pretty much a bunch of lil flutes and trumpets and all sorts, does that count lol
@@secondmover7546 I've been playing the flute for three years now (I recognize I'm no expert) but I had a really pleasant experience with the instrument.
Trumpet on the other side... I "forced" myself a whole year to learn it and it was chaos, the hardest instrument I've tried. Even today I panic remembering the experience.
Musician rant, here we go!
I *REALLY* don't like these kinds of videos, for many reasons. This 'hardest instrument to learn' bullcrap really doesn't explain the reasons behind each selection, or at least not enough.
Wanna hear the truth about which instrument is the hardest to play? I'll tell you:
It really DOESN'T MATTER! It's like saying the the recorder is a child-like instrument and is easy. Do you think that? if so, You're *WRONG* . Recorder has over 900 years of repertoire, and can be played professionally. Is it easy to play? NO! Of course not! Every single instruments have things that may be easy on some instruments but difficult on others. It's like Tuba vs. Euphonium. The tuba specializes in it's lower range because it's literally MANUFACTURED to have the ability to play lower than other instruments. The euphonium is very similar to the tuba, it is conical, it can have 3 or more valves, but is usually pitched an octave higher than a BBb tuba. Although it's purpose _is_ to play low, due to it's smaller bore size and length it is able to play higher.
Do you know why harmonics are much closer together on horn than other brass instruments? It's length and bore size. A normal single-horn in F is about 18 feet, the same length of an F tuba. The reason that it isn't an actual bass tuba is because it has a very small bore size, and uses a _significantly_ smaller mouthpiece. This causes two things;
It affects the horn's ability to play lower, and the small mouthpiece size causes a smaller embouchure and causes the instrument, again, to be higher in pitch. If you are an experienced musician you would know that the higher up in the harmonic series, the smaller the intervals between notes. This makes it easier to miss notes. That is one reason the horn in F is a difficult instrument.
Acoustic string instruments like violin, viola, cello, and double bass don't have frets which gives them the ability to change the intonation of a note by thousands of a semitone. This effects the ability to play in tune, which is one of the difficulties of playing one of those instruments. The same is true to trombones, as they are literally a GIANT tuning.
All said and done, each instruments have their own things that make them difficult.
Also stereotypes. As a tuba player I get a lot of people, even people in my band, saying stuff like how tuba is easy and isn't hard because we don't play the melody. But guess what? Have THEY ever played tuba? Have THEY ever tried to hold a high note for 17 beats while crescendoing to fortissimo at 40 BPM with an instrument that needs major air support? Probably not! Maybe, but probably not! Any stereotypes on instruments are usually fake.
PLus the way they said LEARN not PLAY is confusing, because all instruments are hard to learn.
I also did this on the "Top Ten Coolest Instruments" cause every instrument is cool in their own way.
If you're reading this, you made it through my rant! Thanks!
This touched my heart. Thank you.
Doge Music Productions Great rant! I (as a drummer) am tired of people saying that playing drums or bass is easy. Why would anyone think that? Just Because a bass has 4 strings (yes i know it can have more) doesn't mean its easier to play than a guitar. I saw a guitarist play bass because he thought it would be easy. Quess what? He had no clue of how to play it. There also was a guitarist in my band who thought drumming is easy. I regretted letting him play my kit. I felt sorry for my kit afterwards.
This was my little rant. Thanks for reading.
ThePlanemadness I play bass too, and it's so much harder than people think!
Doge Music Productions as a tuba player I appreciate this
Have you tried to play a violin for 16 beats while crescendoing to fortissimo at 40 BPM on one bowing? I dont think its possible... Would be pretty easy on an organ though.
Obviously , whoever made that list has never played any of these instruments.
True.
Big YES
Yes indeedy
lol pronounces "orchestra" wrong, then continues a video all about the hardest instruments
zzzut ikr
I’m a percussionist and it’s really not to hard
nah we all know that mayonnaise is the hardest instrument to play
Holly shit is that from spongebob. When patrick asked does mayonnaise counts as an instrument
@@Uranium12345 exactly mate
Agree. I can strum ukulele just fine but mAyOnNaIsE?
Tru
I'm a professional mayonnist
Inside dumbmojo HQ:
“Just google 10 instruments and put them in random order, mark, the deadline is in 20 minutes, I don’t want to get fired!”
