as a cello player i was so dumbfounded at the level of stupidity in this list, it looks like the makers of it just googled instrument and picked the first ones they saw
Agreee.. holding flute make a 90degrees ( almost i think) , lead the lip on the right position, breathing technique, fingering chart. I almost dropped my fluite while doing C 😅
I think piano is the hardest because as a pianist, we have to keep track of all 88 keys at once to make sure they dont run away. Its like playing 88 instruments times ten because each finger has to watch each key.
I've been trying to relearn the piano and i'll admit it's been hard but that's because of my declining attention span that makes me not want to commit to learning not cause it's a hard instrument. But yeah piano was the first instrument I learned to play for a reason, in my opinion it's a good beginner instrument. If you can learn it you can learn any instrument in my opinon.
Number 0: The Triangle While looking simple at first, the Triangle is difficult to learn. While playing the triangle, not only do you have to have to hold it up, but you have to keep the whole band in time. It's really like playing 6 instruments at once. You have to use one hand to hold it up, one had to use the stick to make the sound, you have to use your eyes to read the music, you have to use your legs to stand up, you have to use your nose to breath, and you have to use your brain to do everything else. Only true masters can play such a difficult instrument.
I also like that it's the only instrument om the list where you "have to sight read". Because all those other instruments on the list always just go by grove, with no written music behind it.
Interesting. I play both and find the piano to be much harder in the end, due to the dynamics in playing being a lot more complex. Like, it's harder to get to a base level where you have sufficient control over all aspects of the instrument on the organ. But to get from there to real class, the phrasing, the taste in nuance... This is where the piano pretty much runs away with it IMO.
Number 0: Kazoo. Even though this plastic instrument may seem like a toddler’s toy, this instrument requires a tremendous amount of skill and proficiency. You have to use one hand to place the kazoo in your mouth, and use the other hand to hold the kazoo in place. You also have to get your respiratory system working together (totally forgetting the idea of breathing) to let the air flow into the kazoo. It takes several years of training to be able to produce a decent sound while also using your own two feet to stand up while playing. This instrument needs tons of coordination to be able to play it. You also need to hum a tune into the kazoo in order to produce a melody, which is already a daunting task including learning the proper position of the kazoo, music theory, and also *paying your own money* to buy the instrument.
the triangle: this instrument takes years of mastery to produce the perfect set of vibrations, whilst requiring a set of hands capable of holding the instrument itself in a position that is capable of producing these long lasting vibrations, while the other hand has to have the capability of hitting the instrument with a miniscule metal bar at the perfect angle and at a preferable velocity of around who knows what i never played it, making it 2 instruments that require a high sense of precision, coordination, positioning, and endurance by having to stand up in some occasions. any disturbance while playing this could shatter the player's focus, possibly messing him up and playing an ear breaking ding.
Imo it makes sense because piano repertoire is way harder since we had Liszt and Rachmaninoff running around seeing how hard they cold possibly make a piece.
This is like that snobby kid in high school who doesn't know anything about music, but still insists on using music terminology to sound smart. "Dude, that piece sounds so sharp. I wonder how they do those double stops on piano?"
Exactly. This narrator tries to use big words to sound smart, but it’s clear he doesn’t understand what they actually mean, evidenced by his use of the words in explanations that don’t make sense and aren’t accurate
@@lperseusl Umm, are you referring to Twoset? Twoset isn't toxic at all. Their sense of humor is full of satire and irony, so sometimes they pretend to be overly prideful as a *joke.* Although I sometimes think too many of their jokes revolve around making fun of other instruments, it's still very obvious that they aren't being serious. Like when they talk crap about violas, it's all a joke and in good fun.... They don't *actually* hate violas.
And they showed the absolute worst example they could have found, because Glenn Gould has never been seen with sheet music on his piano. There's a video of him recording the Goldberg Variations for a record and he's just playing the whole thing like in a live concert. Probably didn't even bring the sheet music with him to the studio.
DumbMojo: "French horn requires great lung capacity because of its twisted structure" Tuba that literally is about 9.6 meters of twisted tubing: Am I a hole to you?
I know it's meant to be a joke but fun fact, french horns and tubas have equal length of tubing. Double french horns are even a bit longer. I'd say the reason why the french horn is so hard to play is because its tubing is extremely conical : its mouthpiece is smaller than the trumpet's and its bell is larger than the euphonium's. As a beginner, your intonation will be all over the place on a French horn.
@@baguetteeeeeeee I could play chords on a piano despite never having played one because major chords are just the first, third and fifth note of a scale. And I am guessing the layout on an organ is similar.
Nah. Every melody-based instrument is hard. I mean, us drummers don't have to deal with chords, notes, sevenths and music theory at all, that's hard shit man. Guitar basics, for example, involve how multiple notes sound good when played together: that's much harder than hitting a drum with a stick with sorta consistency
As a pianist, I have to politely partially disagree. While the organ has more to think about (like the multiple layers and the foot pedals) I’m like 99% sure that there are no dynamics for organ. Pianists not only have to read music, but in some cases, each and every note is different in dynamics and the fine tuning of how hard you press the note takes years to get down.
I thought piano was the easiest instrument to play. Just touch it and wham. Perfect note. It's certainly the easiest one for me to plunk something out by ear on. I only mess around with piano and guitar tbf. Flute, clarinet, cello, violin, organ, and recorder (the other instruments in my house) do not interest me.
@@joekim9790 there are dynamics for organ, but you don’t reach them by pressure on the keys. You have to use different stop combinations or with some organs, there’s a swell pedal that operates shutters.
Piano is quite easy to learn , but when you reach the point where you have to think about the sound, not making random accents, phrasing, dynamics...THIS is difficult
My opinion as a violinist, all of the fretless string instruments are very hard, but the violin has the hardest repertoire. The others just haven't had as much of a chance yet. Violinists have Paganini, Ernst, Sarasate, Wienawski, Ysaye, etc. You don't really see composers like that for viola, cello and double bass
Now I want to see Two Set team up with a classical guitarist and review Animals as leaders. Tosin Abasi’s use of the full range of an eight string guitar is awe inspiring. He definitely one of the best examples of why one wouldn’t just down tune a guitar.
Lol yeah. I love Animals as Leaders, it's like the one band I like that my metal purist friends "accept" as music or something. Because fuck Opeth and Nightwish I guess lol.
All of the people at Watchmojo don’t know how to play any instruments so they just spout random crap that any other non-musician would understand which leaves us ling lings shaking our heads
"Triangle: your arm aches it is holding it in front of you. Like the drums it requires lots of awareness on the beat. Therefore it is at number 3." - DumbMojo
7:20 - hey, that's me! Also, I love how they used clips of my Africa video, which features a difficult (and non-typical) percussion part, whilst talking about how easy the harp is to play. It's actually just like any instrument, you kind of go near it and wiggle your fingers, and magic happens. Ask any musician! Haha.
Omg I’m happy for you but DumbMojo used it BUT YOU ARE SOO GOOD AT THE HARP! I’m literally a Grade 3 who has to spend 5 minutes figuring out any note that includes ledger lines 🤣🎶🎼🎵
My first band teacher once told me this and it's something I live by Every instrument is impossibly hard to learn, the fact you are willing to pick up and try an instrument is a skill in itself, and continuing is even harder. Take a triangle, you're trying to hit a small metal piece, holding it correct, tapping it in the same place eveytime, while reading your music, and watching the teacher, and doing dynamics (ever try an accent on a triangle?) And keeping yourself in time, and keeping your band in time, and more
"The violin is difficult because holding it up with your arm outstretched gets tiring" is like saying "Brain surgery is really difficult, because standing for hours at a time without eating or drinking is really difficult". That's literally the least of their worries. It's obvious that there were absolutely zero musicians involved in the making of this dumbMojo video. The ignorance is palpable.
Watchmojo don't put effort on most of it's videos, I found this one video called "Top 10 Weirdest Anime" they called Assassination Classroom weird because a mutant octopus is in that anime, I mean take Pokemon, it has fictional monsters, then they called a teacher that is a mutant octopus weird, that is like Hulk being a teacher then every trying to kill it.
That is the reason why I don't watch Mojo or Bright Side. I click on and start laughing immediately because I instantly know I know more about the subject than their whole team of researchers and producers. Crazily they still have huge numbers of subs, likes and followers. There must be a fairly large size of the population just too gullible who believe every word the say.
@@milanradulovic3915 Started playing classical guitar a month ago. I’m a 4th year cellist so I already have that musical “thing” if you know what I mean. So it’s a lot easier to get into it. It’s an amazing instrument. Such a good range
The Saxophone is the hardest you need to BLOW AIR so that's 32 instruments right there. You also have to use your hands, which is 29 more, and sometimes you have to TAP YOUR FEET so that's 62 instruments. It isn't difficult to play around a campfire, but it's hard to learn so we'll just at 30 instruments and go with it. That's 153 instruments guys.
especially while showing tosin abasi playing the woven web on a 8 string guitar. yeah that song is played pretty much the same way as any other song that features a guitar in it...
as a guitarrist of both i would say that that's correct,the accoustic and electric guitar are plays in the exact same way,the only thing that changes anything is the styles,anyways you can play anything style in accoustic and electric guitar
The funny thing about horn is that the average horn player kinda sucks, and a mediocre player sounds like a pro in comparison, and a truly good horn player is a gift from God.
