why did you learn to play an instrument? Options

[teeners4]

my parents forced me to learn piano. when they forced me i hated it, but they dont force me now and i love it ~ and i also was forced to play saxaphone and clairnet in school. i love sax though!

always wanted to learn violin + drums

all my friends are not in a guitar craze. all of them want to learn guitar

[gmgmaster]

I thought it would be cool, but now I wanna play a different instrument and my parents won't let me...darn!

[xSiLLyMex]

My parents made me play the piano wen i was 7, gawd..i hated it. Thankfully now my new teacher sed she wont teach ppl who arnt determined to play, because i was acting all bytchy towards her.

[EnrapturedElf]

it was mai decision to play the piano...it is so stressful! and frustrating since i've been playing for 5 years . but mai parents forced meeh to play the flute. and this year i'm going to play teh clarinet.

[Danny]

i just wanted to play the clarinet because... im that random... then i went to play a little piccolo just because it has a high pitch haha... then i switched to e flat clarinet because... its unique haha..

[inthemudhole]

I started viola because I wanted to have some experience under my belt for flute. [which I had wanted to play for a LONG time, and couldn't play for another year]
I started flute because.. it interested me for a long time.
I started piano because it interested me, and I love playing instruments.
I play other various ones.. I pretty much only played them for fun.
I'm learning drums.. cause they're so COOL. XD
I want to take guitar, too.. [=

[miszkristinexox]

my parents made me play the piano
i wanted to learn how to play the flute

[sharerol]

When I was 10 or something, I wanted to play the piano as good as my friend, Jessica. But my teacher was 18, and she was giving piano lessons to make money for college. I took lessons in the summer, but when summer was over, she had to leave for college, so that's pretty much when I stopped taking lessons. Soon after, I thought the piano was boring, so I never went back.

[xquizit]

I learned to play piano cuz of my parents. As for guitar, sure I was influenced a lil by my father, but I myself was interested in learning how to play in hopes of joining a band one day and so I can write music.

[AznKutie]

Ehh...I learned how 2 play the piano because my parents made me!

[*tweeak*]

i decided to join band because i thought it would be fun to know how to play an instrument, and because a lot of my friends were. plus, my mom was already thinking far ahead to how band could help me get into college even though i was in 6th grade at the time

[emrzz09]

I played the flute in the school band 5th-7th grade. But I can also play the piccolo, sax, clarinet, piano, guitar, and the drums.

[whomps]

I want to learn how to play my stupid guitar.

And I've always wanted to learn how to play piano. My dad would love me a million times more if I played the violin/piano. BUT I PLAY FLUTE AND I SUCK.

I wanted to play. So my mom bought me one.

[mizz_mithy]

i learned trumpet because my parents made me. my brother played trumpet so my parents made me play trumpet to make me better than my brother. i hate when they compare us.

[*mona lisa*]

i played the violin cuz i wanted to in elementary school. that's it my parents never forced me because they dont really like me to supposedly "waste" my time on music

[GreenTze]

picked up the oboe aroundend of 8th grade.later i found out that instrument can get you quite alot of scholarships so i just kept playing. hoping for the money to roll in!

[weirdness]

i play piano because i chose to 3 yeras ago then i quit because i hated it

i play viola because of school

i want to play drums & guitar.

[BigPappaSmurf]

I played the violin I got bored with it so now I just started the guitar cuz its so appealing especially the acoustic

[xpLiCitsmuRfette]

i quit piano after a day.

[gvoxford]

my parents forced me to play piano for about eight years... and i'm still stuck with it. i think i only hate it because it's turned into a chore and isn't my thing anymore but eh, i'm pretty thankful. learning to read music from piano helps A LOT now.

i wanted to play guitar three years ago because of Mike Einziger, still love it.

learned bass and drums thereafter thanks to previous and present bandmates and fooling around. aha, it's fun.

[teenprincess]

I played violen in 5th grade because it looked like fun. I don't know if I was good or bad at it, but at stopped playing before I got to 6th grade.

Christmas I'm getting a guitar, I'm soo excited. But I would actually rather play the drums. Maybe if I'm good I might join my friend's "band"...