The violin is only hard IF
-You don't appreciate it
-You don't like it
-You're not determined
-You think that it is hard
But really it's based on the person
John Tristan Teologo I was really determined to play and I liked it a lot I still sucked
I play the violin. Its hard in the beginning but you'll get used to it
Its a bit like playing a video games. Once you get used to, say, WASD, then you just enhance your skills. WASD might help you in other games, like Tenor Cleff helps in both Violin and Piano.
I play all the violin and viola cello bass and guitar, its really just dedication and time
I don't like violin but it sounds really hard
John Tristan Teologo I agree
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Yes
Boah From State Farm no Patrick
Yes
Boah From State Farm no it ain’t it’s food but It is a meme
Yes
everyone knows most people will just defend their instrument
but what happens is most instruments come across different difficulties, some require more multitasking, others require dynamics, some require more accuracy, some have harder reportoire, etc etc there is no easy instrument, if you want to master it
this said triangle is clearly the hardest
Populous3 Tutorials piano guitar and violin lol, this list is a joke, automatic instruments aren't that challenging.
Kappa Nonamé Violin isn't automatic. It's actually quite hard, because you do have to put the fingers in the right place and it sounds horriable if it's slightly off.
Populous3 Tutorials actually the accordion is more easy that organ
Why should anyone defend their instrument in this case? 'Hardest to learn' is not something that makes an instrument 'good' or 'bad'.
But I know guitar is harder than piano because I play both and one is clearly harder than the other
I play guitar, violin, clarinet, oboe and flute. And this video has is facts messed up
Kaylee Puterbaugh I play guitar and clarinet and I can tell you piano isn’t that hard lmao
@@mr.purple250 Piano is the easiest instrument to learn music on. The PIano opens your musical horizons for a very obvious reason, and that reason is that anyone can play any chord progression on a piano vs guitar. The piano can help you with drumming which I would argue is the most difficult instrument set to learn. People like to shit talk drummers, but there is a god damn good reason why its hard to find a drummer for a band, and its because they understand rhythm and dynamics better than any other form of an instrumentalist.
@@Southboundpachyderm I agree 😅😁
Agreed. As a bassoonist, the fact they didn't include my instrument was telling of the low-quality scripting in this video. This channel just pumps content out quickly.
@@mr.purple250 "piano isn’t that hard"? guitar is way easier, mate.
Ling Ling could play all of them with his eyes closed and not feeling any difficulty
Ling ling has 40 hours of practice a day soo yeah 😂
TwoSet-
They got badly roasted for their recorder skills by professionals.... very badly.. :-D
Himanshu Mehra that’s not Ling Ling-
Well at least they said one thing true
Violin is the hardest
Violins are the superior instruments
Sacrilegious organ
The pipe organ is objectively harder than the piano. It has everything a piano has and much more. This video is just an insult to any pipe organ players out there.
it's an insult to all true mucisians out there
It`s an insult to me and I only play the piano...unfortunately never played an organ, but it`s obvious it`s much harder
The viola is literally a violin that his heavier and is inherently harder to make a good sound with.
It is
i would say the piano is one of the most difficult instrument, becaus you can play pretty much everything on it
a organ looks more difficult, than it is, because the keyboards are "extendet" the keyboard is not much bigger, than that on a piano
and you cant play e.g. stakkato on a organ, because the is a little delay between push of the botton an the actual tone
Lesson learnt: Playing music is not for the faint hearted, but passionate and determined individuals.
In my opinion, the Organ is more difficult than the Piano. Yes on the Piano you haft to read 2 Steves but the Organ uses 3, 1 for the right hand, 1 for the left and 1 for the pedals. And than your hands haft to be more coordinated to make it sound clean and it’s harder to connect the note because of the pedals
In my opinion I think tuba is harder than the organ
Renz Needs A Life I didn’t say the Organ is the hardest instrument. I just said it’s harder than Piano. I honestly agree with you
SK9 Just because a specific piece is insanely difficult doesn’t mean the actual instrument is harder
i think its late, but no. I play the piano and its actually hard to control the notes to short from long. Yeah, you think organ is harder but the piano has pedals to. it has 3.,Sustain pedal for making longer notes, soft pedal to control the volume(to lower the volume to be exact) and the other one i dont know because it doesnt really get used. when you try to hit the keys and step on the pedals its really hard to make coordination. Check Lang Lang and how he plays, he steps on the sustain pedal continouosly and thats very hard to master you could step on the pedal in the wrong moment.
