Post by joe on Jul 18, 2022 2:16:37 GMT
A recent 2022 article based on a poll on behalf of Guitar Center. Presents the parents top choices and the kid's top choices. Says 8 in 10 parents want their kids to learn to play.
nypost.com/2022/06/21/the-surprising-musical-instrument-parents-want-kids-to-learn/
I wish my mother would have forced me to play something. She was in her high school band and could play, I don't know how well, the piano, violin, and trombone. She still had her violin and trombone. The violin needed some repair, probably minor, to use it at all. The trombone was fine. I fooled around with the trombone, but I had no interest there. I was in early elementary school. I'm sure she could have introduced me to the basics, more than I got in elementary school on the basic flute. In freshman year high school a teacher gave us a "note matching" test, not sure the official name. She would play various single notes a few times and tell us what they were each time. Then she played some random ones and our test was to write down what note each one was. I failed big time. Some of the kids did real well. I think you had to make a certain score to be able to take band. A lot of kids got real discouraged if they did poorly - and a lot of parents got real mad.
When I was a little older I found a partly damaged acoustic guitar in a trash pile. Yea, it was a piece of junk - missing half the strings - but was intact other than that and it did "play". I at least took enough interest in it that I kept messing with it not having a clue what I was doing. Probably 3 more strings and it would have been "good enough" for somebody to teach me some cords. But that never happened. Oh well.
nypost.com/2022/06/21/the-surprising-musical-instrument-parents-want-kids-to-learn/
I wish my mother would have forced me to play something. She was in her high school band and could play, I don't know how well, the piano, violin, and trombone. She still had her violin and trombone. The violin needed some repair, probably minor, to use it at all. The trombone was fine. I fooled around with the trombone, but I had no interest there. I was in early elementary school. I'm sure she could have introduced me to the basics, more than I got in elementary school on the basic flute. In freshman year high school a teacher gave us a "note matching" test, not sure the official name. She would play various single notes a few times and tell us what they were each time. Then she played some random ones and our test was to write down what note each one was. I failed big time. Some of the kids did real well. I think you had to make a certain score to be able to take band. A lot of kids got real discouraged if they did poorly - and a lot of parents got real mad.
When I was a little older I found a partly damaged acoustic guitar in a trash pile. Yea, it was a piece of junk - missing half the strings - but was intact other than that and it did "play". I at least took enough interest in it that I kept messing with it not having a clue what I was doing. Probably 3 more strings and it would have been "good enough" for somebody to teach me some cords. But that never happened. Oh well.