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humanodon · 3885 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument
I think there's something to this, but it's definitely a good idea to help kids understand how things like music happen and how skills take time and hard work to develop. I played sax for 10 years and the only real reason I stopped was that it's not a convenient instrument for apartment living. Also, I didn't go to a school with practice facilities, plus maintenance of the instrument cost more money that I would have willingly paid. A lot of people forget that the voice is a musical instrument and that it's the one that all other instruments emulate on some level. Besides, the more able you are to sing something, the easier it is to figure out on your instrument.