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"Ukulele only has 4 strings, it's easier then guitar"
"Shakespeare's books have less words than modern novels, they're easier to understand"
Nice one
This made me laugh
Made me let out an actual chuckle
This is an excellent point! I think you meant “scripts” rather than “books” tho
@@Quesnar The school system basically treats them like books, which is a shame honestly
I think everyone would understand way more about them if we got to watch them, preferably in-person (obviously not now, but maybe watch a recording of a production, etc.)
“You just... well... shake them”
*yeah, for the piano you just click on them*
Nice one
good roast!!!
WhATs So HArD AboUT tHat
JuSt ClIcK aNd Be GrIeG aLrEaDy
Yeah for the triangle you just tap them
Mojo's formula is quite simple.
Hardest instruments: "Though it is easy to learn, it is hard to master"
Easiest instruments: "Though it's hard to master, it is easy to learn"
Then there's the violin ahh😢
😂😂
I had to read that at least 10 times to figure out both statements say the same...
Lol that is so truee! I just noticed!!
UNDERRATED
"there's not really much to playing the xylophone"
**shows marimba player using four mallets**
Any instrument is "easy" to play if your just going to play the four chords of pop.
What if you’re a flautist...
**Sad flute noises**
Easy u clone yourself
@@battlekon215 Of course, I’m sure the chap from NASA who put electrodes in Vov Dylan’s violin will help me
Haha yes. I can play a little hard pop song but I can't even play the easiest classical piece like Mozart's first variation of Twinkle Little Star 🤣
Drummer: haha funny joke
I’m a professional percussionist and I‘m personally offended
As a percussion student, I feel your pain.
F
Otto Gibb Ayeee instrument mate
Could be worse, you could be a violist and broke. 😁
LING LING GRANGER I mean yes, but they show “percussion” as something worthless which really concerns me when I think about all the practice I’ve made to learn😂
Okay, percussion gang here. At high levels we're required to know how to play ALL of those instruments, and even something as "simple" as the triangle or tambourine has a lot of depth behind it. Freshman year percussion studio class we had a whole THREE WEEKS devoted to nothing but triangle, and another three weeks to tambourine, and another three weeks to cymbals. No drums, no keyboard instruments, nothing. Beyond that we had juries where we were required to incorporate x amount of instruments in original compositions, so you had to keep up with your skill on the "low skill" percussion instruments. Not to mention the fact that getting a good tone out of a keyboard percussion instrument is largely due to correct mallet selection for the repertoire, consistent striking locations (not hitting the damn nodes), and correct stick control.
Plus, using four mallets is ridiculously hard. Especially when you have to swap between two and four.
Very true. Playing one percussion instrument really good is hard to do, but having to play *all* relatively good is not an easy thing. It's easy to make any sound on perc instruments, but making good sounds and correct sounds for the context is not.
with triangle what you've just told me is your school wasted your time
learned triangle in 2 minutes. *Ding *Ding
I mean you are making the case that a specific percussion instrument tends to be easier than other instrument, which is fine...
I KNOW! THANK YOU! IT TOOK ME NEARLY FOUR MONTHS TO PLAY RELATIVELY SMOOTHLY ON A BELL KIT HELP 👍🏽👍🏽😭😭
Even as an outsider I can tell playing with for stick must be hard. And that is not even considering going from "hit stick with stick to make sound" to "play keyboard percussion using mallet consistently" is hard in itself.
I play clarinet and even I can tell that percussion isn't easy. Percussion is the group that my band director has to work with the most because of all the different rhythms and timing they have to learn and perfect for each piece.
Those are true words right there. The only reason i say that our percussionists suck is because they dont put in the effort half the time in my school
i also play clarient and my band director is also very focused in the percussion line because its hard to master
Also I will say as a percussionist, the most vital thing is timing. We have to be the best with timing. If not, you are not playing. I was in marching band as a bass drum, and being on time and subdivisions, polyrhythms, were so difficult. Dont even get me STARTED on xylophone with the 4 mallets...
I'm not a musician, only do digital music for my college projects. but I have had the pleasure of playing real drums before and i gotta say, my admiration for drummers grew tenfold after.
Holy crap, it was hard.
The precussion gang seems to be really underated and I don't really understand why.
Percussionists who don’t get rhythms exasperate me aghhhhh
Showing a marimba while talking about a xylophone is like showing a recorder while talking about a flute
everyone calls a recorder a flute it's so annoying
@@thetrashcanking ikr
@TheTrashCanKing I flinch every time I hear some one do that...
I mean, in many languages it is. In spanish, recorders are called either "flauta dulce" (sweet flute) or "flauta de pico" (beak flute). And it's similar in german, dutch, etc (if I'm not wrong, it's called something like "block flute" in those languages). It is also part of the flute family, more precisely an internal duct flute.
@@pablolichtig2536 you're right in Portuguese we call a recorder flauta doce.
Top 10 hardest instruments: "The basics are easy, but it's hard to master"
Top 10 easiest instruments: "It's hard to master, but the basics are easy"
Well, your comment is so underrated !
The irony
LMAO
Dumbmojo in a nutshell
But apparently the opposite is true for the tambourine.
I played the marimba for 7 years in school, and it’s NOT easy. Especially getting 9 marimbas to play difficult pieces together. Getting the right sound and dynamics. Getting the correct notes to play. With 4 mallets. I am a violinist now but will always have a respect to marimba players.
Legit; watching you guys react to this made me feel better about me playing my Native American drum, I felt inferior to all other non-native instruments 😅. I always thought "I'm just hitting my one drum with my one stick, it's not very impressive looking for non-natives"🥲. But watching you guys say how those instruments aren't as easy as they look even with less drums or strings and whatnot...it made me feel better. I feel validated in my pride of native American drumming. Also, using our rattles! I have played the Native American drum and rattles. It IS more difficult than you'd think. Even more so for us actually. In my tribe, we aren't allowed to hit the center of the drum hide because it's seen as disrespectful. Our ancestors/grandma are in the center, so you'd be hitting them basically.
