This reminds me of my elementary school years. This was in school in Japan I had to learn recorder. I sucked at it for first three years or so, felt that classr

This reminds me of my elementary school years. This was in school in Japan I had to learn recorder. I sucked at it for first three years or so, felt that classroom instruction took me nowhere getting good at it. There was a student who was good at piano routinely played after the class was over. For some reason, five others, including myself joined and started playing their recorder to that music, every time after the music class. In couple of months, I was one of the best recorder players in the class. From that experience I feel having fun is very important, and so is repetition. But also seemingfully boring practice session in class probably helped setting foundation as well. Some pain in learning process is not probably unavoidable and could even be beneficial but then it's very hard to keep yourself motivated enough to continue when it's not compulsory.