Thread 939331346

Why did you stop practicing an instrument?

>>939331346 (OP)
i play the skinflute

>>939331346 (OP)
If i'm honest, i've been too lazy to play guitar. That said, all my plans to be a paid musician pretty much failed.

My mom forced me to take piano lessons. I had some bitter mean 80 year old lady as my piano teacher. My mom would put a timer on the piano for an hour and made me practice until the timer went off. It always felt like a chore. It was never my decision to start playing piano and every aspect was entirely unenjoyable for me. I took lessons for 5 years and then my mom let me quit as long as I took up some other activity.

As an adult I wish I would have stuck with it, but I fucking hated it as a kid.

>>939331729
why was she so mean to you?

aren't there great apps for learning piano now? where it basically has a guitar hero like interface and you just follow the colors?

>>939332299
there are, but it always felt like i wasn't actually learning to play, but just learning to mimic and memorize pieces. like going onto another piece was basically going back to square one, never played before type feeling
>>939331346 (OP)
demoralization from lack of progress

>>939331729
Question. How do you get over the big first hurdle of playing both hands for the first time? I can play left hand alone, I can play right hand alone, but add them together and it's fucking me up bad. Maybe something to do with me needing to look at the key doesn't help either

>>939331346 (OP)
I never started

>>939331346 (OP)

i had 3 guitars and never played them.

>>939333476
nta you do that from the beginning with very simple melodies, usually the left one is the support.
If that's such a problem to you I dont' think you will be ever able to play it.

>>939331346 (OP)
Because your code monkey..

My guitar broke one day and I just never fixed it.

>>939336744
don't you think nows a good time too ???

>>939336797
Well that was about 40 years ago so no.

>>939336797
I used to play acoustic guitar and ukulele and I just got really bored of them

>>939331346 (OP)
Because I haven't.

>>939331346 (OP)
how often do you practice on the flesh flute ?

>>939331346 (OP)
I quit band to join ROTC hoping that a particular girl liked a man in uniform.

Minor cerebral palsy...
I've always wanted to play the piano and keyboard well, but I'm limited because I can't move half of my body as fast as my other half.
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jo why ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PukWu6vuRF0

>>939333476
Never was a problem for me.

The mean old lady piano teacher would have me do exercises where I held my fingers tips on a table, palms off the table, so only finger tips are touching. Then move each finger up and down individually. Can't move any other finger but the one at a time. Try it. It is hard if you have never done it. Before, especially your ring finger.

Lots of exercises like that to improve hand control.

She would also hold a book under my chin so I couldn't even see my hands and I had to read the music. If I tried to look down I still couldn't see my hands because the book blocked my view.

>>939331346 (OP)
still playing accordion. not a good player but its great
hard but relaxing

>>939331346 (OP)
i just got bored of it

>>939331346 (OP)
I don’t really care about music tbh. Pop culture is gay.

>>939331346 (OP)
I joined the army and got blown up in Afghanistan, sing and play like an amputee now, can’t hold a note or carry a tune.