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Mine didn't offer strings either. But I really love to learn how to play a piano and violin someday in the future. But that'll be a long time from now. sweatdrop

But two things I still go frequently is find the tempo and step to it, and keep my pinkies up whenever I hold something.
The latter was from being smacked with a ruler when I put my pinky in the ring hole, which was the first and only time I did it. sweatdrop

I've never had braces so I wouldn't know(even though I probably need them), but I quit band, when I couldn't get up to a high G.
I simply didn't have the lungs to do it. emo

Thanks in believing in me. sweatdrop
I'm sure I'll have an easier time relearning to read music, then relearning sign language. Then again both are entirely different from one another. sweatdrop

I think music is a lot like language. It's not hard to pick up on if you've had exposure to it before. Like language, you learn to read it and "speak" it [although many people will argue that it's unnatural to teach a person to read before they can "speak" - and so the Suzuki method came about]. Unfortunately, like language it's also easier to pick up at a young age.

Piano is probably the easiest instrument to play - all you have to do is press a key. But with piano you're forced to read two different clefs at a time, and since you have 10 fingers that you can use all at once, you're often reading 10 times as many notes as anyone else. xd

You have no argument from me about it being a lot like a language, I absolutely agree.

And I just remembered another thing from when I was starting out with music.
When I was learning to play trumpet, I wasn't exactly sure what some notes were, so I wrote the letters to the notes to help me out.

But for me it's been 6 years since I read anything involving musical notes, and 12 years since doing sign language.
But with sign language I can understand half of it, though for the life of me I can't remember how to speak it.

And with music, I just don't know much anymore because I only played for maybe two years, when as with sign language I was doing it for 5 maybe 6 years.

I just need a crash course, and to learn it one on one, because that's the only way I can learn fairly well. emo

Aivi: Jeez, thanks for telling me this now, now I'm thinking twice in taking up piano.
I have a hard enough reading simple things in general, let a lot trying to read multiple things at once. gonk

It just takes some practice... everyone has to start from somewhere. Learning piano is totally do-able for anyone who isn't tone deaf and can tap a beat. I could barely read [or speak coherently] when I started lessons. xd

The hardest part about piano isn't reading notes or even playing the damn thing... it's having the patience to get to where you want to be. It takes years and years of practice... You just have to love where you are and not be too focused on the prize, otherwise you'll get frustrated.

That's the great thing about starting when you're young - by the time you're old enough to finally appreciate it, you're already good at it!

I've been relearning the piano for the past three years. I started out pretty well with the Suzuki method in Japan when I was 6, but then I slacked of for about...20 years. I am now trying to get the grips of The Entertainer as we speak.