A lot of people plays piano but a very few actually knows how to play.
If you talk about the "major" part then yes organ is indeed far more difficult but if you go into a higher level like revolutionary of chopin or even Lang Lang you'll see in my opinion than piano is harder to tame than the organ
What the hell was the logic with having the Piano on the number 5 and then having the pipe organ on the number 9? Pipe organ is way harder than piano, especially because you need both the eye-hand coordination as well as the feet coordination. On notes you have to look at 3 lines at once - one for right, one for left, one for feet.
All of these instruments are learnable, you just have to put your mind into it and want to learn it.
Make sure you have fun on the way!
I'd like to know their criteria for classification. I think there are piano pieces that need way more specific touch than organ pieces and are therefore harder, but generally I agree that piano is way easier than organ. Also getting started with organ is way harder than with piano.
Organ is way harder than piano. You're right.
yeah true piano is definitely not as easy as people try to make it out to be but yeah why tf is it higher than pipe organ lmaoo
Iam Vikk piano is one of the easiest tbh
To play the piano at concert standard is what makes it hard. Anyone can sit down at a piano work out a few keys and it sound good and makes it look easy. Piano doesn't truly get hard until Grade 8+
I can say as a drummer, it's not learning drums that's hard, it's learning songs. Some songs are really fast and difficult, but it all just takes practice and coordination. It is very tiring sometimes, though.
Nina Petravicius,yeah,thats what i was trying to say as a drumer too😅😅😅,its about the song because drums is all about tempo and beat😏😏😏👍👍👍
Nina Petravicius Dragonforce songs are very hard for drummers
Who is your favourite drummer?
kamesh maruvada Ringo Starr is pretty cool, but I don’t really have a favorite.
Nina Petravicius I could only imagine (no sarcasm intended [ now that I say that it makes it seem more ] at all )
As a French Horn Player here's some issues
1. Smallest Mouthpiece of the brass family
2. Ridiculous amount of spit that comes down
3. it is impossible to play high pitches
4. you need to oil the instrument all the time
5. ridiculous how soft metals
6. having to be ask why you have to hold your hand on the horn
Im learning how to play the teunpet and i hopw it isnt hard
As a tuba player, here are some issues.
1. Lots of air and little breathing.
2. Your mouth has to be as big as a Mack Truck to hit those low notes, like a low F.
3. Certain high notes require all the oxygen in the world, and your lips have to be as tight as your mom.
4. A LOT of spit from blowing.
5. You have to have vibranium shoulders to carry it in a marching band.
6. It can be hard sometimes to switch amisheurs from very low notes to high notes without cracking,
let me tell you something EVERY INSTRUMENT IS HARD TO PLAY it depens on what is the hardest part of the instrument for example on the piano is hard controling both hands and the technique that you use and for the string instruments is hard to get the intonation right the fingures on the right place and holding the bow and the guitar as well intonation and the chords so if you wanna learn an instrument you need patience and confidence (sorry for my english I am italian)
Edit: OMG THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES:)
I agree with you :)
+Happy Cat thank you you get what I'm saying ☺ if it was easy to play an instrument every onewould learn in a second
Cello is so hard XD
true
Must be hard communicating when we can't see your hands huh
I am surprised that the piano ranked higher (lower in number) is "harder" than the pipe organ since they both require the same technique except the pipe organ is added with foot control base. I would think Piano would rank 10 to the pipe organs 5
Absolute Freedom thats easy to control
@Absolute Freedom The hard thing about the organ is that it's like a harpsichord. It is very dry sound, and it is much harder to hide mistakes than piano. And with organ, yeah, no volume control like piano (except for some of the big pedals in front of the regular pedalboard) but you must be extremely careful when playing anything, because it is too easy to make notes too short. Understanding the pipes you have and the organ you are working with is difficult as well, because certain combinations of ranks may not sound good together. Also, pedaling is complicated.
However, piano is extremely hard to master in its own right. Some instruments are easier to start out with, but they are all hard to master.
Lucas Boi
Not at all, speaking from experience.
@@zain4019 Yeah, it's not easy. Both organ and piano are difficult in their own rights and ways.
LifeOnTheEdge
Yea:) I personally love the piano but I also find the infinite pitches and vibrato of a violin very intimate and a way to be more connected with the music.
Watch Mojo presents: 10 random instruments most people have heard of in no particular order
Anon ymous yup lol
Except for the Theremin...which receives an honorable mention.
