If anything, the experience made you dislike piano more than if you'd never had the lessons. So it's not only a waste of time, but it damaged you in personal ways and ruined any potential interest you may have had for music later in life.
I've seen this happen so many times that it thinking about it now really bugs me. Children being forced to play boring things they're not interested in just doesn't work, in my opinion.
Maybe if parents are determined to produce a child prodigy, that's what has to be done (wouldn't know) but shit...who wants to inflict that on a kid? Who's probably going to rebel the first chance they get.
If a kid is genuinely interested in music, I think they have to be taught in a way that's engaging by playing music they enjoy themselves, for it to work. Otherwise it's just a nightmare.
Maybe people who don't play music are under the impression that you have to go through years of boredom to get a payoff in the end. Imo, that's completely untrue. It's the opposite.
That's been my experience anyway; I stuck with it because I loved to play and I was learning music that *I* liked. Had I been forced to play boring shite I had no passion for (like so many kids are) I would have quit like they did.
Should parents force children to learn music
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If anything, the experience made you dislike piano more than if you'd never had the lessons. So it's not only a waste of time, but it damaged you in personal ways and ruined any potential interest you may have had for music later in life.
I've seen this happen so many times that it thinking about it now really bugs me. Children being forced to play boring things they're not interested in just doesn't work, in my opinion.
Maybe if parents are determined to produce a child prodigy, that's what has to be done (wouldn't know) but shit...who wants to inflict that on a kid? Who's probably going to rebel the first chance they get.
If a kid is genuinely interested in music, I think they have to be taught in a way that's engaging by playing music they enjoy themselves, for it to work. Otherwise it's just a nightmare.
Maybe people who don't play music are under the impression that you have to go through years of boredom to get a payoff in the end. Imo, that's completely untrue. It's the opposite.
That's been my experience anyway; I stuck with it because I loved to play and I was learning music that *I* liked. Had I been forced to play boring shite I had no passion for (like so many kids are) I would have quit like they did.