@@blackmage1276 exactly, their one real reason was you need breath control. If that’s the case why not pick flute (one of the hardest wind instruments in terms of amount of air needed). Or if they absolutely had to pick a brass instrument tuba is easily the most breath needed in brass.
@@THall-vi8cp That is funny, I didn't do the french horn but I did it's cousin the trumpet and I was literally deemed the best player in my class because I have good endurance and breath control even though I was actually mediocre. Maybe it's a horn thing.
Ah but you see with organ you didn't have to read the music you played. All piano players are weird amnesiacs who can only remember music through paper.
Pipe organ should be higher on the list. It's not just playing all the notes with both hands and both feet, but also understanding the principles of the instrument well enough to completely change how you register it whenever you sit down at a different instrument than you normally play. Every pipe organ is different: different ranks, different divisions, different manuals, different console layouts, different feel of the keys, different acoustics, different resonance chambers, different swell divisions, different solo ranks, different levels of repair of each area of the organ... You aren't just playing a musical instrument in a building. You are playing the whole building.
Wow, I was standing in a magnificent neo-gothic church one day after Mass as the pipe organ in the loft was playing us out, ff, and I was thinking just that... the whole building IS the instrument.
And it's not like you can practice on the instument you're performing on whenever you want. In the same vein: carillon. Mess up, and the whole city heard it...
"When you're changing notes, you need to position your fingers perfectly with no frets to guide you." The rest of the string orchestra: Are we a joke to you?
Kisa I mean they are both played by pressing the string onto the fretboard an plucking the strings, but they tend to be used completely differently in music
@@WillSenechal agreed lol When I first learnt to play guitar, I play classical btw, my friends stared at me as if I were some idiot, wondering why my left nails were so short and right nails were long. It’s definitely annoying when I play netball.
I wont claim to be an expert, just a lowly woodwind player here, but why is the piano placed higher than the organ?? The organ is literally a piano but with like more pianos on top???? It should be more difficult?????
Me being a French horn player thinking they were actually going to represent the horn community. Then hearing them say its hard to play because it spirals around.....
@@lizzybach4254 The triangle is challenging in its own way. You have to remain focused for the entire duration of the concert while waiting on your cue. Your 2 notes need perfect timing or everybody feels something is wrong.
@@EnbyFranziskaNagel to be fair tho if you're playing the triangle in an actual orchestra setting you're probably doing the rest of the percussion instruments so you would have more things to do. depending on the piece you might still have to wait for a very long time tho rip
Especially considering bassists usually don't use picks, which makes them have to control the other half a bit more than us pick using guitarists (classical guitarists I do not understand, they are some form of demigod or something.)
No, it's hard because the high e string might attack your face while you're tuning it. It's so scary to tune the high e string. That string is evil. It hit me under my eyen and made a big a** wound. The finger pain will dissapair after some days. But the high e string will always be scary to tune.
Here's what I think is hard with it. 1. Staying in tune (probably applies to all double reeds) 2. Embouchure and breath support (it's more likely to feel your lips cramp up than run out of breath) 3. Dynamics control (mastering embouchure and breath support is key to knowing the "little details" on playing softer/louder) 4. Avoiding the tendency to "bite" the reed to compensate it being either dry, out of pitch, etc. 5. Reeds are sensitive af + can make/break oboists at any level
@@E-Ruu Just to add onto your great comment, that staying in tune is one in the same with embouchure since if you get tired and clamp down more (not bite mind you, clamp as it tightening of the muscles that hold your lips to make a bed for the reed) you go sharp or make a smile face and cant even get the reed to vibrate. Being one of the few and the proud who learned trumpet before switching to oboe that is where the struggle comes. As I get tired I tend to tighten up as the muscle memory is easiest for me when tired. Some people get tired and open up to much and go flat or no sound at all for the opposite reasons. I would say that Embouchure and breath support are your bread and butter for a lot of it. After that its the fingerings, keys, reading, and sight reading which are all kind of the easy things to learn for most. But there is more to it then just that. Way more. And that video did not highlight it at all. You have the fact that since your only viberating a small read and have an even smaller opening you get a build up of air and no real release. Its more like holding your breath while playing instead of running out of it. And then at the end of a phrase need a breath only to find there is still no space for it when you do and hence seeing spots on the next long phrase. And that is where that breath control comes back so that you can keep playing even though you dont have enough oxygen anymore but all that air still and hence keep going. It will also save you from squeaking on low C and a few other notes. You also need time to learn to play evenly since the oboe as it climbs loses resonance and power and gains piercing but there are random notes like mid C and B that like to pop out more. Just to name a few. But that video says we only need to learn to hold our mouth right and keep the reed wet... Right guess I will try to audition for the Symphony now after getting back into playing for 3 months after not for about 12 years. Must be a pro by now... *shakes head* *Face palm*
@@Binosamaladen I don’t know. All instruments are difficult if you want to get good at them. Each has its own quirks. I for example have touched many instruments and was at least able to play competently. Marimba, piano, most drums, all thee brass. How good it was was up for debate but they at least sounded ok. Then I touched a flute... good lord. I could not make a sound out of it and admitted defeat pretty quickly once I got it to make a small whistle sound. I knew from the start it wasn’t going to be easy with me still playing brass at the time and just seeing the mechanics of how that thing works. Oboe is one of the hardest out there though. Many people agree with it being up with French horn and violin. That you can google if you want.
@@duran2398 yeah i fully agree but i just mean that i personally (ima wood wind enthusiast) find somethings harder to handle than others. like i can barely handle the insane changes in loudness for different notes on the bassoon. like i play an a real careful go down to an f and BAM i blow my whole house away hahah idk its just my personal thaught on whats difficult for me. to be fair i only play basson, piano and percussion like activly . other instruments i just tried out. like oboe,trombone,euphonium,flute,french horn and cello (although cello was the only one i couldnt really get something nice sounding off)
"Guitars are all played in pretty much the same way" "Guitar is difficult to master given how many styles it can be played in" Are y'all even HEARING yourselves
Why can't we just say that all instruments are equally difficult depending on the level of mastery you want to get to? Heck, even triangle gets hard if you want to be really good. Some instruments are easier to learn the foundational knowledge of, but I think that not a single instrument is easier or harder to master than another.
I guess instruments that don't have a lot of notes could be thought of as being easier, like a drum or cymbals, but by god do they have to have rythm in their veins.
Bagpipes aren’t hard because they’re hard to carry. The pipes are difficult because you are blowing constantly to inflate the bag, producing sound with your armpit, and you can only articulate through gracenotes, so composers will put a damn symphony between two notes.
As an accordionist, playing the instrument IS a lot like playing two instruments at once. The left hand doesn’t only control bass notes. Chords can be played as well (one button playing an entire chord). Plus, the whole thing is arranged in a manner totally unlike what you’d be used to on a piano. The Stradella system is the most common, with notes being arranged following the circle of fifths. This is actually a pretty intuitive system for playing a wide variety of genres, with the exception of some classical music with complicated left-hand parts. For this, the free-bass system is usually employed, albeit this configuration is quite rare and it is rather expensive to obtain accordions that use this system. Anyway, just thought I would share since I didn’t really see any accordionists in the comments.
It’s funnier when you know that you do not hold your violin/viola with any hands but instead your chin. If we held it with our hands we would drop it every time we have to shift a lot.
10 reasons why the recorder is the hardest instrument ever 1. the recorder needs to be held up with your hands :0 2. you have to blow into it to make sounds :0 3. you have to breathe or you will die :0 4. you have to cover the holes to make different noises :0 5. you have to do the do :0 6. you will not be able to play lf you die of hunger :0 7. you cant' have a heart attack when playing the recorder :0 8. you can't have a seizure while playing the recorder :0 9. you can't eat the recorder :0 10. you shouldn't chop the recorder to bits because if you do you will not be able to play it :0 thats why the recorder is so hard to play
here's the actual ranking: 1. there shouldn't be one 2. not everyone is fit to play every instrument 3. all instruments are difficult to learn 4. some might be harder but you literally can't make a proper ranking unless you play all of them yourself
@@MicahCallari aha ye this is facts. I honestly dont think we get that much hate for hour ego compared to trumpet. I feel like that statement would have been better for viola cuz they deffo get too much hate😂😂
hearing how they described tonguing is golden, like you could play their description of the oboe on its own and you could never guess which woodwind they're talking about.
First of all there are two ways you can say you have learned a language. Speaking and Writing. You don't need both. Illiterate people exist. And then at what point is a language considered learned. Knowing the rules? Being able to craft a sentence? Being able to hold a conversation? Being able to pull out what each person is saying when a bunch of people are talking at once? Proper Pronunciation of sounds in the language? The video falls apart before even watching it.
@@DiviNazuphus also how difficult a language is is VERY dependant on a persons prerequasits, so I as a Norwegian fellow might find Swedish a lot easier to learn than Mandarin, but a Korean guy might feel differently so making a list of something so profoundly subjective is in itself illogical.
@@OffSatan yes that's what I was thinking too ! like learning italian/spanish when you're french is easy (don't get me wrong you have to work hard or you get nothing) because they have kind of the same roots and the many words are similar... in comparison to learning one language that doesn't have the same alphabet first of all or doesn't have its sentence organised the same way...
