I took piano lessons at age 9 for about a 6 months but it never really took and I didn't practice. I played trombone for 3 years junior high, but didn't really

I took piano lessons at age 9 for about a 6 months but it never really took and I didn't practice. I played trombone for 3 years junior high, but didn't really practice then, either. Then I took music theory and composition classes in college, which revealed to me that thinking in intervals and scale degrees made way more sense to me than staves and note names. At that point bass and guitar clicked and really complemented that way of thinking. I should also add I'm really only competent at one instrument which is bass guitar, probably because I played in a church praise band for a bit which made me actually have a reason to practice.