Also, if you want something truly difficult to learn, there's the Glass Harp.
Haha yep
I don’t play the oboe, but I can tell you it’s pretty damn hard to play
Lol
Theremin players like:
Yeah, we dont need to even touch our instruments, EZ AF
The name of the video should have been: "Top 10 Hardest Instruments to Master"
Wombatti or 10 random instruments that came to his head while making the vid
True
It would still have been wrong lol.
They should rename this video to “top 10 instruments that I know nothing about”
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Y'all know what's harder?
Watchmojo thinking of ideas
As a Bassoonist, I don't understand how the Bassoon isn't harder then the DRUMS?!?!??!?!?!? I mean, come on, the dexterity, lungs and Coordnation you have to have to play the Bassoon is incredible, and yet here we are sitting somewhere Below drums. Ya'll can even fact check me look up "what is the most difficult wind instrument to play in the symphony". IT'S THE BASSOON
Exactly
As someone who plays piano, I can say the organ is A LOT harder.
Jorden Alex Abplanalp i play piano, HOW DO U PLAY A PIPE ORGAN thats like 4 pianos
Catalliah jesus christ you dont need a hand for EACH piano you just switch places
abner Cruz Yes you need four hands to play.
I think it should be first
But do you play the pipe organ
WatchMojo: "Piano is one of the hardest instruments out there"
SimplyPiano: *Im about to ruin this mans whole career*
Rofl
Piano is one of the only instruments I can play, so you know it's among the easiest to learn, not the hardest.
Simply piano doesn't help
Bavishan Sritharan i learned with simply piano
@@alejandraobregon6431 sure but with basics, but once you go beyond that a) you have to pay for it b) it's very limited. I couldn't play songs with my left hand before and I still can't after
Why Is A Guitar Harder Than Pipe Organ Lol XD
Hikigaya Hachiman simple: its not.
why is piano
Hikigaya Hachiman It really hurts
@Tarasu gay ? Since when is metal gay ? Fool
This list is a joke, they search on Google and make a video lol, guitar and piano are such a easy to learn, I don't Say to master it, but learn the Basic is so easy
With the exception of brass instruments (and probably some other I can't think of at the moment), every instrument is easy to start, meaning that it's quite easy to get _some_ sound from it (with brass you won't get anything reasonable just by blowing into the mouthpiece), but hard to master. Every single instrument has its own intricacies and quirks. There are also different levels of proficiency associated with typical/popular use (i.e. it's easy to be a rock bass player just strumming your eights unisono with the guitar and the typical parts for viola are not very breathtaking). But that's different than difficulty of the instrument on its own. OK, maybe the triangle or some cymbals which give you just one pitch are "easier" but even with the triangle you can modulate the tone and fiddle with damping and so on.
You won't get any sound out of a flute unless you know the secret lip configuration,
Honestly most people would break oboe and bassoon reeds before they make a sound
@@ligetimoment2524 That hard? Never had one or the other in my hands so I wouldn't know but the "reed" part suggests that you should make _some_ sound, unlike the brass ones.
@@SpadajSpadaj the reed has to vibrate at a certain amount to make a noise, and as a woodwind player (flute, clarinet and oboe) woodwind instruments are just like brass in the fact that you cant just pick it up and play, you have to blow a certain amount in a certain place (at least for flute) and as for oboes, i spent a lot of money on reeds cause they always used to break when i started off playing, woodwind is harder than brass, definitely
@@arandomname8774 Now you make me just want to try some woodwind. Unfortunately, none of my frienss has one.
I really feel stupider each time I watch one of these videos.
sfscstube same here
actually same lol
Learn to play an instrument in this video (Like me, I play the oboe) and you will feel like an accomplishment
U.r
it shows in your grammar
Ling Ling can play all these instruments
From 2 set violin
TwoSetViolin
At the same time*
Oh yes
Ling ling
Myself, being a music nerd, have experience with about three instruments;Clarinet, Guitar, and Bass Guitar. I will say that my honest opinion is that not one instrument is harder to play or learn than the other. Each instrument has its own upsides and down sides in terms of difficulty and therefore level out to be about the same difficulty if you were just picking up an instrument.
I'm a clarinetist who used to play cornet and has had lesson for guitar and keyboard, and is trying to teach myself bass guitar, I agree with this on so many levels, and watching the video hurt me on so many levels.
Im learning guitar and im pretty sure violin must be harder to learn or master because there's no fret and you need a bow.