My issue with it is people won't practice getting everything past 1st in tune, so while in band, (currently high school) listening to the other trombones playing flat a or sharp g is painful, as it's literally one of the most important things to practice imo, but people don't do it.
imagine learning an instrument for your whole life and paying so much hard work into it just for someone to say “oh it’s easier than blah blah instrument” all instruments are hard in their own ways and if you think one is easier than another that’s because you aren’t advanced enough in it, lmao
ahhhh i really try hard not to comment, but have to. As you said, depends on what level of expertise we are talking about. I play guitar casually and I say it's easy to play (casually) but to play like Alexandra Misko or Luca Stricagnoli, damn. Secondly, some people just find it easier to play one instrument over the other. We literally can't make a proper list unless you play all the instruments yourself AND judge without any bias. Sadly, while it's true that the reasoning Mojo put forward as to why certain instruments are hard are totally dumb, Twoset here judge with proper, full blown bias. Till the 2nd rank, "these are dumb, no credibility". Then comes violin as 1st, "CREDIBILITY!!!"
@@orangbiasabiasa This is a very good distinction to make. Some instruments are easier to play than others, some instruments are harder to master than others. My favourite example is Saxophone vs. a Brass Instrument. You can be brain-dead and play the saxophone, while brass instruments are quite difficult to get to a reasonable level. However, to get a quality sound out of a saxophone takes years, something on top of everything else you have to do. That doesn't mean brass instruments are easy to master though. Also, I think you got whooshed.
@@martyshwaartz971 if the whooosh is regarding to them being "all hail violin, other instruments suck", not really. i know they do this for the lols. They did a video once on something along the line "Ask Classical Musician" and one of the questions was do you like pop music. They do. I was surprised, I thought (from their videos), all they listen to all day is classical music. So I can say, yeah, they did it only for the lols. But can't blame me to believe that you believe what you're saying if you keep on repeating "I believe violin is the best and all other instruments suck".
As a guitarist, the guitar scene where he said electric and acoustic were the same physically hurt me. Send a doctor. Nevermind, Kurt Cobain's angel is coming to get me. I can see him...
As a woodwind player, I was quite confused about the reasoning for the oboe. Everything you said applied to almost every instrument using air and a reed.
Vico no. The organ has equally difficult pieces. The organ is a piano times 5 and you need to play the bass with your feet. Also dont forget the buttons lmao
Even though, I doubt that anyone would actually see this. As a drummer myself, I have to say, that in most of the Big Bands I have been in, the drums are like a metronome for the rest.
I think that's a difference between a band and an orchestra. In a band, the drums and bass are the rhythm section and the drums are basically a metronome for the other players. In an orchestra, they have a conductor to dictate tempo
Why? Organs have the extra pedals but they don't have dynamics like piano have. And that is in the very top of what is difficult with piano. The finger technic seems not so much for organs.
@Amaya Pascual Cajal, imagine this. Do you take longer to practice a fast piece on a piano or an organ? By common sense, it should be organ. Btw, dynamic doesn’t make piano a whole lot harder. Speed is.
Twoset in the beginning: Let's start watching with an unbiased perspective Twoset less than ten seconds later: LETS ATTACK THEM FOR EVERY THING THEY SAY 😂😂
Well, this is what WatchMojo deserves. And seriously, as a guitarist I was willing to throw sharp objects at the screen when I heard what they said about the guitar. I'm self trained, I haven't played many classical pieces, but... Finger picking on the classical guitar is one thing, finger picking on the electric guitar is a different thing, finger picking on the electric guitar with distortion is an entirely difficult beast. The sole fact that what you're playing goes through an amp means you have to be much more careful when it comes to muting the strings. (This is something that TwoSet frequently get wrong about electric instruments, by the way - they're not easier to play, they're different. The first few months of playing the electric guitar were quite difficult to me, because I was used to playing without amplification - and suddenly the amp amplified every single mistake I made.)
Yeah, i can't believe they are making something stupid like this, i played guitar, bass, and drum, and never said this one is harder than this one, try to do double hand tapping 120 bpm and i guess every violinist will cry
Yes, but no. Basically what you’re saying is true, but also with some instruments is just much more possible than with others. But on the other hand the difficulty of an instrument lies in the way you produce sound with it. Violin is not even close as easy to play than a fluet for instance.
I generally feel like piano and most brass instruments are probably the hardest for beginners to learn but I feel when you get into the more advanced stuff, drums can get pretty hard to master. The size some of those kits can get pretty insane.
finally, someone that realises the sheer ridiculousness of drums the most advanced drum kits are more or less specialised to a drummer's liking (position of the drum toms, alongside cymbals), but specifically how you hit each tom/cymbal changes the sound of it as a drummer, i feel validated rn by your comment lmfaoooo
I feel like piano would be decently easy to learn, I mean, the notes are all in a line with the pitch going up or down, with the half steps differentiated as the black keys and such.
maybe some brass instruments but definitely not trumpet. as a trumpet player it is pretty easy to pick up and play simple notes. sure once you play higher notes and more complicated articulations ect it gets really hard, but you can start playing really quickly
"Whether electric or acoustic, guitars all get played pretty much the same way" not even one minute later: "Guitar is hard to master given how many styles it can be played in and the given techniques used in each style."
As an oboist, there is a lot more difficulty to playing oboe than just “how you use your mouth” which I believe they are trying to say “embouchure.” The tone quality is dependent on many factors, such as the quality of reed, the embouchure, endurance as playing oboe can be very tiring after some time. The position of the oboe and placement of your tongue, as well as external factors such as the weather and climate, all contribute the the sound of an oboe. An oboe could sound different everyday just based on these external factors such as humidity or dryness. And this is all without mentioning the finger and tongue coordination along with the complex fingering. We have to adapt to so many factors that are crucial to playing oboe. All I’m trying to say, is that oboe is hard!
When i first started learning oboe my teacher said it was one of the harder instruments to learn but for none of the reasons in this video.... I had a good laugh though
they should add "Playing the piano is like playing an instrument in each hand! With the left hand you play the piano but with the right hand you also play the piano"
also, add "and the fact that you only have one keyboard, don't have to worry about stops, and don't have to play additional notes and control volume with your feet makes this instrument even harder than the organ."
It's important to talk about "Skill Floor" and "Skill Cap" when discussing difficulty. Piano has a low skill floor, because a beginner can learn a basic song on it within five minutes. Violin has a high skill floor because it is difficult for beginners. Skill floor varies drastically between instruments. A high skill cap means that there is a large difference between someone who has practiced for 1000 hours and someone who has practiced for 10,000 hours. Most instruments have a high skill cap.
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as a cello player i was so dumbfounded at the level of stupidity in this list, it looks like the makers of it just googled instrument and picked the first ones they saw
it hurts so much to always see violin or even vi*la before us :(
as cello hobbyist I agree, worst list ever
As a fellow cello player I can agree
Cello gang
Why wasn't cello on there? Our shifts are harder then those with small fingerboards
The hardest instrument is the triangle because no one has ever played flight of the bumblebee on a triangle.
Sacrilegious
Damn true
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The video linked here proves how difficult the triangle is to play:
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Watch Mojo: “Holding a violin gets tiring, as you have to hold it up with your arm outstretched.”.
Flutes: Am I a joke to you?
I so agree, and the flute is pretty much the instrument that requires the most air, it's really up there!!!
Eyy flute specific section
Colourful Rainbow also tuba requires a lot of air too
Same for triangle, tho... :)
Agreee.. holding flute make a 90degrees ( almost i think) , lead the lip on the right position, breathing technique, fingering chart.
I almost dropped my fluite while doing C 😅
I think piano is the hardest because as a pianist, we have to keep track of all 88 keys at once to make sure they dont run away. Its like playing 88 instruments times ten because each finger has to watch each key.
I can't tell if you are joking
I'm joking don't worry
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I've been trying to relearn the piano and i'll admit it's been hard but that's because of my declining attention span that makes me not want to commit to learning not cause it's a hard instrument. But yeah piano was the first instrument I learned to play for a reason, in my opinion it's a good beginner instrument. If you can learn it you can learn any instrument in my opinon.
Yes I agree
Number 0: The Triangle
While looking simple at first, the Triangle is difficult to learn. While playing the triangle, not only do you have to have to hold it up, but you have to keep the whole band in time. It's really like playing 6 instruments at once. You have to use one hand to hold it up, one had to use the stick to make the sound, you have to use your eyes to read the music, you have to use your legs to stand up, you have to use your nose to breath, and you have to use your brain to do everything else. Only true masters can play such a difficult instrument.
hahahaha dumb mojo is sacrilegious
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Best comment here
Lol im ded🤣
Ha i like to cheat and use my mouth to breathe. (seriously imagine a triangle player with their mouth open all the time. yw)
“Pianists always have to sight read!” Ah, yes. Because memorization certainly isn’t a huge part of piano tradition.
If that bit about "always" having to read (sight or no) were true it would be impossible to improvise!
I also like that it's the only instrument om the list where you "have to sight read". Because all those other instruments on the list always just go by grove, with no written music behind it.
Edward V Please, we all know every other instrument does it by ear. Sight reading? They’ve never heard of it.
😅😅😅
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I love how they put piano as harder to learn than the organ. Ah yes, walking is harder to learn than running.
Yeah Idk what the hell they were thinking putting organ so low on the list o.o
Ah yes, the piano is harder than the organ.
Organ: Bitch, I'm basically 5 pianos I-
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
I play both and organ is definitely harder. I would've imagined it's common sense.