Dude you're really epic!
@@allinory 😅Thanks dude! 😁
As a percussionist, anything that shakes or rattles is a lot harder than it looks (ex. tambourine, maracas, etc.), it takes an incredible amount of control so please be proud of what you play!
As also a Native American I agree drumming can be hard because I’ve participated in one of my cousins drum groups and it can be difficult
Wow, that's awsome! What is your instrument's specific name? I'd like to look it up, the whole tradition and symbolism behind it is really interesting!
" *iF yOU CaN pLAy iT eASy , yOu CaN pLAy iT haRD* " - DumbMojo.
Yeah and you just blow in the holes... someone should tell them that in blues, you do a lot more sucking.
@@runrig97 Dumbmojo sucks anyway, so that should be "easy" for them
I wish you hadn't edited the harmonica comment out of your comment now my reply has a lot less context 🙂
They say it dumb for a reason...
Throws a bongo at you balls of fury style with the wrench
One time, a percussionist told me, hit the triangle, that’s easy. Now, hit the triangle with the same strenght and produce the same sound 10 times in a row.
Oof
Yeaaaahhh my 3rd grade music teacher said the same
I'm your 666th like 😌
And that reminds me of the Bernstein roasting triangle video
i had a triangle solo once, it went so hard
I just appreciate the fact that even Brett and Eddy know how hard it is to play a marimba.
Percussionist here who plays varsity marimba for high school Frontline:
When I was first learning, there is so much that goes into the sticking and mallet technique. You have to have your hands gripping the stick a certain way, hit the center of the bar (even with four mallets and with you’re perception of the center being warped with the angle) thinking about up stroking, not pushing the mallet into the instrument, prepping the hands over the next note, moving in the direction you’re playing, pulsing on the pulse marks to match the music, and so much more all while looking up at the other frontline players to match what they’re doing as well. Mallet instruments take so much time and work to master. During the summer, only the drum line and frontline sections have to take 3 hour practices each week, and by the end of it, you’re hands are blistering and you’re arms are sore. Don’t ever downplay percussion, frontline, or drum line, instruments for being seemingly easy to master. They’re not.
My sections practice 6 hours a week
I just joined front for indoor percussion season. We had two three hour practices and one six hour practice this week. My hands hurt so bad. Still really fun tho. We’re going to nationals later this year.
I'm in drumline (snare player), I got put on marimba for one of our concert pieces and my part was easy but man marimba is extremely difficult I have mad respect for anyone that can have that accuracy and precision.
“Triangle is the easiest”
(Flashbacks to Leonard Bernstein trying to get the percussionists to play that triangle part)
Ah ah 🤣🤣
And the Bernstein clip is here: czcams.com/video/ebf6_7nHciw/video.html (for anyone who's curious)
Digidi dummm
I love that clip!
Same!
“The xylophone is easy to play”
**shows a marimba**
Easy to play but hard to recognize it seems...
@Emiliano Nahuel Krembs 😂
3:53 That’s a merimba
4:19 THAT’S STILL A MERIMBA
Exactly, I thought I was the only one who noticed that
Is the marimba not a xylophone?
I once played cymbals in orchestra (i was the pianist, but one piece had no piano so i was asked to do cymbals) and keeping track of 100 measures of rest was no joke. Percussionists, who have to play many different instruments, are AMAZING.
FR keeping track of rests and then miscounting 1 is the worst-
I’m really confused as to why kazoo wasn’t number one
😂 there's nothing to say
This video is just the exact definition of SACRILEGIOUS
The real top ten easiest instruments:
10. All
9. instruments
8. get
7. really
6. difficult
5. at
4. the
3. highest
2. level
1. Kazoo
@っっ actually it isn't, you can buy original kazoos that are instruments
Omg this comment is gold😂
I was really confused as to why kazoo wasn't number 1 or 2 in the original list since drum like instruments depend a lot on rhythm which needs talent....
Kazoo though... Yah...
@っっ YOU ARE INSULTIBG MY WAY OF LIFE KAZOO IS LIFE
Kazoos are actually really easy. It’s probably the easiest instrument to play no matter what lol. Feel free to prove me wrong :)
Ah yes *A man of Classical Culture*
"A flute has no strings, therefore must be extremely easy to learn"
-DumbMojo
It is it, getting those high notes is difficult
@@ah_pim Idk if you're saying that it is extremely easy to learn, or you mistyped, but yeah. high notes are cancer.
as a flautist i have so much to say.... high notes, vibrato, reading FREAKING LEDGER LINES, embrochure shifts
It is difficult is what I am trying to say lol now I am turning off auto correct
It’s actually not that easy because if you want those high and I MEAN high notes then you have to blow hard across, but at the same time you can’t blow that hard or then it’s going to squeak and you have to stay steady and breathe right or then your going to have a head ache 😣 but yea dumb mojo is what their name is 🙄😬😂😂
I think the mistake people often do is just because someone can transfer their skills and get an ok sound out of an instrument quickly it means it's easy. If you're a good percussionist then then you've already laid a lot of the ground work for tonnes of other percussion instruments.
It's like with language, English is easier to learn if you're a native speaker of another germanic language (Swedish, Dutch, etc.) than if your native language is Korean. Because the languages are related and you already have a lot of the foundation ready.
Anyone who plays recorder well knows it's extremely difficult. Between producing a pleasant tone, playing in the third register, constantly adjusting pitch, creating vibrato with finger shading, applying the many tonguing techniques, playing in both bass and treble clef, learning to transpose fingerings across F, C, and D instruments, and using the many extended recorder techniques, there's at least as much to deal with on recorder as on more modern instruments.
Facts. It is not easy, I would go into more detail but I'm tired so I won't
On the low notes you have to barely breathe at all and half holing consistently is a pain. There's a bit more to learn because the recorder was never revamped with keys like other modernized instruments like the clarinet.
Recorder player here. Low intermediate level. No way are the advanced, proficient, or pro levels attainable. No way!