I play bass sax, Bari sax, Tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, soprano clarinet, guitar, trumpet, piano, harmonica, flute, and ukulele and I’ve got to say I agree.
I play guitar piano and flute and the flute seems easiest to me. But then, when I came to the flute I could already sight read a bit and many motors skills were already there from piano and guitar. But those first two weeks on flute... trying to get a sound, any sound... that was hard.
I'm beginning to take French Horn lessons, and what I've been told many times and find essentially true is its easier if you become an experienced trumpet player beforehand.
This is Top 10 most popular instruments , not Top 10 hardest
Um the number one and two spots are actually true I know because one of my friends plays violin and she says it’s really hard and I play the French horn ( it’s actually pretty hard ) and I’ve been told by my French horn teacher herself that French horn is the second hardest instrument to learn and that violin is THE hardest. Also French horn ain’t that popular in my band the French horns just get the main beat of the song and that’s it.
I play the violin and it’s hard
French horn is the 2nd most popular instrument? First of all its not even french but that's another story. Also its hard as fuck. Have been playing for 12 years.
french horn is hard tho, it's hard to play a long note
I play the violin, and cello. (Now learning both of them) and for me the cello is a bit harder because of the fret distance...(it is fettless btw) i'm well versed in the piano and drums...and for me i would put both i the same level of learning. The drums has 2 main techniques i know of and plenty geners to play for. The piano while the techniques mostly remains the same, unlike drums it has more ways to play. I also play the guitar...(the minimal basics) but even for me the hardest instrument to play would be my voice. While i have been singing for almost all my life i have not yet mastered the art. I have been a serious musician for about 8 years..ive played around with a couple of other instruments. And they all have their challenges
I would have said:
5. Voice
4. Percussion
3. Keyboards
2. Winds
1. Strings
I mean... all of them, it depends of so many variables, that there's no winner or loser at the end.
Voice is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy
@@brycesusong6307 can u teach me? im bad at singing
@@matthewzigrang fuck metal scream and fuck you
Isn't keyboard an electrical piano?
No?
Btw not hating😂
@@matthewzigrang I actually listen to bluegrass, a genre which teaches how to love life, not how to cut one's own wrists buddy
*The triangle is undoubtably the hardest instrument to play*
There... I said it!
Rashy Doxx what about mayonnaise?
Braeden Bonds horse radish is pretty difficult
Leader237 true true
Funny thing is, it is hard to play...
if you're deaf
Well, getting a sound out of it is easy, but actually playing it in a professional environment? Harder than anyone would think.....
Some instruments are easy to start so you can easily play a simple tune on Piano but then there is so much capability there that you can spend your lifetime on an instrument and never be satisfied which the amount you have mastered. No instrument is easy because there is always someone that can do better than you. I have been playing guitar as a hobby for 50 years and there are still a lot of stuff I have a though time with. It is like love, it looks simple at first then gets complicated.
"Guitar is pretty much played the same way"
Shows Hendrix, Abasi, and a classical player.
*do you realize you proved yourself wrong*
RIGHT??? Smh
Can someone explain to me why the piano is ranked higher than the pipe organ?
doodle_comments Dont be fooled so easily. I have been playing piano for about 8 years now, and it's no piece of cake. You need to have fingers of steel and amazing hand-eye coordination. That's my explanation, at least.
TheMasterOfWow Yeah well that's an explanation for why playing/learning the piano is tough not for why it is ranked higher than the pipe organ. From the looks and from all I have heard from people who started with piano and switched to the pipe organ, it really just is a more difficult version of the piano.
That's a good one, or harmonic church bells. Why are they not included?
I know right I play both and the organ is definitely harder
Same thought
the hardest instrument i ever played in my life and mastered, WAS the triangle
Yes you have to remember all of the sounds on all the parts by... Oh wait that was a joke. Now I look like a nerd.
this was actually true for my sister
..i’m not joking
Na, it’s the wood block
Haha😂
Triangle is actually not that easy buddy 😂 you probably don't even know how to play or hold it 😂
GUYS STOP COMMENTING BAD THINGS ABOUT THEM!!
I Cant stop liking them all
*sputters at guitar being harder than organ AND I PLAY GUITAR*
Same
and that electric and acoustic are *BaSicAllY* the same thing, right?
JonasDatBoi ScUSe mE MAte
@@jonasdatboi9136 that pisses me off so fucking much lol. People are so damn ignorant.