Interesting. I play both and find the piano to be much harder in the end, due to the dynamics in playing being a lot more complex.
Like, it's harder to get to a base level where you have sufficient control over all aspects of the instrument on the organ.
But to get from there to real class, the phrasing, the taste in nuance... This is where the piano pretty much runs away with it IMO.
I love how they ranked playing piano as harder than playing an organ, when an organ is basically a piano on steroids
Lmao yeah
Piano times three, pedal keys times 32, and stop knobs. A bit easier than one set of keys and 3 pedals that don't play notes.
Piano on steroids 💀
WHEN U AGREE TO THESE MEMES AS A PIANIST
an organ is very different from a piano
Number 0: Kazoo.
Even though this plastic instrument may seem like a toddler’s toy, this instrument requires a tremendous amount of skill and proficiency. You have to use one hand to place the kazoo in your mouth, and use the other hand to hold the kazoo in place. You also have to get your respiratory system working together (totally forgetting the idea of breathing) to let the air flow into the kazoo. It takes several years of training to be able to produce a decent sound while also using your own two feet to stand up while playing. This instrument needs tons of coordination to be able to play it. You also need to hum a tune into the kazoo in order to produce a melody, which is already a daunting task including learning the proper position of the kazoo, music theory, and also *paying your own money* to buy the instrument.
the triangle: this instrument takes years of mastery to produce the perfect set of vibrations, whilst requiring a set of hands capable of holding the instrument itself in a position that is capable of producing these long lasting vibrations, while the other hand has to have the capability of hitting the instrument with a miniscule metal bar at the perfect angle and at a preferable velocity of around who knows what i never played it, making it 2 instruments that require a high sense of precision, coordination, positioning, and endurance by having to stand up in some occasions. any disturbance while playing this could shatter the player's focus, possibly messing him up and playing an ear breaking ding.
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I'M CRYING
this comment is so UNDERRATED
JackSucksAtLife agrees
Top 10 hardest instruments ranking:
9th - organ
5th - piano
As a pianist, I am confused.
Same bro
Well, you should use Simply Organ. In 3 weeks you'll find it easier to learn than piano. In one month you'll play bumblebee on organ.
Imo it makes sense because piano repertoire is way harder since we had Liszt and Rachmaninoff running around seeing how hard they cold possibly make a piece.
@@m.adlya.6394 lmfaooooooooo
@@m.adlya.6394 Simply organ Hahahahaa
This is like that snobby kid in high school who doesn't know anything about music, but still insists on using music terminology to sound smart.
"Dude, that piece sounds so sharp. I wonder how they do those double stops on piano?"
"double stops"
Yes I wonder how they are playing major thirds
hmmmmm
Oh I know try playing a major tenth
Exactly. This narrator tries to use big words to sound smart, but it’s clear he doesn’t understand what they actually mean, evidenced by his use of the words in explanations that don’t make sense and aren’t accurate
@@lperseusl Umm, are you referring to Twoset? Twoset isn't toxic at all. Their sense of humor is full of satire and irony, so sometimes they pretend to be overly prideful as a *joke.* Although I sometimes think too many of their jokes revolve around making fun of other instruments, it's still very obvious that they aren't being serious. Like when they talk crap about violas, it's all a joke and in good fun.... They don't *actually* hate violas.
"holding a violin gets tiring"
French horn players: my hand is literally green right now
lmaoo
As a french horn player I approve this message
"You have to use both hands while simultaneously sight reading"
*proceeds to show clip of someone playing without sight reading*
*facepalm*
I cringed so hard at that part!
And they showed the absolute worst example they could have found, because Glenn Gould has never been seen with sheet music on his piano. There's a video of him recording the Goldberg Variations for a record and he's just playing the whole thing like in a live concert. Probably didn't even bring the sheet music with him to the studio.
Wwa
@@saphirarose5866 aww
Aw
Twosetviolin: This list has no credibility
*List has violin as nr.1*
Twosetviolin: Suck it losers! Violin is best!
What hypocrisy?
Kimoto I think they knew they were being hypocrites and tried to use that for comedic effect
Well r/woosh everybody who replied
i’m vegan
ThirstySquirtle d Okay
DumbMojo: "French horn requires great lung capacity because of its twisted structure"
Tuba that literally is about 9.6 meters of twisted tubing: Am I a hole to you?
I know it's meant to be a joke but fun fact, french horns and tubas have equal length of tubing. Double french horns are even a bit longer. I'd say the reason why the french horn is so hard to play is because its tubing is extremely conical : its mouthpiece is smaller than the trumpet's and its bell is larger than the euphonium's. As a beginner, your intonation will be all over the place on a French horn.
d i g g e r i d o o
Bruh I played French Horn for several years and I swear I developed specific muscles just to hold the bell that I've never used since
pffft-
@@emilytaylor468 LMAO
i can not believe the pipe organ is easier than a friggin guitar
Exactly. When I got a guitar, I learned 3 guitar chords and tuning on my guitar in 1 hour
@@baguetteeeeeeee Could you switch between them in under 30 seconds though?
Comparing them isn't really possible since they are too different from each other. But it being lower than piano is a meme
@@baguetteeeeeeee I could play chords on a piano despite never having played one because major chords are just the first, third and fifth note of a scale. And I am guessing the layout on an organ is similar.
@@tktspeed1433no, they’re the first, _fourth_, and fifth of a scale
"Basics are easy but mastering is difficult"
Hmm sounds like every instrument I can think of
@@heyytheree As expected from the most difficult instrument. Not even basics are easy
@@heyytheree fact.
The organ looks like it's the hardest to play with so many keys pedals and stops
Nah. Every melody-based instrument is hard. I mean, us drummers don't have to deal with chords, notes, sevenths and music theory at all, that's hard shit man. Guitar basics, for example, involve how multiple notes sound good when played together: that's much harder than hitting a drum with a stick with sorta consistency
Ahh yes the floor is made up of floor
“A mastery of hand eye coordination” proof that Stevie wonder isn’t blind
Add that to the list.
a mastery of hand coordination XD
XD
Damn it ray charles
lmaooo
I like how they deem piano harder than the pipe organ like W HA T ? *confused noises*
That’s because ummmm.... hmmmm, got it! Because the drums keep the beat.
As a pianist, I have to politely partially disagree. While the organ has more to think about (like the multiple layers and the foot pedals) I’m like 99% sure that there are no dynamics for organ. Pianists not only have to read music, but in some cases, each and every note is different in dynamics and the fine tuning of how hard you press the note takes years to get down.
I thought piano was the easiest instrument to play. Just touch it and wham. Perfect note. It's certainly the easiest one for me to plunk something out by ear on. I only mess around with piano and guitar tbf. Flute, clarinet, cello, violin, organ, and recorder (the other instruments in my house) do not interest me.
@@joekim9790 there are dynamics for organ, but you don’t reach them by pressure on the keys. You have to use different stop combinations or with some organs, there’s a swell pedal that operates shutters.
Piano is quite easy to learn , but when you reach the point where you have to think about the sound, not making random accents, phrasing, dynamics...THIS is difficult
Dumbmojo: while playing the violin, you have to place your fingers perfectly without frets.
Violas, cellos, and upright basses:
Am I a joke to you?
Frrr😭😭
*Cries in cello
My opinion as a violinist, all of the fretless string instruments are very hard, but the violin has the hardest repertoire. The others just haven't had as much of a chance yet. Violinists have Paganini, Ernst, Sarasate, Wienawski, Ysaye, etc. You don't really see composers like that for viola, cello and double bass
@@joshtheviolinistVery true. However, viola is always the hardest because they are always out of tune.
@@cookiegirl1097 true, I could not tell you now many times I have heard an out of tune c string from violas in orchestra
""Every guitar is played in the same way"....shows Tosin Abasi who, literally, plays the guitar unlike anyone else...
Now I want to see Two Set team up with a classical guitarist and review Animals as leaders. Tosin Abasi’s use of the full range of an eight string guitar is awe inspiring. He definitely one of the best examples of why one wouldn’t just down tune a guitar.
true! Tosin, Mateus Asato, Tim Henson, Ichika, they're the today's virtuosos
Yeah Tosin Abasi it's the next level alive
Lol yeah. I love Animals as Leaders, it's like the one band I like that my metal purist friends "accept" as music or something. Because fuck Opeth and Nightwish I guess lol.
Right, Mojo said "An electric and acoustic guitar is played the exact same way" lmao
This video should be called
“WatchMojo describes the bare minimum skills required to play literally any instrument”
While contradicting themselves the entire time xD
All of the people at Watchmojo don’t know how to play any instruments so they just spout random crap that any other non-musician would understand which leaves us ling lings shaking our heads
*Dumbmojo :P
"Triangle: your arm aches it is holding it in front of you. Like the drums it requires lots of awareness on the beat. Therefore it is at number 3." - DumbMojo
7:20 - hey, that's me! Also, I love how they used clips of my Africa video, which features a difficult (and non-typical) percussion part, whilst talking about how easy the harp is to play. It's actually just like any instrument, you kind of go near it and wiggle your fingers, and magic happens. Ask any musician! Haha.
Amy Turk that’s cool!
You were awesome!
Whoa, that should earn you a practice 40 hours sweatshirt from the guys...