By this logic, running should be the easiest sport actually. All you do is get up and run.
Yeah, running is just fast walking.
"Bruh, why aren't you running right now? You're wasting your time walking when you could be training to run. It's the eASiEsT sport, Of cOUrSE."
if you can walk slowly you can walk quickly
considering the way the reduce things every sport is the easiest sport because you just [do the win thing]
- kick some ball in some net
- throw some ball in some net
- drive a car in a circle
- hit a ball with a stick
- punch some guy in the face
- etc
Leter du*bmojo will make top 10 easiest sport because of your comment ,lol
I think this is right... run is easy, hitting a ball like in baseball is difficult
*Top 10 Easiest Instruments in the World*
"Number 1. The triangle"
Actually, the *triangle* is the hardest instrument because no one has played *Flight of the Bumblebee* on It.
Damn that’s big brain
America's Got Talent: *Hold that thought*
Bruh
It's not the hardest, but I agree it's not the easiest either
LMFAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOAOAOAOAOAOO
As a percussionist, this video offended me to a whole new level. I mean like, come on. We literally have to learn and master the techniques of every single percussion instrument. Just think of it this way. You have to learn violin, viola, cello, and double bass in a few weeks because you have to play them all in your upcoming concert. Sounds challenging, right? Also, don't you just love how DumbMojo shows literal movie clips of some of the instruments as valid evidence? All I can say is, many thanks to TwoSet for supporting us percussion players.
Even their claim of “simply learning the feel and the notes of the instrument will take no time at all” is garbage. I started percussion about a month ago for my high school’s indoor percussion program (glockenspiel). I’ve had about 45-50 hours of rehearsal and no. I can rarely hit all the notes correctly, I’m only just able to look up from my board to make sure I’m with the other players, and my hands hurt constantly. Also I never expected the triangle to be as difficult as it is.
If percussion didn’t exist, i would’ve left band. I always use percussion to help me count, love you guys
@@nadia9526You're just bad
@@TotalMeltdown2 Actually I’ve kept with percussion and am doing quite well.
And who asked you, you don’t seem like you’re all the great at anything.
@nadia9526 I'm better than you'll ever be and that's a fact. Cope
I play the recorder and the clarinet (and a bit of sax). If anything, the recorder is the hardest at a higher level because of tuning, alternate fingerings, extended techniques that are essential at a grade 7 level, which isn't the same with the clarinet. Even though it was easier to get a sound out of the recorder, making it sound good was so much harder than the clarinet or sax
As a flutist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and oboist (who has played recorder to a decently high level before), yeah
Out of all of them, Oboe is definitely the hardest, both to start and to sound good at, followed by recorder. You have to find a way for the recorder to actually sound soothing and not like a kid's toy. You have to play well enough to not just sound good, but to fight the stigma.
Flute and clarinet are both harder to start but it takes less effort to sound good after intermediate level.
And sax is just easy. It should be the thing kids start on. It's substantially easier than all other symphonic band instruments, especially alto and tenor.
I could be completely wrong since I only play bowed string instruments, but I think that only matters if it can be better than sax or clarinet. A $100 instrument will be a lot more difficult to get a good sound out of than a $10,000 instrument of the same kind, and that isn't because it's harder, it's because the instrument is worse.
@@T4zchi Friend of mine took up the violin as an adult. He got a decent second hand violin rather than buying a "school version", so he actually sounded ok after just a few months. And after two years he had a really nice rendition of "Happy birthday". We got to try it and it was not that hard to create _one_ pure note, because it is a good instrument. The cheaper "school violins" kid get to learn on requires a master to sound even decent. (I believe, these guys have a video on the subject, if not, feel free to roast me.)
@@57thorns Yeah that's kind of what I was saying
"Of course, it's difficult to play well" is just DumbMojo's Ling Ling insurance
i would like your comment but it has 420 likes
They're gonna have a high premium
@@liesalllies
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DumbMojo: Four strings makes an instrument easier
Also DumbMojo: The violin is the hardest instrument to play
Me: :confushon:
Four strings is easier.
Bass gang be like: wut?
I'm cOnfuSioN
Oh you’re right!
Oh same
Me : i Am CoNfUsIoN
i think she should have to learn each and every one of these instruments and then play them in a concert hall solo.
also i play tenor and alto recorder with my high school music program (small school so no real orchestra or even band) and sure, a child can play a soprano recorder but even alto is long enough that it's hard to hit the holes right and make a non-tortuous sound. also i don't think she knows about the second octave which is super finicky and i struggle with after playing recorder for 5+ years. for her punishment, i sentence her to a year of instructing a bunch of first graders on the soprano recorder.
As someone who has played recorder in symphonic band, it is not easy. the fingerings are similar to a saxophone, but it mostly requires changing your air flow like you would when playing trunpet to change octaves, as opposed to a sax having an octave key.
plus not to mention, anyone can make sound out of a recorder but it takes practice to actually achieve a GOOD sound like most wind instruments
well said
“dumbmojo is back” knew it
trisha poh yaaass
Is dumbmojo the actual name?
Theres now a new rule. The 169 rule
I’m your 1st sub 👏 👏 👏
Batzo 08 aw thank you but i’d prefer if u dont heh those were my primary school projects
I’ve actually seen a jazz percussionist doing an INSANE triangle solo.
emc gang
Wanna seeee
Even the triangle gang
IS BETTER THAN THA
Bro Saxophone is actually so easy that should be #1
It’s jazz so I’m not surprised
As a percussionist I’m actually going insane from this list. I’m fairly new to percussion (~2 years) and having played marimba (and xylophone for that matter) triangle, bongos, tambourine, shakers and cymbals, they are all shockingly technique based. They look super simple but often require super precise hand movements. For example, to get the proper sound from a shaker you need to ensure your doing the proper motion just rolling the beads inside isn’t playing it. Tambourine and triangle are more simple to do just a few small hits but they definitely get difficult when you have to do a bunch of repeated beats and keep in time. Also doing rolls for both of those are pretty hard, with triangle it can sound really messy if not done properly and tambourine there is a specific technique where you tightly drag your thumb around the edge to create a roll, it is hard to do (I still haven’t learned how yet 😢) Lastly, (I didn’t mean for this to be an essay whoops) cymbals are in the same area as triangle and shaker in the sense that getting a noise out is easier but it can sound reeeaaaallly messy if you don’t get the proper seal, motion, speed, mute when they crash.
