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I took piano lessons for a few years and kind of wish I'd stuck with it, but I was never very good nor motivated. I own an upright piano (hand-me-down from my Aunt Linda) and my parents bought me a beautiful piano bench as a birthday present one year. Someday I'd like to move both into my house and take lessons again.

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I own a guitar. I bought it hoping to be able to hang with the cool kids. I couldn't even tune it, let alone play.

I think I know how to play guitar. Something to do with colors and buttons right

I used to play piano and do all that recital stuff. I used to be able to play the Parasite Eve Theme and Linus's Theme...had fun with that. But its been so long since I've touched a keyboard that I can barely remember the basics. I keep finding myself lifting my hands when I finish typing though. Old habits die hard I guess.

Man, I envy so much you canadians and americans. For you (well, maybe not all, but a nice percentage) learning to play an instrument (sometimes many!) growing up is a natural thing. A friend of mine got an american boyfriend and he could play drums at a pretty good level (Rush songs), plus he plays the guitar and once we went in a music shop and started to paly some Mozart sonata on the piano. I swear I wanted to punch him in the face. He is not a "pro" musician or something, mind you.

Here in Italy music culture is non-existant: I remember as a kid that sometimes I asked for a guitar or a keyboard and their answer was "First you learn how to play it, then we will get you one". WTF?! Now, I love my parents and they are by no mean bad ones, but if there is one thing that I regret in my life, is that I never learned to play when I was young, and they have a big responsability in that.

So I fell in love with music, then with the bass and felt the need to play it, and I bought one... at 27 (now I'm 30), with no musical training whatsoever. It's hard. Really hard, expecially considering that I like complex and technical stuff. All in all I don't think I play THAT bad and the switch to a (lined) fretless was easier than I expected, but I wonder what I would be able to do now had I started 20 years ago, and I rage.

And I have to use tabs and learn everything to memory which is a pain in the ass since I can't read sheets (try learning Hemispheres by Rush, 18 minutes and there are not two bars identical I believe...), and that has an effect on my constance (hint: is very low).

I had a brief foray into keyboards when I was 23-24 I think but without training I sounded like shit, so I stopped, and lost even more time. Now I can do some simple things (my role model is Geddy Lee after all XD), but classical tunes and anything requiring two hands is really out of my reach, but that's ok.

TL:DR; If you know how to play an instument, keep practicing, and if you have kids, surround them with music and instruments!

Lol it's funny cause bobby's parents are exactly like mine there.

Edit by noodles for...uh, I think you used a backslash or something instead of a forward slash for those italics. Derp.

It is funny NessySchu because my mom is just like yours. It's sometime embarassing when my at a new church and my mom is singing because everyone will be glacing around at my mom, and then afterwards we have to stay for forever while seemingly everyone gives her compliments.

I hate how nearly all of the songs I like, when I finally get a look at the sheet music, is much harder to play than it sounds it should be.

NoFrets, I get what you mean about the lack of music culture. I saw very little during the three years I lived in Bulgaria, though I often saw a lot of folk music and dance. If you all do not know where Bulgaria is, it is north of Greece.