Omg I’m happy for you but DumbMojo used it BUT YOU ARE SOO GOOD AT THE HARP! I’m literally a Grade 3 who has to spend 5 minutes figuring out any note that includes ledger lines 🤣🎶🎼🎵
I actually learned La Campanella on the piano in 2 hours because I just believed in the magic! Piano is so simple!
My first band teacher once told me this and it's something I live by
Every instrument is impossibly hard to learn, the fact you are willing to pick up and try an instrument is a skill in itself, and continuing is even harder.
Take a triangle, you're trying to hit a small metal piece, holding it correct, tapping it in the same place eveytime, while reading your music, and watching the teacher, and doing dynamics (ever try an accent on a triangle?) And keeping yourself in time, and keeping your band in time, and more
"The violin is difficult because holding it up with your arm outstretched gets tiring" is like saying "Brain surgery is really difficult, because standing for hours at a time without eating or drinking is really difficult". That's literally the least of their worries.
It's obvious that there were absolutely zero musicians involved in the making of this dumbMojo video. The ignorance is palpable.
The writing is terrible. Sounds like a 10 year old doing a shitty job on a homework
Marching band instruments also get tiring because you gotta march in beat while holding them. So difficult! :o
Watchmojo don't put effort on most of it's videos, I found this one video called "Top 10 Weirdest Anime" they called Assassination Classroom weird because a mutant octopus is in that anime, I mean take Pokemon, it has fictional monsters, then they called a teacher that is a mutant octopus weird, that is like Hulk being a teacher then every trying to kill it.
As a trombone player that easy lol
That is the reason why I don't watch Mojo or Bright Side. I click on and start laughing immediately because I instantly know I know more about the subject than their whole team of researchers and producers. Crazily they still have huge numbers of subs, likes and followers. There must be a fairly large size of the population just too gullible who believe every word the say.
Dumbmojo: All guitarists usually play the same way.
Also Dummojo: There are many styles you can play in.
Oh I'm a guitarist I'm offended af
@@akshithathirupathy1583 me too... 😤
Yeah we da guitar ganggg!!! But I'm planning on learning the violin too...
@@milanradulovic3915 Started playing classical guitar a month ago. I’m a 4th year cellist so I already have that musical “thing” if you know what I mean. So it’s a lot easier to get into it. It’s an amazing instrument. Such a good range
I'm a guitarist and i as soon as i heard that i almost blew up
They really should just rename it as “TOP 10 instruments watch mojo knows”
found a stay
Yes, that's right. 👌
You mean dumbmojo
Dumbmojo don't actually seem to know them either
KSSJSBWH ☠️☠️
The Saxophone is the hardest you need to BLOW AIR so that's 32 instruments right there. You also have to use your hands, which is 29 more, and sometimes you have to TAP YOUR FEET so that's 62 instruments. It isn't difficult to play around a campfire, but it's hard to learn so we'll just at 30 instruments and go with it.
That's 153 instruments guys.
What are you saying????
@rongting365 he's commenting on how watchmojo thinks that an accordion is two instruments because you need two hands to play it.
Sax is not the hardest ☠️☠️ literally all those reasons apply to all wind instruments
@@long7463thats-
thats the joke
"While the plucking of the strings of the harp is easy enough..."
TELL THAT TO MY BLOOD BLISTERS AND CALLUSES
Use finger picks then
Lmao
Hinata Shōyō twoset+haikyuu fan? Nice!
I played harp once, one guy on "train station" let me play it =3 he was so nice
Anyways, yes, it was hard to coordinate, but really fun!
im surprised they knew about the fact that pedals on harps exist, but damn that explanation was shit lol
Me: I play Guitar......it has 6 strings
DumbMojo: Oh so you play six instrument at once
People who think organ is harder because more buttons: guitar is harder than violin because guitar has more strings.
@@ethan6627, yes it is
theres a thing called "strumming"
@@ethan6627 piano is the hardest because have a lot strings and button
😂😂😂
As a classical guitarist, I got so triggered when dumb mojo said “Wether electric or acoustic, guitars get played pretty muck the same way”.
especially while showing tosin abasi playing the woven web on a 8 string guitar. yeah that song is played pretty much the same way as any other song that features a guitar in it...
As an elctric guitarist, I to got very triggered
@@3pizza43 I was like, "I certainly don't play like that" 😂
Yea it’s triggering but ngl there are a lot of things acoustic and electric share that you can play a lot of the same things on it
as a guitarrist of both i would say that that's correct,the accoustic and electric guitar are plays in the exact same way,the only thing that changes anything is the styles,anyways you can play anything style in accoustic and electric guitar
they actually got the french horn exactly right, everyone thinks you suck and its literally because your instrument is just harder
IKR also the notes and partials are actually so close together
They didn't explain why it's hard. "You need lots of endurance to push air through" is like only 1% of why it's hard
The funny thing about horn is that the average horn player kinda sucks, and a mediocre player sounds like a pro in comparison, and a truly good horn player is a gift from God.
@@blackmage1276 exactly, their one real reason was you need breath control. If that’s the case why not pick flute (one of the hardest wind instruments in terms of amount of air needed). Or if they absolutely had to pick a brass instrument tuba is easily the most breath needed in brass.
@@THall-vi8cp That is funny, I didn't do the french horn but I did it's cousin the trumpet and I was literally deemed the best player in my class because I have good endurance and breath control even though I was actually mediocre. Maybe it's a horn thing.
Organ: Literally 4 pianos with pedals
WatchMojo: Damn piano is harder
Ah but you see with organ you didn't have to read the music you played. All piano players are weird amnesiacs who can only remember music through paper.
*DumbMojo
And they say accordion is less hard than piano. 😂
@@Pinball1 *what?!*
*cough* dynamics *cough*
But low key, the harp difficulty pays off because anyone playing the harp looks like a greek god
The Harp, organ and bagpipes have such an old world feeling I love.
Kimberly H. Ikr, they’re just so mythical sounding and looking (same applies with flute)
Lyre!
(P.S. it's a pun opportunity I had to go for it, no offense meant! :D )
I now want to invest in a harp and learn to play
Aquarius Amethyst same man, but I’m too lazy to learn other instruments😅
DumbMojo: “You need to hold the violin and that is what makes it hard to play.” People who play viola, trumpet, flute, etc: *your point?*
viola = garbage
Oi Josuke
Theremin players:
*psh* these amateurs have to HOLD their instuments. Like, Can you imagine?!
People who play piano: *sweat nervously*
Marching band kiddos: soooooo?
I love how they show a video of a person playing piano without sheet music while talking about how pianists need to sight read constantly
Pipe organ should be higher on the list. It's not just playing all the notes with both hands and both feet, but also understanding the principles of the instrument well enough to completely change how you register it whenever you sit down at a different instrument than you normally play. Every pipe organ is different: different ranks, different divisions, different manuals, different console layouts, different feel of the keys, different acoustics, different resonance chambers, different swell divisions, different solo ranks, different levels of repair of each area of the organ... You aren't just playing a musical instrument in a building. You are playing the whole building.
I'm not an organ player and even I am offended that organ was so far down in the list
Wow, I was standing in a magnificent neo-gothic church one day after Mass as the pipe organ in the loft was playing us out, ff, and I was thinking just that... the whole building IS the instrument.
Not to mention the delay between pressing a key and the sound coming...
And it's not like you can practice on the instument you're performing on whenever you want. In the same vein: carillon. Mess up, and the whole city heard it...
Organ should be higher than piano
I play french horn. And the shape was the least of our problems.
The first problem you encounter is trying to not make fart noises.
the fact that your instrument makes fart noises by default puts it in the number one spot fo sho!
*u n b r e a k a b l e. e g o.*
damn this guy really has an
*u n b r e a k a b l e e g o.*
Idk what your talking about fam. The first problem I encountered is positioning my hand.
My problem was not getting the right pitches. But i have learnt how to make fart noises, so understandable
"When you're changing notes, you need to position your fingers perfectly with no frets to guide you."
The rest of the string orchestra: Are we a joke to you?
Hate the discrimination
Lol, all the sting instruments just like:
I see no frets here!
me, a cellist:
wheres my instrument?!?!?!?! its just as hard for everyone lmao
@@coconib212 cello gang
@@sqx.2 ayeeee
Dumb Mojo: Percussion, even in an orchestral setting, are used for keeping everyone in time
Conductors: Guess I'll die
*"whether electric or acoustic guitars all get played pretty much the same way."*
BRUH WHAT DID U JUST SAY?????
I mean you press frets and hit strings, whether on acoustic or electric
@@benparsons4979 Actually you don't have to hit strings.
@@benparsons4979 the same can be said about piano, you press keys and hit strings.
When the difference between the models of acoustic and classical guitars from the same brand are already massive there's no way they play the same.
And 8-string electric guitars are not the most common representatives of the family... What about ukulele?
"whether electric or acoustic, the guitar is played pretty much the same way"
I beg your pardon?
Wait a second... aren’t they??🤨😂
Kisa I mean they are both played by pressing the string onto the fretboard an plucking the strings, but they tend to be used completely differently in music
@@benlow46 oh, cause i started off with classical guitar and for 2 years i got into the electric so i was questioning if i was playing it wrong lol
@@azereth338 classical guitar and electric guitar are quite different
eddie.
wHaT tHe CLucK
Viola is the most difficult instrument. If you think about it, nobody has ever been able to play it well
Viola jokes aside, good viola sounds BEAUTIFUL!!! I hope you don’t actually think this.
