Piano vs Basketball

thumper1
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:54:03 +0000

Sample of two. My two kids. They both took two Instriment lessons all the way through HS, and one was piano. The both did a sport. Neither was an all star, but both participated on ONE sport per year.

My kids didn’t do scouts, but both were in a very competitive and busy children’s choir, and played in precollege orchestra and wind ensemble…which I am sure took as much of their time as Eagle Scout work.

Why can’t your kid continent all of these? Although really…it sounds like he doesn’t WANT to do piano!

Why do you care about these piano tests? Kid should be taking the instrument to learn how to play…and also how to play music he likes. Those tests are not really worthwhile. Let your KID decide if he wants to resume piano. Perhaps he would like a less competitive teacher who might let him play popular music, jazz or ragtime.

For the sport…perhaps he should do a school based sport and not AAU (which generally takes a lot more time and involves a lot more travel to far away places). It’s OK to not be a starter.

If he wants to resume piano, he should be able to do so. My kids found piano practice to be a good relaxation thing and would do it to break up studying/homework. My opinion…if you piano teacher is ONLY interested in these test scores, you might want to find a different teacher. Oh…and my kids did piano for,the fun. They practiced about 30-45 minutes most days. That was their limit. That was fine with me.