That I you for those that have read my percussion rankings and thanks two set for appreciating the percussionists ❤
"of course it's hard, but it's easy"
🗿✨
Dumbmojo: “smaller instruments are easier”
Piccolo players: *facepalm*
Also, as a mellet percussion player myself, I would call myself average at xylophone and glockenspiel. I still take many hours to practice on single piece of music. Dumbmojo does not do their research!
idk thats not what they said but ok
Piccolo was pretty hard for me to pick up, I play flute so I was required to learn it eventually
@@tuxdraws8004 Dude playing high notes on the piccolo is so hard for me (the E flat, F above the ledger line and notes after) (;-;) For some reason my embouchure gets tight that I can't hit a clear note. It's so difficult since I'm still a beginner at the piccolo.
Me, a piccolo player:
**Plays a screeching noise till they die**
Friendly reminder that "the percussionist" is not a drummer, they usually play "anything that needs to be hit with something"
Well in that case a piano is a percussion instrument because you hit keys with your hands.
@@passingthetime_ piano actually is percussion, but not because you hit the keys with your hands. It’s because of the hammers hitting the strings.
@@nxyuu no, it isn’t. Because the strings are actually making the noise, it makes a piano a string instrument.
Edit: I just looked it up, and it’s considered both.
@@passingthetime_ a stringed percussion instrument
I'm a percussionists who's played in an Orchestra for many years. I've played all of the above percussion instruments in concerts and none of them are in any way easy. Frankly getting a basic beat going (which seemingly is what they're basing their video on) is far easier on drum kit than say bongos, or with Piano than Xylophone
They shows NEIL PEART, the GOD of drumming, for their “bongos” clip. I’m at a loss. He was well known for bringing and playing an entire percussion section to live performances, he was a fucking beast. I honestly would love to watch your guys’ reaction to Rush’s live performance of Xanadu from Exit… Stage Left, it’s a work of art, and all three band members are virtuosos in the rock community.
As a percussionist, when she said xylophone and showed the marimba clip, I actually died inside. I play the marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and all mallet percussion instruments. It takes so long to learn how to use more than 1 stick in each hand (especially for chords because of how far of a stretch your hand needs to do to play while also staying in time). Plus, you need the right mallets, right dynamics, and yknow what? I'd like to see the lady try having 4 mallets in her hand playing 16th notes on the marimba in the piece Bamboo Warrior. Or better yet, have her do what I did for that piece. I played Cabassa, Gong, Suspended Cymbal, Taiko Drums, Wood Block, AND 4 MALLETS ON THE MARIMBA. Have her do that in that piece. She'll move it to the hardest instruments.
"Maracas. How hard could it be?" You need to get the rhythms right because when you shake them for straight 8th notes, sometimes its delayed.
Crash cymbals. They're heavy and you sometimes need gloves so the leather straps don't burn your hands. And you need to hit them at certain angles to have a good sound.
Triangle. Listen to Night In Bald Mountain. Listen to the triangle. Thats all im gonna say.
so go ahead Miss Dumb Mojo, please keep dissing all of the percussion section instruments.
As someone who plays the drumset, I look at a xylophone and I instantly know I don't want any part of that.
I totally agree, marimba is my main instrument and it takes a long time to get used to playing with 3 or 4 mallets. Also, the auxiliary may look easy, but it can get very challenging. I would like to see a non-percussionist try to do a roll on a triangle.
*DumbMojo:* * Says the ukulele is easy to play *
*Me, a ukulelist:* * expects TwoSet to agree with them *
*TwoSet:* * defends ukulele honor *
*Me:* THIS IS WHAT I LIVE FOR!!!
ukelele is literally easier guitar
I mean I'm a ukulele player and I agree with them lol
EXACTLY!!! I FEEL SO LOVED
Do you know Feng E?
Yeah... The ukulele is easy to play
😂😂
BRO IM INSTANTLY FRIENDS WITH YOU IF YOU PLAY UKULELE
This is like a high-school presentation made by a non-musician the night before it was due.
High school eleventh hour presentations are better..
As a percussionist, I can confirm that mallet instruments are easy to play a note on, but hard to make them sound good.
As someone who has played the clarinet, saxophone, and recorder before, I can say that in some ways, the recorder is much MUCH more difficult.
The embouchure of a reed instrument is pretty difficult to learn, but it becomes like sort of a reflex with time. It’s not something you can forget easily. The recorder (as far as I know) doesn’t have a very complex embouchure in comparison, however the way you differentiate notes (tongue them basically) is almost exactly the same.
But, while the clarinet and the sax require tedious breath control, the recorder requires waaaayyyyyy more. I respect whoever can keep their breath control while playing the recorder.
And if anyone reading this wants to learn a reed instrument, I have two tips.
1. play recorder first. I promise it’ll make it much easier
2. 👏 P R A C T I C E 👏
"Of course it's hard to be good with English, but learning the alphabet will take no time at all."
wonder why im not that good, i have such a flaw
Even the alphabet would be hard. I tried to learn russian, i barely memorized their alphabet LOL
youtube is easy, you just talk
@@signup4146 k, do it
Same logic of this video
*"we're not a roasting channel, we're a simmering channel"*
- Eddy Chen, 2020
I paused at 8:25, haven’t gotten to #1 yet but I’m gonna guess triangle.
the tambourine (its actually called pandeiro) is a core part of the samba genre and is one of the hardest to play in a pagode group, followed by the tamborim, cavaquinho, and so on, this just makes every brazillian cry
"the ukelele only has four strings so it's easier"
Watchmojo low key dissing violins AND bass.
