Witch do you think is harder to play a guitar or the drums?

Question:I play both, and I would say that drums are harder cos you have to dolike four different things at the same time - bass pedal, hi-hat pedal, 1 stick on the hi-hat and one on the snare drum just to get a basic beat, before you get into more complicated rhythms. With a guitar, you've only got to worry about 2 hands!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I play both, and I would say that drums are harder cos you have to dolike four different things at the same time - bass pedal, hi-hat pedal, 1 stick on the hi-hat and one on the snare drum just to get a basic beat, before you get into more complicated rhythms. With a guitar, you've only got to worry about 2 hands!

It depends on how well you're used to in music, I've been playing Violin for a long time & it just took me 3 months to learn Guitar.
I know Violin and Guitar are a world apart but still it was easy then for me.

Who are you calling a witch?

i think everyone has their own instrument with which they feel more at home and capable ... ive been playing guitar for around 15 years and although i love drums, i havent yet got my head around drumming in its conventional sense. however, a lot of that has to do with spending time around the instrument. i dont have a drum kit, so any time i have a go is at my band's rehearsal room and 90% of the time theres someone around. i think to truly get to grips with an instrument, it needs to be yours, you need to know it inside out, back to front until it becomes an extension of your thoughts. i thought i couldnt mix-DJ until i bought my own equipment ... now im very capable and people tell me im good! again, thats the difference between trying someone elses kit whilst they were around, and having my own kit to mess around with in my own time. ultimately you have to decide which instrument you would rather invest in ... if you can afford to invest in both, then youre truly lucky and should probably do so. i think a lot of people take guitar over drums not just because its portrayed as a more glamourous instrument, but because it is ultimately much more affordable.
but then i look at my drummer's perspective ... he drums like a man possessed and always hits the beat to a song, but if you try talking to him about chords, notation etc ... he is lost in an instant. he'll mess around strumming one-string riffs now and then, but its not often and its not what you'd call technical playing ... so he would argue no doubt that drumming is much easier because he doesnt have to learn to understand chording, melody etc ... he just hits his drums!

Drums, you must think in multi rhythym and play the same with all four limbs, and then some.

I'd say guitar, if you make it harder. Someone said you only have to worry about two hands. If you get to being a shred guitarist, you pretty much have to worry about 10 fingers, and sometimes they get going really fast. Also, you have to be more accurate. on drums you got a bigger target to hit, haha. To be a great guitarist, you have to practice 63 hours a day like John Petrucci. He had to play 400 notes a second to warp through time to get in that many hours a day. Ridiculous.

But honestly, I think they're equally hard. If you spend 10 years dedicated to learning guitar, and the same amount of time dedicated to learning drums, shouldn't you technically be equal at them? You can't really measure how good you are, unless it's by comparing your skill to others. In that case guitar would be harder, as you got a LOT of people to compare yourself to.

Drums is harder to get started on if u are not so uncordinated