Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
I played piano, I learned a lot about music.
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.