Davie504 wants to know WMs Location!
Davie and TwoSet should just straight up set their differences aside and join forces to diss the sh*t out of WM in the name of all the musicians and instruments' honor insulted by WM.
DumbMojo is both NOT EPIC and LAMENTABLE
And the cello and viola my sister was like MMM CELLOS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS
Ok a violin player is triggered here.
And cellos.... we ignore violas
"And you well... Shake them."
And I just push keys on my piano.
And I put my fingers on the holes of my tin whistle or press buttons on a flute.
And I just move my slide on my trombone.
And I just press strings and strum them on my guitar
And I just press buttons on the french horn
And I just press keys on my clarinet
I played the vibraphone all throughout high school. Didn’t take me too long to get through the basics. My first year I only did the warm ups on the marimba and played the percussion instruments the rest of the year, but my second year I got to play the vibraphone and I had a bit of trouble because they immediately got me playing with 4 mallets and I had to move from chord to chord really fast. So, I had a lot of trouble learning how to move my mallets different distances and keeping making it intuitive to hit for different notes at the same time.
Overall, I would say that it isn’t too hard to learn the basics though, especially if your already familiar with piano playing.
"and well... just shake it" ok i'll just blow air into the clarinet.
“There’s not much to the xylophone”
*proceeds to show image of a five octave marimba*
also rose wood lmao
The comment was correct, the accompanying footage wasn't. It''s all about the baseline. "Scaling" is another thing all together. Going from 2 to 4 is not twice as difficult with that instrument.
Dude I literally can't with Mojo
"Piano is also easy to play, just sit in a stool and hit those piano keys": DumbMoJo
Theres way more to learning piano than just "yeah press keys"
You have to learn everything.
@@neoagent3 I so agree
@@neoagent3 he is just saying it ironically, refering to the ukelele
That just... I’m triggered by this comment
@@PancakeTheKat sAME ;-;
5:00 “you simply stick it in your mouth and blow.”
*that can be interpreted in other ways*
Xylophone being one of the easiest makes me immediately think of “danse bohemian” by Randall standridge
Ukulele is easy to learn. Took me about 3 hours. And no, it's not because I've been playing guitar for 17 years. I'm just a prodigy.
i cant tell if you’re being sarcastic or not lol
@@luno1io129 I am lol
@@luno1io129 I mean, it did only take me a couple hours, but it's because I've been playing guitar. Not because I'm a prodigy lol
haha thanks for clarifying
@•°ms potter°• nope. I play ukulele. Just making a joke lol
"Ah yea the xylophone is pretty easy" _shows footage of a MARIMBA, being played with 4 MALLETS_ It even said marimba in the f***ing title card!! ._.
"Ah yes the tambourine is very easy" _shows footage of a beatring_ Beatring doesn't have a head! Tambourine does!
"Ah yes cymbals is easy" _shows footage of clash cymbals, one of the HARDEST percussion techniques to pick up for beginners_ ..
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
No one understands how insanely difficult producing consistent, good crashes on crash cymbals is. It's super fucking hard and you usually only get 1 crash in a movement. It's probably the most underrated skill even by some percussionists.
Not only that, but they dont seem to understand that being a percussionist means you have to be able to play all of them.
@@JohnDoe-pj2vw Holy crap,how many percussion instruments are there?
Underrated comment right here. I have played percussion for twelve years. As soon as I saw the title of this vid I said, “well time to cry”.
Lamentable!
3:35 I'm a percussionist and that was very SACRILEGIOUS
For the triangle, in my school band, we are playing this song called Shipwrecked and one of our percussionists has to play the triangle kind of like squeezing it for two 8th notes then letting it go for two 8th notes. It’s not difficult for him cuz he’s the one who actually practices, but I’ve thought of it a pretty difficult to play. In my opinion, all percussion is hard. I play the clarinet and it’s easy one you know what you are doing, but for some people it’s difficult cuz of all the keys and fingerings and air control. I can’t see my self playing percussion cuz I’m so used to wind instruments. Props to all you percussionists out there 👏🏼
"Of course it's easy to play any instrument badly" - DumbMojo in a nutshell
I played the “Screeching Drunk Tomcats version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” very well on the violin after only a month or so of my grandfather, who doesn’t even play the violin that well, exasperatedly trying to teach me the violin. I never touched a violin after that.
Classical Singer: What about the voice? Is that easy or hard?
DumbMojo: The voice is an instrument?
YES! Though as a vocalist, I will say it is simultaneously the easiest and the hardest as most instruments were based on the voice. Everyone can sing, but there are very very very few operatic singers in comparison.
Precisely. Anybody has the ability to sing. Only a select few know how to master it.
Mojo: "anyone can sing! It's an easy instrument. But the mechanics are hard"
Cocobarbarian true it does sound that way I am just of a mind that all singing is beautiful. It is an expression of self, but operatic singing and other such professional singing is beautiful on another level
Don't give them ideas.. O.O
That moment when my small towns percussionists get mentioned in one of my favorite youtubers videos
Bruh it takes years and hard dedication to master the xylophone It shocks me that they would even put it in that list. And percussion isn’t just hitting and shaking things unlike dumbmojo thinks and being a percussion student who plays who practice percussion agitates me so much.
"Percussion is Easy"
Me, a Tabla player- Yeah, we'll see about that
Us taiko players will back you up.
Mokko Us Daff players will back you up as well
Any percussionist will back you up, it’s hard
Takadimi bro 🔥🔥🔥
TI DAK DA TA DA TI DI DA DAK
My perspective as a percussionist is this: yes, some percussion instruments, like the egg shaker, are not very hard to learn or play. We can all agree on that. But, NO percussionist plays only the egg shaker. How about maracas, vibraslap, cowbell, woodblock, temple blocks, suspended cymbal, crash cymbals, toms, snare drum, bass drum, ratchet, gong, slide whistle, triangle, tambourine, timpani, bells, xylophone, chimes, marimba, vibraphone, steel pan, congas, bongos, and castanets, just for starters? Each instrument has its own technique and mallet requirements, so the thing that makes percussion hard is not how hard each individual instrument is, rather how many we have to know how to play. And yes, I am lightly offended by this video. But who cares? Real musicians appreciate every instrument in the band.
