I would suggest, if you`re in a school band, that you play trumpet, so you can be cool like me and switch to french horn!

the trombone is way easy !!!!!!!!1the trumpet is hard cause you have 3 positions and they are all high or low!!!people say the trombone is hard but it is not!!!!!i have benn playing it since i was 10 it is a piece of cake !!! take it from a pro!

hey there dont get too cocky ann!
i know a 60 year old jazz player and he played for a sweet band but still hasn`t mastered all of the notes, he is wicked at it though. although i agree it is easier than trumpet.

T-bones and Tubas rock!!!!!!

I`ve been playing trumpet for 3 yrs and recently I started the trombone. Having played the trumpet it was really easy for me to play high on the trombone, and it also helped me to play lower on the trumpet.

Hey both are really cool if you can play a brass instrument.....but i would say that trumpet is a little easier because it has a smaller mouth piece than trombone, but they`re both challengeing.....

Brass instruments have no difficult fingerings or slide positions. So that should not be taken into consideration when choosing. Trumpet players have a great deal more work when it comes to making a good sound than trombone players, because their horn has the higher overtones that when not resonating, make the horn sound very harsh. Since trombone is a lower instrument, if the overtones are not resonating properly, the horn sounds dead and flat, but not loud and raunchy like a poorly played trumpet. Trombone players have their own problems built in with their slides. On a trumpet, if you push a valve down, the note changes. On trombone, you move the slide, the note changes, but it also goes through all the notes in between. If you tongue too hard, it sounds very staccato and seperated. The trick is to get a smooth legato tongue so you can play lyrical passages smoothly, but not glissing between every not.

I have been playin the trombone for nearly 2 years, and its not 2 hard. I wanna learn the trumpet, and i blow once( a band player lend it to me), and HEY!! Its REALLI hard to play! Its mouthpiece is too small. But anyway, trombone is easier But i will learn the trumpet anyway! ( Dont just stuck with one instrument for ur whole life, but the instrument must be Brass)

I Ihave played many instruments. There are challenges to all of them. I think the hardest part about learning the trombone are the positions. Some inexperienced people will say bone is easy you just got to know 7 positions. I say 7? What about a g above mid c really sharp second? what about bflat in 5 oh wait its not(depending on the horn that note might be sharp 5 or flat 5) what about f above mid c first you say I say no its flat first just a hair. In the third set of partials why do you pull out some of the positions. What about...................

Ok so Any masters please stand up.(i slink down a little in my chair) cause i want lessons from you.

Trumpette do i need to go into the foibles of this instrument too? Look I guess the point is I believe that the trombone is the hardest instrument to play. I have played longer than some of you on this site have been alive. People tell me im good(I get paid to do it really often so maby I am a little good) but I think I am just now starting to understand some of the nuances of the bone.

Play what you enjoy the most, mess with both a little and then go with one for a while and see if you like it then stick with it, or if you dont like it that much swich. You can alwayse learn a new instrument.

Brass instruments are for the most part, pretty easy to play. There aren`t a great deal of fingerings, and unlike woodwind instruments, the horn is always the same. There is no wood that changes in different humidities, no reeds to worry about, and the notes always respond the same for one mouthpiece. For woodwind instruments, changing reeds can result in many differences in instrument tone, response, intonation, etc. And woodwind instruments are no more perfect than brass instruments (and probably less) in that they need to be adjusted for every individual note. So I think brass players should think about this next time the clarinets make a mistake or the saxes squeak.

I myself have played trumpet before and self taught it. Trombone is more visual when it comes to the slide postition and varies greatly pitch wise depending on where the slide is positioned.

Both instrument is equally the same. Both can be equally easy or difficult. As a trombone player, u must have good ears. Very accurate position of the slides. a slight change will make you sounds flat or sharp.

What i feel is that whatever it is, whatever people say playing is a piece of cake, what i can say is there`s never ending in learning. To get a good, warm, rich tone in playing is 1 big factor. Playing an instrument doesn`t means just playing notes. Playing it with feelings, with rich and broad tone is the main issue.

Well i`m a trumpet player and is still learning. =) Been playing for the past 8 years. Is good to learn many different instruments and learning to play all of them. But what i can say is...Be a master in one rather than a jack of all trades and a master of none. Learn to play 1 instrument well before learning others. If not, you will end up learning nothing in the end. If you are thinking "yes! i can play everything!" But did u ask yourself if you can play everything well?

For players,if you really want to switch instrument, get the instrument that is near your mouthpiece size like tbone and euphonium or trumpet and french horn or clarinet to saxophone. In this way, your embouchure will not change that much.

Good luck in playing!

There are some silly responses here. In my mind, no instrument is "easy." They all recquire Thousands of hours to get "good" at. You should pick the instrument that you like hear, because in the process it makes it easier for you to listen to yourself and play what you want. The first years on an instrument are usually difficult, it takes time so be patient.

There was a reply by a girl playing guitar and trombone. To her i say keep up your trombone playing daily, if you work at it daily especially the same time as your guitar you will develop better ears and your tone will improve.

Just remember to keep the sound in your head, take a deep relaxed breath and play.

i play t-bone and my sis plays trumpet. both instruments have their pros and cons so i cant really decide.

Yea, like with trombone it`s fairly easy to get a note out of it, but being in tune is harder since you have to get the position just right. I tried trumpet once and it was pretty hard to squeak a note out of that tiny mouthpiece, but it sounded somewhat in tune (keep in mind I`ve only played trumpet once, as in I played the instrument for about 20 minutes). Of course, in my opinion, trombone is soo much better, but that`s just my opinion.

(trombone player of 5 years or so) About trumpet players being able to play high on trombone. First of all, range isnt everything, if you can play really high but you have bad tone, then no one is going to listen to you, so dont get all cocky because you can play high (Good notes and high notes are very different things). Another thing is that it is much harder to go from a larger mouthpeice to a smaller mouthpeice than it is go from a small one to a larger one. I`ve tried trumpet before and it`s so much different that it hurts my head to try and play it, but I can pick up a tuba and play on it decently(even though I have no idea what I am doing on a tuba). It just seems like as far as how you are used to forming your lips and how you blow the air makes it much harder to get used to a smaller mouthpeice, you cant put air through it like a trombone. But when trumpets pick up a trombone and they play it, it isnt so bad because they can still use a more trumpety mouth formation and it will work decently(not very well, but they can do it) So being a trumpet player and being able to play high on trombone isnt a really hard thing to do. As far as one being better than the other, Im sick of this attitude that one instrument is better than others. Trumpets are NEEDED, they balance the band, same as trombone, that is why there are trombones and trumpets in every good jazz band, because they need EACH OTHER to sound good enough. But that doesnt just go for brass, why are there Tenor saxes and Alto`s in jazz bands? Because they complete each other`s sound. Thats somewhat how trombones and trumpets work together. A band is a team thing, there isnt a need to act better than someone because of your instrument. And as for one being harder than the other, thats completely subjective, a matter of opinion. So pick whatever one you like the sound of more, you will more likely be better at it.

Connor