[*jooleeah*]

When I was little, my parents signed me up for piano class. It wasn't really a forceful thing, but then again it kind of was, too o_o i was on and off of piano from when i was age 5 to like age 10 lol. still don't know much. oh well. and when i was 9 or 10, i learned how to play the gou zhen...again, it wasn't really a forceful thing, but it kind of was too. and now i play the violin, but i wanted to. so yeah.
edit// i forgot, i also learned how to play the recorder but it was more of a school thing.

[NatiMarie]

I learned to play the clarinet because...I needed something to do and I heard you got to do concerts at theme parks and stuff so I thought that was cool.
:P Then I quit because...I didn't like it that much.
xD

[*tweeak*]

When I was little, my parents signed me up for piano class. It wasn't really a forceful thing, but then again it kind of was, too o_o i was on and off of piano from when i was age 5 to like age 10 lol. still don't know much. oh well. and when i was 9 or 10, i learned how to play the gou zhen...again, it wasn't really a forceful thing, but it kind of was too. and now i play the violin, but i wanted to. so yeah.
edit// i forgot, i also learned how to play the recorder but it was more of a school thing.

if you went to simpson recorder was in 4th grade and guitar was in 5th

actually, id forgotten about that too. but i dont remember how to play guitar anymore. i could relearn recorder/song flute from 6th grade if i cared though

[Levy2k6]

i remmember back in 3rd grade, we did recorders and in 4th we did guitars.. then in 6th grade i joined band and did trombone til 7th grade.. then i quit.

yeah..

[xj_liana_tx]

i think i had too, well i haha.. didn't no english at the time and i was a very immature lil kid who listens to watever her parents says, so i took up flute.

[lil_shadow]

hmm in kindergarten we learned to play the recorder...than we moved and in third grade we learned to play it again...only we played much easier songs the second time...-____-''...uh then i learned to play piano in third grade....peer pressure dude xD...haha j.k i wanted to sort of..and then uhhh in fourth grade i learned to play the violin because i liked the sound....and i also wanted to be in the advanced orchestra so i would be able to go to six flags at the end of the year =)

[Note]

i learned the violen from my gramps, chelllo from my aunt, and drums from my m-school teacher. skillz.

::jerry::

[*tweeak*]

i learned the violen from my gramps, chelllo from my aunt, and drums from my m-school teacher. skillz.

::jerry::

chelllo? hahahaha CELLO

[crash57]

my parents made me play piano and violin.
it's an asian thing. i'm kinda glad they made me though.

[*instantmusic*]

i play guitar because of the undeniable truth: its a mating call for hotties.

[*stephinika*]

well i did piano cause i liked it in the beginning...i quit 2 years ago though cause i don't like it anymore. i played flute cause i loved how it sounds then i quit cause band started to suck after we went to disneyland haha so yeah.

[LiNHy POO]

my parents made me. at least i know how to read music and such, so its good.

[PinkTrash]

I guess, cause I saw someone.. It wasnt much of a decision, I was just lyke, kk thats kinda kool so Ill try it.. wasnt a big deal really for me when I was young..

[aznbabiicutie]

i played the piano because i was in the school band in 6th grade last year, but this year i quit.

[FALLENstar009]

Parents and their persistance force to make me play the piano. Now i enjoy playing it myself.
Guitar was on my own free will. Drums was my own free will.,
and Violin, that was a cousin thing.

[dani41790]

umm cuz i saw some1 play it and i wanted to be able to play that well

[vivieeeen]

weeeeeeeee~ look at all those votes for "parents made me"

hehe i was one of them... *sigh... those were the days

don't regret it one bit though

I got all the stuff I need: Read, Write...

[pAtRiCk_sTar]

i just really like music, and, ionno i liked the piano, although i have no talent on it whatsoever, i like "listening" to it, but ya cant say i didnt try. and llooong ago in elementary school i think, they forced us to play the lame recorder. again, no talent AT ALL

[xbernaa]

~~i learned piano and clarinet

clarinet-school band

piano-parents made me..i dont play it much..but i still like to learn new songs..

[audory]

i play piano, violin (those two my parents made me.. but they're okay now), cello, clarinet, percussion (chose to play those), and i have played trumpet for a summer.