And about that xylophone comment, if you’re playing xylophone in a band or orchestra and you miss a note, literally everyone in the hall hears it. It’s not something you can afford to miss notes playing.
And one last gripe: they showed a clip of a bunch of kids playing xylophones, and then immediately switched to a clip of somebody playing MARIMBA. They don’t even know the difference between the two, so they (DumbMojo) have absolutely no authority in making this video.
Me a percussionist just realized how many instruments I play
I am a percussionist and you are completely right
As a percussionist myself, you have only spelled facts
Speaked*
The video is mostly a joke... You probably shouldn't take it too seriously. They pretty much picked the most easily offended groups. Awkwardly they avoided bass and electric guitar despite them both being nearly as easy as any ukulele/banjo/lute instrument. Assuming because Davie has a hard on for acting like a dumb ass and pretending his one note nonsense "bass skills," are greater than classical music.
Anyway, hate to break it to you but most percussions are very easy... Unless you're performing on like a 75+ piece kit in a progressive multi genere band going as hard core as like death metal to as chill as caribbean tunes... I don't think you should expect people to think your job is very hard. If you get THIS offended, well there is probably a reason for it.
2:51- I tries to play the ukulele, and in a few weeks I was just getting used to the strings!!🤣
I think that what they said about the ukulele is so true. It’s very easy to learn the basics! I picked it up in an afternoon, and I’m no Ling Ling!
I tend to agree, but learning even a few chord shapes and clean changes is going to take more than a couple of hours.
For the people who say first
*WHY AREN’T YOU PRACTICING*
I finished it before watching it:)
I sat on my guitar
well guess what your making it hard to practice
with your pieces!
Hey Fred, I’m a huge fan
Okay, sure. I'm a classical orchestral percussionist who spent three years as the head of a world percussion ensemble. Let's get into it.
Xylophone - reading music and learning key placement is a big hurdle for beginners. Any tonal instrument will have this. For xylophone players, choosing the mallet you use is important because it's the only way you have to change the timbre. If you've ever wanted to spend hours researching plastics, resins, rubber thicknesses, yarns, and various types of wood, this is the instrument for you. Xylophones also have fairly narrow bars for each note while also being very horizontally wide. However, many musicians will perform on a venue-provided instrument rather than traveling with one, and there is no standardized size. You need to re-learn the distance between notes on the fly every time you play on a different xylophone, which can make it hard to build muscle memory.
Maracas - rhythmic accuracy on the maracas is extremely difficult because the weight of the beads inside will determine the time between when you move the maraca and when you hear its sound. Sharp, distinct sounds require precise wrist flicks, which take a lot of practice to learn to control the dynamics of. One of the hardest things to do on maracas is to create odd-numbered rhythm patterns, like two sixteenth notes connected to an eighth note. This is because the sound happens when the beads hit the edge of the maraca, so you need to get the beads high enough inside the maraca that they can come back down without making them go so high as to hit the back and ruin the rhythm, all while keeping it in time.
Cymbals - they're showing and talking about two different types of cymbal here. A pair of hand-held crash cymbals are hard to play properly because if you just clap them together like one of the monkey toys, you will profoundly crunch the sound. You need to hit them together and then separate them apart in one continuous movement so the sound can resonate, but if they rub together there will be a loud and unpleasant scraping sound. Quickly repeating hits at low dynamics without crunching the sound is one of the hardest things you can do on the instrument. The suspended cymbal requires an understanding of the mallet you use, and if your piece moves between distinct hits and smooth rolls, you will need to rapidly change mallets during the performance. Dynamics control on suspended cymbal is very challenging for beginners, as the choice of mallets and the size of the cymbal will affect how long it takes to reach different dynamic levels over the course of a roll, and good players will look at the dynamics a roll is supposed to begin at and understand their cymbal well enough to judge how much earlier than written to come in to create the composer's written effect.
Bongos - bongos have three main striking timbres, each with their own technique, and if you cannot play them all then you are not playing bongos. Bass is in the middle of the drum and can use the palm of the hand or the fingers depending on preference, and the challenge is to avoid a flat or deadened sound, which can happen if your hand stays on the drum for too long or if you hit too close to the dead center. Tone is on the edge, and is what people typically think of as playing bongos. Slaps are a higher-pitched sound that is often louder, played close to the edge. Getting a good slap sound requires a knowledge of the speed required as well as how to properly cup the fingers, and it is the hardest sound to produce on the instrument. It isn't uncommon for beginner bongo players to have swollen or dislocated finger joints or to experience fractured or broken fingers as they learn this technique, and many beginner bongos players will bind their fingers with medical tape to avoid injury as they learn.
Tambourine - tambourines combine the hardest part of the bongos with the hardest part of maracas. Tambourines have bass, tone, and slap techniques, and you can also shake them to get just the sound of the shakers without the drum tone. Slaps continue to be difficult, as is judging the timing of your shaking to produce an even, consistent, on-tempo rhythm. Depending on the region of music you're playing, tambourines also add finger and hand rolls. Finger rolls are also present in Turkish drumming and are easy to understand the concept of but difficult to keep steady and consistent because some fingers of the hand tend to be stronger than others. Hand rolls are a full-hand movement that comes from the wrist, and have similar issues with dynamic consistency and rhythmic evenness in addition to requiring a lot of stamina. Tambourines are also deceptively heavy, so developing the stamina just to hold it and keep it in motion for an entire performance can be challenging for newer players.
Triangle - any time you have a metal instrument being played with a metal mallet, you are moments away from a timbre disaster. The hardest part of a triangle is to avoid excessively abrasive sounds to keep it feeling light instead of clang-ey. Hitting a triangle off-center will tend to make it rotate on its string making it hard to play repeated notes in tempo, so there's a surprising amount of physical accuracy required. In more advanced repertoire, you can play a triangle with one hand and mute it with the other to create more rhythmic complexity, which is hard to get the hang of initially.