Same
When 90% of the video is too questionable that twoset has to make a vid about it.....
Pfft hello fellow Ling Ling wannabe
they did
When you can roast slowly, you can roast quickly
Yuqing Cao so that’s why I post this comment after twoset uploads the videos for 12 minutes.
Edit:just change after to for
90% because the only instrument rated correctly is french horn
Technically every instrument is hard to learn when starting a new instrument just time and practice to become good at it
Edit: thanks for the likes guys I understand everybody is bias on my opinion but that's fine your all allowed to be bias on my comment nobody says you have to agree with me
TheTardis 52 wrong answer. For example, piano. At the begging It is hard, at the middle it depends on your skills and practice and at mastery level it is the hardest
TheTardis 52 I disagree, with drums you have to be proficient in practice, and with long breaks you’ll never make any progress....
Alexantron well i teach a 3rd grader to play piano all on her own and reading music is a big key to learning an instrument so it all depends on the person and their commitment :)
Adrian Gonzalez well I wouldn’t say learning an instrument, I’d say some instruments, such as drums, which I play, sheet music is almost unneeded
AM-PM Cuber just not all instruments
I feel like this is a list made by people who don't actually play any of these but kinda just assumed the difficulty. Because a lot of the stuff mentioned in the video didn't make musch sense.
Yea
The oboe one is alright
The only hard part is the double reed and it's basically a small clarinet
The French horn not nearly worth the number 2 spot
I don't underused why they put organ before piano. An organ has to everything pianos do, except on a much larger scale.
Bearded Dragon Sir the first place did though. Just wondering do you play an instrument and if so which one I just want to know no hate!!
The Random i play violin and a bit of piano
"10 instruments we have no idea of"
you have to be beyond stupid to say a pipe organ is easier than all the instruments on that list, especially when piano is one of them.
Your Dad Shut up, dad.
Video title should be "Top 10 Instruments We Suppose It's Hard To Play Based On Our Research Because Appareantly No One At Watch Mojo Actually Plays Any Of These Or Has The Credibility To Say Anything About Them".
Davi Rodrigues good
Davi Rodrigues
Ikr?
Quite right.
I’ve been playing the drums since I was 2 (and not banging on sofas) I got my first kit at 3 because my dad was in a band. And I play accordion because I’m Portuguese, Portuguese folk music has a lot of accordion so I liked it tried it out and loved it. I also play guitar because My dad taught me at a young age and guitar it simply a beautiful instrument. I also play piano, and you guessed it, my dad taught me and it is so fun. And I also played violin for 3 years then stopped because I stopped liking it. I also play MANY more instruments
who? who asked
Anybody can play a instrument but are you good
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I feel specifically pointed out LMAO
@@botttttle and phrase the comments
I’m not a like beggar lol
? it's their video so everyone would be from twoset
I know how to play the hardest instrument! The Air Guitar.
Yes I also think so 😂😂😂😂
Dude i should have the world record for largest air guitar collection
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I have been playing guitar for 30 years. There is no way in hell the pipe organ is easier than the guitar or the piano. Now then, I played violin for two years when I was a kid. I won’t argue that it’s the number one pain in the ass. Beautiful stuff though. You can really make it talk if you know what you’re doing.
So you’re telling me that a organ is easier than a piano? It’s a freaking triple piano!!!
Yeah but you’re not playing two completely different things with two hands on the organ
PierceDun you can play 4 melodies with an organ 2 in the hands 2 in the feet dude
That's not accurate. On the organ, you can absolutely be playing two different things in your hands and a third with the pedals. Actually, a lot of pieces have 3-4 parts in the hands (that means playing two distinct lines in each hand), plus a pedal part. Source: I play the organ
msguineapigsrus No you dont :)
RandomSubject I'm confused. I don't what? Play the organ? Because I absolutely do.
4:59 “while simultaneously sight reading lines of music” shows a pianist playing without any sheet music, *which is normally what happens*
yup
You have to read music and play with every instrument unless you have the song memorized dumbmojo is dumb
Does pedals not exist anymore?
I dont read music but i play.
Yes, because memorizing and practice is not a thing, improvising is not a thing, playing out of despair (and memory) is not a thing, playing with feeling is not a thing either... We are MIDI playerssssssssssssssssssss all we do is follow music sheetsssssssssssss (Oh, my bad, it is not a music sheet, but a "Line of music" aff)