@@thespeedyyoshi All jokes bro. I'm actually a French horn player. I know what is to play basically a meme😂
Pinchas Zukerman. He is legendary. Watch him play Halvorsen passacaglia with Perlman.
Hum and piano
@gJb 1 lol why so salty
“The guitar is played pretty much the same”
“The guitar is hard to learn given that it is played in all different styles.”
As a classical guitarist who has tried to play jazz, rock 'n roll, funk, flamenco etc, that first line broke me.
@@oifikd1 wait until they hear about nails, it'll blow their minds! Ahahaha
@@WillSenechal agreed lol
When I first learnt to play guitar, I play classical btw, my friends stared at me as if I were some idiot, wondering why my left nails were so short and right nails were long. It’s definitely annoying when I play netball.
@@oifikd1 because classical guitar it´s for classical peace. Jazz use semiacustic guitar
@@RikuoCZ Tf is a semi acoustic lmao?? Do you mean a hollow body or semi hollow body?
I wont claim to be an expert, just a lowly woodwind player here, but why is the piano placed higher than the organ?? The organ is literally a piano but with like more pianos on top???? It should be more difficult?????
This is correct. If you know how to play keyboard/piano, you can transition to organ once you learn the stops and pedal work.
The repertoire made specifically for the two instruments is actually quite different.
hell yeah!! this whole list makes zero sense
It is, this whole video is just bullshit. The only reason the piano is harder is its repertoire.
The amount of stops and pedals on a organ compared to a piano is god tier should be way harder
A pipe organ is literally a Piano but with like 4 extra keyboards and a footboard, how did they deem organ easier than piano?
because you don't have to read music with the organ
@@alechanted hahaha
@@baronnuuke7821 I'm gonna assume you are being sarcastic
There are no dynamics but that aside piano is way harder to master because of the reportoir however the organ will be way harder to learn
Because piano is harder to play, it's very sensitive to technique.
One can easily test which instrument is the hardest one, by using a hydraulic press. Personally, I have no desire to find out.
What's the difference between a piano and a cello? The piano burns longer.
😂
So, the bass?
Saxophone would win 😂😂😂😂(sax gang where y'all at)
This is amazing!
"Every guitarist is so triggered right now." As a classical guitarist, that is one of the most accurate things I have heard.
Me being a French horn player thinking they were actually going to represent the horn community. Then hearing them say its hard to play because it spirals around.....
Yeah dude
you need to have lung of steel ma dude 🤣🤣🤣
Cries in partials
So sad. Translation of watchmojo’s explanation:
“Horn is hard to play because you need to exhale”
And the lip control, for lack of better word, is a freaking b*tch man...
As a French Horn, I must state that my ego is very breakable and constantly is destroyed by the amount of times the directors forget we exists.
so relateable
once my band director completely forgot to add the horn section (consisting of 2) in the concert program D :
I’m also a horn player and I have an extremely unbreakable ego, even if I screw up really badly
the amount of times my conductor just forgets that we play during a part-
which is fine by me bc I suck anyway :,)
don't forget that in the upper registers you are playing on a wish and a prayer as most of the notes are just lipped.
nah man why do i agree xd and when people say ur instrument is easy .-.
Let's face it, No matter what the instrument is, Mastering it will always be difficult.
except the triangle lmao
@@janamahlich6406 Yeah, you're right
@@lizzybach4254 The triangle is challenging in its own way. You have to remain focused for the entire duration of the concert while waiting on your cue. Your 2 notes need perfect timing or everybody feels something is wrong.
@@janamahlich6406 may or not be stealing the top comment but no one has ever played flight of the bumblebee on a triangle
@@EnbyFranziskaNagel to be fair tho if you're playing the triangle in an actual orchestra setting you're probably doing the rest of the percussion instruments so you would have more things to do. depending on the piece you might still have to wait for a very long time tho rip
"Coordinating both halves of you to play in sync can be challenging"
The drummer and the bassist: Am I a joke to you?
Especially considering bassists usually don't use picks, which makes them have to control the other half a bit more than us pick using guitarists (classical guitarists I do not understand, they are some form of demigod or something.)
Mojo: guitars are played all in the same way
Also mojo: you can play guitars in different techniques and styles
Play with a pick ? We don't do that here.
I don't even play guitar, but I know that the first statement is utter bullshit
@@rafaelrandom500 playing with picks is U N E P I C O
@@advk77 ayyyyy Davie
@@outgoingblur A P P R O V E D
“All guitarists play the same” “guitar is hard cause theres so many ways to play” smh
Thats Some Big brain Contradictory There XD
Irony
"hardest instruments to play"
Puts guitar on the list
"Any one can play at the campfire level"
All guitarist can play 'Almoraima' on his acoustic guitars, lmao
No, it's hard because the high e string might attack your face while you're tuning it.
It's so scary to tune the high e string. That string is evil.
It hit me under my eyen and made a big a** wound.
The finger pain will dissapair after some days. But the high e string will always be scary to tune.
-Interesting-
-Sacrilegious-
Unbreakable Ego
2020: _Birth of a new meme_
People watching this early are part of a historical event
Yes! I have an unbreakable ego, an unshakeable will and i will now -invade Poland- learn the oboe.
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apple mango commercial(not actually by apple)
Having an unbreakable ego sounds like something that comes with most trumpet players
I play french horn
Pretty much everything they say for each instrument could be applied to ANY instrument.
Fr
I believe the Oboe is difficult, my sister was learning how to play and every time she practiced it sounded like a duck being murdered
Here's what I think is hard with it.
1. Staying in tune (probably applies to all double reeds)
2. Embouchure and breath support (it's more likely to feel your lips cramp up than run out of breath)
3. Dynamics control (mastering embouchure and breath support is key to knowing the "little details" on playing softer/louder)
4. Avoiding the tendency to "bite" the reed to compensate it being either dry, out of pitch, etc.
5. Reeds are sensitive af + can make/break oboists at any level
@@E-Ruu Just to add onto your great comment, that staying in tune is one in the same with embouchure since if you get tired and clamp down more (not bite mind you, clamp as it tightening of the muscles that hold your lips to make a bed for the reed) you go sharp or make a smile face and cant even get the reed to vibrate. Being one of the few and the proud who learned trumpet before switching to oboe that is where the struggle comes. As I get tired I tend to tighten up as the muscle memory is easiest for me when tired. Some people get tired and open up to much and go flat or no sound at all for the opposite reasons. I would say that Embouchure and breath support are your bread and butter for a lot of it. After that its the fingerings, keys, reading, and sight reading which are all kind of the easy things to learn for most. But there is more to it then just that. Way more. And that video did not highlight it at all. You have the fact that since your only viberating a small read and have an even smaller opening you get a build up of air and no real release. Its more like holding your breath while playing instead of running out of it. And then at the end of a phrase need a breath only to find there is still no space for it when you do and hence seeing spots on the next long phrase. And that is where that breath control comes back so that you can keep playing even though you dont have enough oxygen anymore but all that air still and hence keep going. It will also save you from squeaking on low C and a few other notes. You also need time to learn to play evenly since the oboe as it climbs loses resonance and power and gains piercing but there are random notes like mid C and B that like to pop out more. Just to name a few. But that video says we only need to learn to hold our mouth right and keep the reed wet... Right guess I will try to audition for the Symphony now after getting back into playing for 3 months after not for about 12 years. Must be a pro by now... *shakes head* *Face palm*
oboe is definetly difficult but i think theres atleast one wood wind insturment thats more diffocult
@@Binosamaladen I don’t know. All instruments are difficult if you want to get good at them. Each has its own quirks. I for example have touched many instruments and was at least able to play competently. Marimba, piano, most drums, all thee brass. How good it was was up for debate but they at least sounded ok. Then I touched a flute... good lord. I could not make a sound out of it and admitted defeat pretty quickly once I got it to make a small whistle sound. I knew from the start it wasn’t going to be easy with me still playing brass at the time and just seeing the mechanics of how that thing works. Oboe is one of the hardest out there though. Many people agree with it being up with French horn and violin. That you can google if you want.
@@duran2398 yeah i fully agree but i just mean that i personally (ima wood wind enthusiast) find somethings harder to handle than others. like i can barely handle the insane changes in loudness for different notes on the bassoon. like i play an a real careful go down to an f and BAM i blow my whole house away hahah idk its just my personal thaught on whats difficult for me. to be fair i only play basson, piano and percussion like activly . other instruments i just tried out. like oboe,trombone,euphonium,flute,french horn and cello (although cello was the only one i couldnt really get something nice sounding off)
"Guitars are all played in pretty much the same way"
"Guitar is difficult to master given how many styles it can be played in"
Are y'all even HEARING yourselves
That entire video was them just padding their word count in an essay. :/ Completely meaningless words thrown together.
lmao XD
@@StudlyFudd13 honestly, they gave a minimum word count and paid a high schooler to write the script
they’re so contradictory against their OWN words wtf make up ur mind
@@predaconsjewel753 nah I'm in 10th grade and I could write a better script overnight
Twoset: “We're not a roasting channel”
Also Twoset: *roasts everyone*
The irony of this channel.😆🎻
@@thatonechristianweeb4050 Atleast *dumbmojo* got violin as hardest correct LMAO
Their a grilling channel
@@wizardwill999 Noice! Lol
But with reasons😂
Why can't we just say that all instruments are equally difficult depending on the level of mastery you want to get to? Heck, even triangle gets hard if you want to be really good. Some instruments are easier to learn the foundational knowledge of, but I think that not a single instrument is easier or harder to master than another.