Preach
Hey thanks a lot man you're speaking for all of us. I was going to write out myself what makes me crazy about the percussion part but my English is just too bad!
There is just to much wrong in that mojo video especially the cymbal and triangle part drives me the most. I played Schostakowitsch 10 cymbals & TamTam and here in germany we don't have quality percussive stuff in highschool. So I learned the part at home without feeling for the instruments that I had to play, coming to meet the orchestra for one week of intensive rehearsing an just knowing when to play. After screwing up im the crash rehearsal, luckily there was a professional percussionist showing me the important things on my instruments and I can tell ist f**ing hard
They are comparing instruments though, not roles in an orchestra. Also, yes, any instrument can be hard, no-one ever disputed that, but is it hardER than other instruments? if you had to rank the difficulty of instruments, by a metric such as, how long would it take to sound acceptable to the untrained ear when playing standard repertoire, all the ones there, are probably less hard than most other popular instruments, which makes them easier. You can, for example, sound acceptable to the untrained ear in triangle instantly (you need to be able to count but even if you can't people might not notice as long as you play on the beat) wheras with violin or sax it would take much longer
Whao, learned so much from reading this! 🤯
wow I didnt know there wasnt a standardized size for marimbas and xylophones, I dont play them very much tho Im more of the drumset and hand percussion. Great information anyways, thanks.
As a percussionists i feel personally attacked
I am genuinely shocked that they did not put bass in this haha. At least bass gang dodged that bullet.
Im sure, if they did it, all the Davie504 fans would get really offended
I am a percussionist and this is insulting at a level that goes beyond personnal
Same! At this point I’m furious!!
I'm not even a percussionist (I'm a flautist) and I'm offended
Same. I am a drummer and though I don't know much but that was unnecessary. She didn't even know what she was saying or the point she was trying to get across. She was repeating herself over and over again without giving an explanation
Same. Respect the percussionists! No wait, RESPECT ALL MUSICIANS!
That’s so true. I may be in my 1st year but dam it ain’t easy idk how my hands and feet are still alive considering how lazy I am
Let's be honest here, all instruments are difficult to play if you want to play one professionally. Percussion, difficult. Woodwinds, difficult. Brass, difficult. Strings, difficult.
Basically, almost every instrument requires a different set of skills.
Yeah, but I think this video is just trying to get ppl with no music background to start an instrument with, and some are easier to start with in terms of understanding basics or producing a good sound..
A very particular set of skills, skills you acquire over a very long career, skills that make you a nightmare for people like DumbMojo.
@@ondrrejk kazoo can still sound sick tho
@@ondrrejkczcams.com/play/PLlTTNxyBD5Np43flqKvYlhPXBwkPB2ogn.html *proof*
Requires different technique and skills
How dare she roast a xylophone, one of the hardest instruments in percussion, SACRILEGIOUS.
You guys should do a video of trying percussion instruments and if you just barely hit the marching cymbals wrong it'll bruise you like crazy
As a percussionist, i would LOVE to have a “special talk” with whoever wrote that script
Technically the ideas and the list items are usually submitted by viewers, then voted upon to determine their placement in the list. WM writes the script but their viewer base is largely responsible for their content.
That's a really simplified way to put it, but it doesn't excuse their ignorance in many subjects.
When you do, please record it because I’m going to want to watch as you put her in her place because she is obviously clueless!
(Holds gun) I just want to talk to him
As a recorder player... same. But I think as a percussionist you are even more triggered...
Yes. I would like to talk to them too, I am a percussionist too
I'm a percussionist. My instructor in high school made me learn every different way to play the tambourine. Then I had to learn a tambourine solo. That was the most difficult experience I've had.
Thumb roll gang
@@IETass Most underrated comment of 2020. If the head isn't waxed properly, or your thumbs too dry or too damp, you're screwed. You don't know unless you know.
*cue memories of hour long lessons of literally just thumb rolls*
Floor gang anthem
I.E. Tass THUMB ROLL GANG
I HAD TO DO A TAMBOURINE SOLO TOO. Honestly went into it thinking it wouldn’t be hard and probably unimportant, but during practice, my conductor was telling me how he wrote the tambourine solo to stand out from everything else and that it was one of the most important instruments in the piece and I was stumped 😂
triangle being number one is not suprising at all. people think its super easy because "oh you hit metal thing on triangular metal thing" even though something as little as putting a little velocity into each hit making it create a ding sound everyone thinks of makes it difficult already, but making sure you do the rythms right while watching the conductor and reading your music takes it to a whole nother level
they roast the xylophone (which stands out in any setting, orchestra, marching, anything) and proceeds to show a 5 octave marimba from what i assume is a vic firth video. i hate it when people cant tell the difference.
All instruments have different learning curves, to compare them is just plain stupid.
they have different learning curves. Different = comparable
They are all hard in different ways
It can be easy like if you know how to play saxophone, you will be able to play alto and bari sax as well as a recorder and song flute. Or at least that’s how it is for me
@Elijah Kim 김기성 Most instruments require some skill. At any level you should be challenging your self. If you have been playing guitar for 5 years, or piano for 5 years, you should still challenge your self the same. Just find the instrument you enjoy and practice.
"We aren't saying these instruments are easy, rather they are simply easier to learn and play than others"
*Ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor*
“We’re not saying that these instruments are easy but like, they actually are, lol”
As yes, musicians make music.
The Axolotl Really, dude?! That’s absolutely insane!
more like "I'm not saying the floor is made out of floor, but the floor here is made out of floor"
I guess it really depends on the person. The first instrument I was introduced to was piano as a little kid, then I wanted to try electric guitar and I practiced and practiced and even took lessons but I just couldn’t do it as well as piano. Another friend of mine on the other hand, sucked at piano but was great at bass and guitar, and another was better at percussion and keeping rhythm.
