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I begged my parents for an electric guitar and they bought me one. But I didn’t enjoy my first couple of guitar lessons and my parents said “Whatever, quit.”
by khazhoux 4y ago
I begged my parents for an electric guitar and they bought me one. But I didn’t enjoy my first couple of guitar lessons and my parents said “Whatever, quit.” Fast-forward my raging envy in high school at my friends shredding on stage while I could bang out a few chords.
- manmal 4y agoDo you think you‘d be great at guitar, and love playing it, if your parents had forced you to take lessons?
- khazhoux 4y agoAbsolutely. I still played at home, just without a teacher. I improved a tiny amount with all bad technique. This was the down side of lenient parents who never forced us to do things we didn’t like, and let us quit even things that were good for us.
- manmal 4y agoThanks for sharing your perspective. I started practicing electric guitar at the ripe age of 20 (with a teacher I met at compulsory army service), and after 6 years of that, played in a band for five years (including a gig in front of four thousand people). My parents only ever once saw me play live - and I think that actually helped, because I never felt forced to practice (as was the case with the piano).
- arethuza 4y agoFor some reason this reminds me of maths at university - I initially hated it (and was dreadful at it) but had to do it because there was no flexibility in the course - you had to do 3 years of general engineering maths or fail the course. I eventually ended up really liking maths and focusing on more abstract and maths heavy elements of computer science.
- beowulfey 4y agoIf you were envious in high school, why not take lessons again?