It generalizes and simplifies everything to make it easy to rank for a stupid top ten video.
What bout the triangle?
I guess instruments that don't have a lot of notes could be thought of as being easier, like a drum or cymbals, but by god do they have to have rythm in their veins.
True.Kinda true
@@tktspeed1433 what do u mean by "don't have a lot of notes"? have u seen a drum set music sheet?
Bagpipes aren’t hard because they’re hard to carry. The pipes are difficult because you are blowing constantly to inflate the bag, producing sound with your armpit, and you can only articulate through gracenotes, so composers will put a damn symphony between two notes.
Finally an explanation for grace notes that i can use to explain bagpipe music 😂
"producing sound with your armpit" :O :O :D
bass drum hard cuz heavy🥴
"pianists only sight read" as they show a man playing without sheet music
MY THOUGHT EXACTLY
Hahaha! He was sightreading, but from memory!
He wrote the song
I nearly fell off my chair when I heard dumbmojo say that
i almost feel bad for the voice actors who need to read these horrible scripts, but then i remember they probably get paid premium mojo bucks
As an accordionist, playing the instrument IS a lot like playing two instruments at once. The left hand doesn’t only control bass notes. Chords can be played as well (one button playing an entire chord). Plus, the whole thing is arranged in a manner totally unlike what you’d be used to on a piano. The Stradella system is the most common, with notes being arranged following the circle of fifths. This is actually a pretty intuitive system for playing a wide variety of genres, with the exception of some classical music with complicated left-hand parts. For this, the free-bass system is usually employed, albeit this configuration is quite rare and it is rather expensive to obtain accordions that use this system.
Anyway, just thought I would share since I didn’t really see any accordionists in the comments.
The hardest thing about accordion is finding people who are willing to learn an instrument that sounds so goddamn awful
@@mistersonnen848 ???
@@myenglishisbadpleasecorrec5446 what? Lol
@@mistersonnen848 I like the sound of accordions!
@@mistersonnen848 Nah that's bagpipes
"Holding a violin gets tiring"
Me, a French horn player: "Am I a joke to you?"
IKR
I marched with one :,)
me a tuba player...
my goals are beyond your understanding
I gotta admit holding 45 pound tenor drums for hours at a time with minimal breaks is quite an easy task
It’s funnier when you know that you do not hold your violin/viola with any hands but instead your chin. If we held it with our hands we would drop it every time we have to shift a lot.
10 reasons why the recorder is the hardest instrument ever
1. the recorder needs to be held up with your hands :0
2. you have to blow into it to make sounds :0
3. you have to breathe or you will die :0
4. you have to cover the holes to make different noises :0
5. you have to do the do :0
6. you will not be able to play lf you die of hunger :0
7. you cant' have a heart attack when playing the recorder :0
8. you can't have a seizure while playing the recorder :0
9. you can't eat the recorder :0
10. you shouldn't chop the recorder to bits because if you do you will not be able to play it :0
thats why the recorder is so hard to play
“You can’t eat the recorder”
If I try hard enough I can ;)
@@smamwang i-
you have perfectly captured the logic of the video
You have to exist to play the recorder.
Me about to try playing the recorder: mission failed boys, we'll get em next time
@@smamwang forbidden snacc
here's the actual ranking:
1. there shouldn't be one
2. not everyone is fit to play every instrument
3. all instruments are difficult to learn
4. some might be harder but you literally can't make a proper ranking unless you play all of them yourself
6. Some people have stronger lungs while others have almost no lung capacity and control, making it harder to play for example brass and woodwinds
7. Some people have tiny hands or strange joints which can make it harder to play instruments like piano, double bass, bass guitar, violin, etc
5. Piano
Organ should have been 1 or 2
Piano is generally harder as there are two lines of music
As an oboe, if your reed is moist you are guaranteed to play good.
wait, YOURE an oboe, HOW ARE YOU ON YT
is your reed moist?
as a bassoon, i’m salty asf that bassoon wasn’t also on this list but i’m not surprised 😭
@@jad.3gr33nHONESTLY LIKE AS AN OBOIST YALL DESERVE MORE LOVE
"OF COURSE THEY ARE PLAYING FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE BECAUSE THIS VIDEO IS SACRILIGEOUS"
Sacriligeous de geso!
Dude: *Plays the organ*
Jesus: “No.”
Pretty sure that's what happens to me at church 😅🙃😩
This needs more likes tbh
-acrilege
😂Lolol
"You need an unbreakable ego to play"
This literally means you're not very respected. Respect the french horn gang.
Doesn’t the “unbreakable ego” belong to trumpet players?
i am a french horn and i can confirm the only ego we have is knowing we’re more respectable than the trumpets
@@MicahCallari aha ye this is facts. I honestly dont think we get that much hate for hour ego compared to trumpet. I feel like that statement would have been better for viola cuz they deffo get too much hate😂😂
@@theresamnsota3925 Definitely the trumpets XD
It’s the trumpet with the ego. We’re too scared of getting split notes or just missing the first note in general
hearing how they described tonguing is golden, like you could play their description of the oboe on its own and you could never guess which woodwind they're talking about.
The only thing worse than 'Top 10 most difficult instruments' is 'Top 10 most difficult languages'. Jesus, that video is horrific.
First of all there are two ways you can say you have learned a language. Speaking and Writing. You don't need both. Illiterate people exist. And then at what point is a language considered learned. Knowing the rules? Being able to craft a sentence? Being able to hold a conversation? Being able to pull out what each person is saying when a bunch of people are talking at once? Proper Pronunciation of sounds in the language? The video falls apart before even watching it.
@@DiviNazuphus exactly
@@DiviNazuphus also how difficult a language is is VERY dependant on a persons prerequasits, so I as a Norwegian fellow might find Swedish a lot easier to learn than Mandarin, but a Korean guy might feel differently so making a list of something so profoundly subjective is in itself illogical.
@@OffSatan yes that's what I was thinking too ! like learning italian/spanish when you're french is easy (don't get me wrong you have to work hard or you get nothing) because they have kind of the same roots and the many words are similar... in comparison to learning one language that doesn't have the same alphabet first of all or doesn't have its sentence organised the same way...
Tᴀᴇᴜɴᴀ Æᴏʟʏɴ There are two worse ones: Top 10 Easiest Instruments and Top 10 Easiest Languages.
"There's been no brass. Could be trumpet, french horn, or tuba."
Trombonists: "... guess i'll die"
As a violinist/violist, I personally feel the trombone is even harder then the violin.
True *sad trombone noise*
My issue with it is people won't practice getting everything past 1st in tune, so while in band, (currently high school) listening to the other trombones playing flat a or sharp g is painful, as it's literally one of the most important things to practice imo, but people don't do it.
Trombones being left out and forgotten
"This is fine."
If you learn trombone first, every other brass instrument a cakewalk
imagine learning an instrument for your whole life and paying so much hard work into it just for someone to say “oh it’s easier than blah blah instrument” all instruments are hard in their own ways and if you think one is easier than another that’s because you aren’t advanced enough in it, lmao
ahhhh i really try hard not to comment, but have to.
As you said, depends on what level of expertise we are talking about. I play guitar casually and I say it's easy to play (casually) but to play like Alexandra Misko or Luca Stricagnoli, damn. Secondly, some people just find it easier to play one instrument over the other.
We literally can't make a proper list unless you play all the instruments yourself AND judge without any bias. Sadly, while it's true that the reasoning Mojo put forward as to why certain instruments are hard are totally dumb, Twoset here judge with proper, full blown bias. Till the 2nd rank, "these are dumb, no credibility". Then comes violin as 1st, "CREDIBILITY!!!"
@@orangbiasabiasa This is a very good distinction to make. Some instruments are easier to play than others, some instruments are harder to master than others.
My favourite example is Saxophone vs. a Brass Instrument. You can be brain-dead and play the saxophone, while brass instruments are quite difficult to get to a reasonable level. However, to get a quality sound out of a saxophone takes years, something on top of everything else you have to do. That doesn't mean brass instruments are easy to master though.
Also, I think you got whooshed.
@@martyshwaartz971 if the whooosh is regarding to them being "all hail violin, other instruments suck", not really.
i know they do this for the lols. They did a video once on something along the line "Ask Classical Musician" and one of the questions was do you like pop music. They do. I was surprised, I thought (from their videos), all they listen to all day is classical music. So I can say, yeah, they did it only for the lols. But can't blame me to believe that you believe what you're saying if you keep on repeating "I believe violin is the best and all other instruments suck".
This comment isn’t actually true it just makes people feel better xd
The triangle.
Brett: “Stay on time, guys”
Eddy: *and I took that personally*
Im a French Horn player...why do we need an unbreakable ego? As a matter of fact, my ego is very easily broken
same i am not confident
same. Also. my right hand moved 2 cm and now I am how horribly out of tune.
To play the sick french horn solos in front of the rocking crowds of course.
Because we look DUMB. 😂
He’s roasting y’all by saying you look dumb or something
“Holding a violin in the right position gets tiring, as you have to hold it up with your arm outstretched”
*laughs in marching trumpet*
*laughs in flute*
Doesn’t laugh in violin
Marching Trombone
and your arms apparently don’t get tired playing a full gig as a heavy metal drummer
Trombone? The entire point of the instrument is an outstretched arm.
