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also which is the easiest to play?

Since I play all of the referenced instruments, in my opinion guitar is easiest since to play a chord all you do is hold down the right strings and strum. Bass is harder since there are no chords and you sometimes play counter to what the guitar is doing. Drums is probably the next hardest. Contrary to what everyone seems to think it’s more than your hands, it’s your feet as well. Each hand and foot are doing something completely different. This takes a lot of discipline to get right and a lot of practice. Piano is probably the hardest since each hand is doing something completely different. To go even further think about this, literally each finger is doing something completely different and independent of the other.

Hi all!

Is it possible to learn how to play a musical instrument (e.g. guitar) without having ANY musical education?

Thanks in advance!

Even with tab, you need an understanding of music. I would at least get educated on the basics: Time signatures, note symbols/duration, simple theory, key signatures. It will be very helpful in situations where you’re jamming with a band and someone wants you to play a particular note(s) in a specific 4/4 rhythm – you’re going to look like an idiot if you can’t.

I want to learn a musical instrument, I am however torn between the ukulele and a 3/4 size guitar. any advise?

I’d go with the guitar.

Ukeleles are fairly limited in the sounds they can create, whereas guitars can sound like ukeleles AND *all kinds* of other ways.
Guitars can also be played in quite complicated ways or in very simple ones, so you could just stick with the simpler ones first then be in a good place to go to more and more guitar things. (And once you learn even simple guitar, it would be easy to pick up a ukelele and play some stuff, though it wouldn’t work as easily in the other direction.)

My 2 cents anyway (and I have played both a little),

Diane B.

The vibrator creates the sound waves, this will be from different sources depending on the instrument. In the case of the guitar, its the strings, in wind instruments, it’s the air from the mouth.
The guitar can be used as an example, BUT it MUST be an accoustic guitar, not an electric guitar.