W at drumming up emotion to keep the audience engaged.
reminds me of the hours I spent on practicing the tamborine of the Carmen Suite.
"tambourine is easy" go watch a video of a person playing tambourine in a samba or pagode song and then come back, I'll wait
Thumb roll. If they don't know that standard technique, they don't know what they are talking about.
Agreed.
@@briandegitz8978 Yes. I just got one recently and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to do it.
@@Tyranitar66501 make sure there's a bit of wax or roughness to the skin, makes it much easier
@@briandegitz8978 Ok I'll try. I just don't want my hands blistered. And when I do standard rolls (not thumb) my arm gets tired. Am I doing this right?
when I was in band, we didn't have enough percussionists so the teacher had some flutes and clarinets play the instruments. This one kid was unlucky enough to play the triangle, and every sectional, the teacher spent half of it trying to get her to hold the triangle right, play the right rhythm, play the right tone, etc. Triangle isn't easy. You have to hit it at a precise angle to get the sound you want. 45 degrees is the sweet spot, but it depends on the piece you're playing and the conductor's preference. not to mention how stressful it was. the triangle's sound cuts through the sound of the band, so if you fuck up, the whole band stops and stares at you. there are also many sticks to hit the triangle with, and you have to use the right one to play the note depending on the dynamic. There are lighter sticks for piano, and heavier ones for forte. You also have to control the pitch, tone, and the amount of ringing, and know when the muffle it and when to let it ring.
THANK YOU
Of all the players in our wind band at school, the percussionists were the best musicians. And this was a good-quality band with Grade 8 players.
I just know it's hard cause a lot of peices for it (that I've heard) have so many rests and that must be abbouong to count
I knew it wasn't easy but holy crap that's a lot more to do than I thought.
I actually thought it was easy. That sounds tough though, thank you!
"the xylophone is very easy to pick up and play." *marimba*
As a percussionist we cannot let this slidee
5th easiest instrument: *Recorder*
Lucy Horsch: *"Am I a joke to you?"*
"Lucie"
Luci
Kyrabel aWkWaRd because that’s not how you spell it either
Lol what about that kid who did krusty krab on recorder
@@potatopotato0715 he is just average I guess, but he is a funny guy
4:59
"just blow, and voilà, you're playing music."
"just grab a bow and a violin, pull the bow and voilà, you're playing music."
"And violà, you're playing the accompaniment."
Yup, just grab some music in alto clef & a "big violin" and... VOILA!!! You're playing VIOLA!!!
Screeeeeee!!!
Just sit down at a piano, press some keys, and violà, you’re making music!
4:34 I'm really triggered with this statement. I mean, I could be wrong but the basic notes for almost all instruments are just the same, yes. But to play a piece or a music, it needs time and practice. Seriously, mojo is a piece of crap that they just find stupid content on google and make a video. The stupider, the better.
The fat that the tambourine and bongos are under the kazoo makes me question a lot of things also I’ve been playing mallet instruments like xylo marimba and vibes for about 4-5 years now and idk where they get the idea that it is easy
@TwoSetViolin The Piano for me was super easy to learn. I learned the Electric Guitar after piano and then the Flute, then Recorder, then Clarinet and then the 6 and 12 holes Ocarinas and then went on to learn some more harder and more difficult to play musical instruments like the Harmonicas, the Xylophones and the Violin and the Ukulele and the Drums and the Tambourine.
NERD
Orchestra-level piano partitions are hard, but the piano itself is a pretty easy instrument imo.
What i often hear as a piano player:
"YoU jUsT hAvE tO pReSs A kEy!"
KT321- Music as a pianist, i often hear that kind of BS. Don't know why DumbMojo didnt place it here. It is quite hard, especially if you are jumping between octaves.
I always say to them "If it's soo easy Play fur elise" they attempt. They suddenly say "iM nOt a pIaNiSt i cAnT dO iT"
The Retro Egg yeah hate ppl who are not being honest like this.
What I hear as a percussionist: “Uh YoU jUsT hIt WiTh StIcK aNd SlAp WiTh HaNd HaHaHaHa Us AiR iNsTrUmEnTs ArE bEtTeR lOl LOL”
@@jacobbau8328 Have they ever heard of MARCHING BAND
I'M IN ONE
IT BURNS MY HANDS
IT'S DEATH
THEY DON'T KNOW THE PAIN
ALSO A DRUMMER
THE PAIN OF SPEED
THE BASS DRUM
WILL KILL YOUR FUCKING THIGHS
Showing a marimba while talking about the xylophone is basically like calling a cello a violin
I've seen a shocking number of musicians struggle laying down a basic shaker track. It's harder than it seems, getting the feel and the groove right takes a bit of practice if you're not used to it.
Bongos. OHHHH BOY. I remember being a naive kit player in high school and thinking I could just hop on some latin percussion like no problem. Turns out, there's a whole different vocabulary to learn and technique to master. The bottom line is, treat every instrument with respect, they are all challenging and worthwhile.
Trumpet: you blow and press on buttons, that's so EASSYYYY!!!!!
As a percussionist in an orchestra, you need to know how to play EVERY PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT YOU SEE
IT’S NOT THAT EASY OKAY?
LING LING GRANGER oh yeah you’re right haha, sorry I didn’t specify😅
I mean like every percussion instrument the orchestra has😂
WE know Jennifer!!!!!!
but...watchmojo never said that its easy to be percussionist/knowing how to play SEVERAl of percussion instruments, they just said that individually, certain percussion instruments are just easier to pick up and learn reasonably well, than other instruments. But obviously that knowing a ton of them all together is really hard
Calm down and hunt down my reply to other cry baby percussionists.
Yea like every instrument in the percussion family used in orchestra
WatchMojo logic:
Instrument A is top easiest instrument because while difficult to master, it is easy to pick up
Instrument B is top hardest instrument because while easy to pick up, it is difficult to master
p r o p a g a n d a :b
Moral of the story: the skill floor does not define the skill ceiling.
you guys are wise and precious… as usual 😎