"Even dumbmojo knows that violin is harder than bASS."
- Chen, Eddy (2020)
#violingang
Whatever, I admit it's harder, does it make it best? it goes to your opinion
@@eyes4095 it really comes back to your opinion of it
Lol that's a really nice roast insert there XD
Twoset to Davie: We're not over yet
As a guitarist, the guitar scene where he said electric and acoustic were the same physically hurt me. Send a doctor. Nevermind, Kurt Cobain's angel is coming to get me. I can see him...
As a woodwind player, I was quite confused about the reasoning for the oboe. Everything you said applied to almost every instrument using air and a reed.
Yes and the put recorder on the easy instruments list!!
“Ya don’t say” -flutes who don’t know why they’re woodwinds
(I’m just messin with ya I agree)
@@wyn3951 I play flute:) and also piano
@@wyn3951 "don't know why they are woodwinds" one of my friends whho play the oboe said to me, "you flutes should f**king belong to brass"
As an oboe player they literally left out everything hard about oboe!
“Piano is playing 2 instruments at once”
AND ORGAN ISN’T?
Isaac M-C the organ is built more complicated but songs played on it aren’t like some of the piano pieces. That’s the main reason I guess
I feel like playing Organ is like playing 5 instruments at once lol.
Vico no. The organ has equally difficult pieces. The organ is a piano times 5 and you need to play the bass with your feet. Also dont forget the buttons lmao
But i guess both is hard in different ways. The dynamics in piano is pretty damn hard too
organ isn't difficult because it is like playing 2 instruments, you actually play on 3 different instruments
"You need an unbreakable ego"
Me, a recorder player: tell me about it
Leo Ki
Me: A viola player
(For the record i dont play viola)
Oi who made it 71
Even though, I doubt that anyone would actually see this. As a drummer myself, I have to say, that in most of the Big Bands I have been in, the drums are like a metronome for the rest.
I think that's a difference between a band and an orchestra. In a band, the drums and bass are the rhythm section and the drums are basically a metronome for the other players. In an orchestra, they have a conductor to dictate tempo
How is piano harder than an organ? That's very backwards
Why? Organs have the extra pedals but they don't have dynamics like piano have. And that is in the very top of what is difficult with piano. The finger technic seems not so much for organs.
In playing the piano, you touch affects the sound produced. In organ playing the sound is predetermined.
Because while playing piano you “must” sightread, while the organ allows you to practice.
@@Xionma1 i was gonna respond but i think this is better
@Amaya Pascual Cajal, imagine this. Do you take longer to practice a fast piece on a piano or an organ? By common sense, it should be organ. Btw, dynamic doesn’t make piano a whole lot harder. Speed is.
Twoset in the beginning: Let's start watching with an unbiased perspective
Twoset less than ten seconds later: LETS ATTACK THEM FOR EVERY THING THEY SAY
😂😂
haha truee 🤣
I'm happy they defended the guitar tho!
Well the watchmojo video was really shit
@@evelynlomusic7802 I'm glad they defended piano gang as well
Well, this is what WatchMojo deserves.
And seriously, as a guitarist I was willing to throw sharp objects at the screen when I heard what they said about the guitar. I'm self trained, I haven't played many classical pieces, but... Finger picking on the classical guitar is one thing, finger picking on the electric guitar is a different thing, finger picking on the electric guitar with distortion is an entirely difficult beast. The sole fact that what you're playing goes through an amp means you have to be much more careful when it comes to muting the strings. (This is something that TwoSet frequently get wrong about electric instruments, by the way - they're not easier to play, they're different. The first few months of playing the electric guitar were quite difficult to me, because I was used to playing without amplification - and suddenly the amp amplified every single mistake I made.)
An instrument's difficulty is determined by how far YOU take your playing.
Josiah Wilson could not have said it better
Yeah, i can't believe they are making something stupid like this, i played guitar, bass, and drum, and never said this one is harder than this one, try to do double hand tapping 120 bpm and i guess every violinist will cry
Woke af 💯
Perfect comment.
Yes, but no. Basically what you’re saying is true, but also with some instruments is just much more possible than with others. But on the other hand the difficulty of an instrument lies in the way you produce sound with it. Violin is not even close as easy to play than a fluet for instance.
I generally feel like piano and most brass instruments are probably the hardest for beginners to learn but I feel when you get into the more advanced stuff, drums can get pretty hard to master. The size some of those kits can get pretty insane.
finally, someone that realises the sheer ridiculousness of drums
the most advanced drum kits are more or less specialised to a drummer's liking (position of the drum toms, alongside cymbals), but specifically how you hit each tom/cymbal changes the sound of it
as a drummer, i feel validated rn by your comment lmfaoooo
I feel like piano would be decently easy to learn, I mean, the notes are all in a line with the pitch going up or down, with the half steps differentiated as the black keys and such.
@@tktspeed1433It’s not half steps, it’s sharps and flats. But it is easy for beginners.
maybe some brass instruments but definitely not trumpet. as a trumpet player it is pretty easy to pick up and play simple notes. sure once you play higher notes and more complicated articulations ect it gets really hard, but you can start playing really quickly
"Whether electric or acoustic, guitars all get played pretty much the same way"
not even one minute later:
"Guitar is hard to master given how many styles it can be played in and the given techniques used in each style."
First year adult classical guitar student here. My friends and I joke that it's basically a different instrument than "guitar" altogether 😂
@@James-nr9gm I'll bet! Hey, they got it right the second time, though.
Patience is a virtue but time is gold. 🤣🤣🤣
As an oboist, there is a lot more difficulty to playing oboe than just “how you use your mouth” which I believe they are trying to say “embouchure.” The tone quality is dependent on many factors, such as the quality of reed, the embouchure, endurance as playing oboe can be very tiring after some time. The position of the oboe and placement of your tongue, as well as external factors such as the weather and climate, all contribute the the sound of an oboe. An oboe could sound different everyday just based on these external factors such as humidity or dryness. And this is all without mentioning the finger and tongue coordination along with the complex fingering. We have to adapt to so many factors that are crucial to playing oboe. All I’m trying to say, is that oboe is hard!
I play the oboe too, and I cringed so hard for the watchmojo's simplification.
I play violin but i agree ♡
The -good- sound is really difficult to make :)
I also play oboe and the notes above high C# are so inconsistent you need to make adjustments like every time you play them.
When i first started learning oboe my teacher said it was one of the harder instruments to learn but for none of the reasons in this video.... I had a good laugh though
I play both clarinet and sax, it’s the same for both of them. Mad respect to oboe players though, the embouchure is much harder on double reeds.
The fact that pipe organ was below guitar is everything you need to know about the validity of this list
Pipe oeg was gifhest iw thino
Ikr, I laughed out loud at 7:03
@@Paradoxical_Enigma Thats exactly what I thought
what confuses me more is that pipe organ AND accordion is placed below piano
@@juaniumn ikr
3:58 Brett actively getting pissed off
5:48 Eddy getting even more pissed
they should add "Playing the piano is like playing an instrument in each hand! With the left hand you play the piano but with the right hand you also play the piano"
also, add "and the fact that you only have one keyboard, don't have to worry about stops, and don't have to play additional notes and control volume with your feet makes this instrument even harder than the organ."
also, add "and the fact you don't have to hold it up like an accordion while having to control both 'instruments' makes piano harder to play!"
And with your feet you play the piano
Top 10 Hardest Instruments:
10. All
9. Instruments
8. Are
7. Challenging
6. It
5. Depends
4. On
3. How
2. You
1. Organ
XYN S AMEJING
Ha yes!
1. mayonnaise*
Fact!
I can confirm, organ is the most difficult ever, and I'm hardcore struggling 😬
me: sees “instrument ranking” in title
me: *i smell war*
Lmao true tho
im the 69th person to like this
I’m ur 100th like :)
ahaha yeah
Me who plays French horn:
h u h w t h
Holding a violin gets tiring.
Holding literally any instrument that isn't on the ground is tiring.
I bet even holding the harp in place
is tiring and well its on the ground lol (i've never played the harp don't take my word)
Like woodwinds that are being held up by technically a thumb.
holding an accordion(usually weighs more than 10kg) is funky.
It's important to talk about "Skill Floor" and "Skill Cap" when discussing difficulty.
Piano has a low skill floor, because a beginner can learn a basic song on it within five minutes. Violin has a high skill floor because it is difficult for beginners. Skill floor varies drastically between instruments.
A high skill cap means that there is a large difference between someone who has practiced for 1000 hours and someone who has practiced for 10,000 hours. Most instruments have a high skill cap.
Exactly, I feel like just some people think about it.
That is what they should be comparing; this right here. (Also, skill ceiling, not cap?)
@@robadobflob3405 Skill ceiling and cap are the same thing
this list doesn't go by skill floor at all, if it did organ wouldnt be at no. 9, and drums wouldnt be on the list
@@aprilsj732 i know, but continuity
"The accordian is forever associated with weird Al Yankovich."
Eastern Europe: "Am I a joke to you?
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Piano accordion*
Yeah this triggered me
I physically cringed
I could hear my grandma yell це українська мова and beat someone with a rolling pin
As a bassist, I am currently punching air.