So i dont really have experience with music, ive tried piano and the recorder in the 5th grade but i could never really figure it out. I want to try again but i realized i dont like mouth perices due to fluid build up and having to clean it everyday. I know there is the triangle but i feel like its limited, but i may be wrong.
My goal is to someday do a cover song using a instrument? What would you advise or suggest and why so? It would help if i could start for cheap.
Mouth harp or washboard. There is literally no way to suck at them.
Kazoo
Couple of sticks and an upside down bucket - you’ve got a drum. Add another bucket - bam! Drumkit! You’d be surprised how much sound and rhythm you can get from what’s around you using a couple of sticks. Get actual drum sticks if you wanna splurge. Listen to the Brazilian drums in Paul Simon’s The Obvious Child and just have a play. So much fun!
I thought that Ukulele was a pretty nice way to learn the foundations of string instruments
I picked up uke super fast, much easier than guitar since it’s only got 4 strings and they’re often nylon or whatever and not metal. Not great at it, takes a while to freestyle, but the basic chords are simple, and there’s a few channels on YouTube that put out four chord songs. Also fairly cheap, I started on a $50 one that wasn’t great but passable, and upgraded later to Enya for like $130 and that works just fine
Much easier to pick up than a piano, for sure. Pianos are very heavy.
Ukuleles has that weird tiny low string, it’s like a crocked toe or something.
On a more practical not, pun intended, why not some type of guitar? It’s a much bigger family of musical instruments and once you know one…
To me woodwinds and brass seem harder than other instruments. If it were me starting over again I would pick Piano or guitar. There are lots of resources to learn and you can keep trying methods until you find one that clicks with you. Use a metronome, backing tracks, play your scales and practice in time.
Mayonnaise
Harpsichord
Kazoo. If played with skill, you will become one of the most popular people alive.
I love to stumble upon Rhiannon Giddens in the wild. I love what she did with the Drops, but her other work is also so interesting.
Zappa has entered the chat.
For anyone unaware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDE9MC3jnl0
- Dude was a hungry freak and a real pioneer.
edit: lol, of course I had to go listen to some. “Goin’ back to Palmdale where the turkey farmers run”
