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When I was a small child I begged my mother to ask my teacher to excuse me from school music lessons. They were recorder lessons. And 20 children with recorders
by satori99 4y ago
When I was a small child I begged my mother to ask my teacher to excuse me from school music lessons. They were recorder lessons. And 20 children with recorders were giving me a literal headache every week.
My teacher excused me but reached out to my mother with the business card of a piano teacher she knew, as she considered music to be important.
I am eternally grateful that she did, and that I gave it a try, because even though I was never going to concert-grade piano player, it did mean I had enough music theory knowledge to play around meaningfully with early midi sequencers -- and those skills landed me a professional job in radio production straight out of high-school.
- Fnoord 4y agoI've always been someone who found listening to music important (my father's hobby). 3 kids in elementary school went to 'music school'. I found them posh. I tried once, tagging along, but I guess my ADHD-like symptoms didn't work out (NB: ~quarter of century later I got an autism diagnosis). I also found the teacher very authoritarian. That's the thing: if people were friendly with me they could reach for the stars, but that cold authoritarian method just didn't work with me. Fast forward a few years, I wanted to get into producing music in the 90s, but I could never understand how to connect a synth to something else. I didn't know which cables I needed, what they'd cost, etc. No (IRL) network about music production. Failed. I consider my story being the nemesis of yours. Kudos!