I took piano in college...and failed to learn it. Because I failed to practice, the root cause of which (in my mind) was the utterly uninteresting and unfamili

I took piano in college...and failed to learn it. Because I failed to practice, the root cause of which (in my mind) was the utterly uninteresting and unfamiliar drills. Now drills are going to be boring, but when there wasn't a single piece I recognized, your 10th time through "Turkey in the hay" is both uninteresting and hard to know how your screwing up. I made more progress when I spent two weeks on my own trying moonlight sonata. I dont recommend that piece to start with, and I do recommend a diversity to practice on, but finding tunes at a suitable difficulty that you KNOW can make a big difference - hearing what's wrong, getting a thrill when it sounds close enough to recognizable - these were completely missing in my class, and while I likely still wouldn't have put in enough practice time (dating had more thrills) it would have been much easier. I've been kicking around the idea of taking it up again for 20 years, and this is the one change I would make.