Do you think it's harder to learn music or drawing? ("Music" can be anything, playing an instrument, composition, production, whatever)I think my musician friend doesn't really believe me when I tell him how absurdly difficult drawing is. I don't think you see amateur guitar players struggle for years making no progress at all, the way you see a lot of /beg/ artists do. I don't really want to turn it into a pissing contest but it really seems to me like there's something about drawing that makes it objectively harder than a lot of other creative skills.
I think it's pointless to compare them.
I think music is way harder, drawing is one of the easiest and cheapest hobbies to get into. You're taught to scribble at age 2, and you definitely have pens and paper at disposal at any age, especially in your early years when you're taught crafts and forced inside. Music however? Nobody really has an actual instrument at home as a kid, and if you had a toy piano you probably slammed keys till your parents regretted the purchase, it requires more mathematical knowlage for a kid that they simply aren't exposed to. What's the cheapest, real instrument you could buy right now? A 15 euro Honer C harmonica? And how many of us have that?
>>7968387true, learning music is incredibly boring process if you don't enjoy it. i never managed to pass week 1
>>7968378as someone that learned the guitar, I think music has an easier entry but a higher ceilingyou can learn a few chords in a couple of weeks and have fun playing actual songs, while drawing is a bit harsher in that a couple of weeks of practice won't amount to much
>>7968378Depends a lot on the music and instrument really. I taught music for many years and I could get someone playing a folk or rock song on guitar to a decent level within 2 weeks or so. Enough to entertain. Much harder for piano, and I don't know if I could ever teach someone to create art worth looking at within 2 weeks.Semi related but one thing me and my musician buddies discuss a lot: its easy to get people to give you 5 seconds of their time to look at and appreciate your art, but much more difficult to ask for 3 minutes to listen to a song.
>>7968378Based on the other kids in school, drawing was impossible for some people. Only class where some people refused to even try.
Interestingly I have felt similarities between the texturing of drawing and sound.
>>7968378>Do you think it's harder to learn music or drawing?You can learn to make EDM and Vocaloid music in a few days, just learn the basics and practice.
>>7968378I don't think playing an instrument is that hard but composing AND playing music that people actually like is comparable to drawing.
>>7968378The act of drawing isn't difficult, what's actually difficult is problem-solving the correct drawing process, internalizing said process, developing 3D thinking, and then being consistent with it. What filters out most people is when they realize that they have to constantly work at their drawing skills and that it will take a long time to achieve what they want. They tend to think drawing is just something you learn overnight or is something you're born with.Playing a musical instrument is much harder as humans have always had a relationship with drawing since our primal days, whereas instruments came with the development of industry and the growth of civilization, which came much later.
>>7968813this.>i do both, so yeah.
>>7968831but you don't need an instrument to make musicplus there's really old bone flutes too
From what I've seen, every culture on Earth has at least /int/ level music. But some only have /beg/ level drawing, so drawing is harder overall. However on an individual level which you find harder varies a lot so it doesn't really matter.
>>7968378If you really want to equate the 2, music has to start from composing. Playing a piece is like doing a master copy of someone else's work which removes the creativity part of the process.
>>7968378they are both easy.
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