[dreamerOi]

typical asain parent. made me learn how to play the piano. darn. anyways i want to learn it agian. &i also learned how to play the flute. but i want to learn how to play the guitar.

[oregoncalistew]

I have a funky musical history.
As a kid I took violin lessons and was miserable of them, but I didn't hate them. I also listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't know any other till I grew up and entered my early rebel ages. So, I willingly moved on to piano because the violin was so miserable. ("I'll try it") I played and hated it for a while, then loved it because it became so easy to me. Then I quit lessons because I didn't have much time. Now I want to take lessons again, even though I have no time, because I love music a lot more. About half a year ago, I picked up an acoustic guitar because I was inspired by Nas' guitar in 2pac|Thugz Mansion. I'm a self taught band shenanigan now. Without a band. Because there is no other band shenanigan freshman in my highschool who I can get along with.

[misoshiru]

i've always loved music. i've been playing the piano for 10 years, and my clarinet for about 5. my parent's are always telling me to give up my music and focus on school more, but i'm never going to give my music up (:

[azn hunni xox]

Oh, I took band, playing the flute, in grade six... Haha, I just get really inspired my classical music...

I sorta quit though... I just got really bored of it... But now I wanna play the piano.

[hair products]

<3 music

[s_parker_luver]

i start to learn piano when i was 5. it interested me for a long time. but somehow i hate it now. i like learnin it but i hate practising it.
i learn recorder becoz i have to do so in my primary sku.
i learn French Horn becoz i was in the sku band and the teacher ask me to play it..... -___-"
i learn Trumpet becoz i hated French Horn so damn much and then the teacher allows me to play trumpet instead of french horn.
i learn flute becoz i love the sound it produce.
i will learn Cello within the cumin two years, after i've finished my piano grade 8 exam....
and also harp.

[x emo screamo x]

I learned how to play the violin..
cuz my mom played when she was younger.
&& she wanted me to.
but its cool
I like it

[Veloso]

i did to kill time and also partly i wanted to other than tat i join cuz i get to do cool stuff in the end

[*tweeak*]

i start to learn piano when i was 5. it interested me for a long time. but somehow i hate it now. i like learnin it but i hate practising it.
i learn recorder becoz i have to do so in my primary sku.
i learn French Horn becoz i was in the sku band and the teacher ask me to play it..... -___-"
i learn Trumpet becoz i hated French Horn so damn much and then the teacher allows me to play trumpet instead of french horn.
i learn flute becoz i love the sound it produce.
i will learn Cello within the cumin two years, after i've finished my piano grade 8 exam....
and also harp.

whats this, no clarinet?

[yummy_delight]

my parents made me start playing when i was four. and i'm fourteen now so i've been playing for 10 years!!! i hate practicing but when there's no pressure i absolutely love it.

i want to learn to play the drums SO bad. and guitar! :sigh:

[premonition]

my mom made me take it when i was little.
i hated the violin.

[rockmyx]

l learn to play drums when l was in high school. l know how to play trumpet too my parents dont force me to play, they dont even care.
they only say "study hard and pass the board exam". but l really like to play them. l want to be a member of Blue Devils

[lonelydevil426]

my mom made me when i was in 4th grade but i now i love playing the violin and piano...i also started cello and viola on my own cuz i was bored playing the violin. lol.

[XaZnX07]

i think people make you so you can be well rounded and keep you busy
.:Tony:.l

[distortedMIND]

I played the recorder for a grade in 5th grade, and I play a guitar because I played around with my cousin's guitar a couple of years ago and I got interested and he taught me some chords and there you go.

[lilxroxy]

piano was forced by mom. and then, i picked trumpet curz of peer pressure, then now, i picked oboe curz i love it

[Deppism]

hm when i was really little i played piano i forogot why. mom wanted me too? then in 4th grade i played cello cuz i just wanted to play some sorta insturment. and lots of my friends were in orchestra back then. then i switched ovah to violin cuz like i got really bored of cello.

[HeatherMoreno]

My parents always kept telling me to play the piano a long time ago, so I played it for awhile. I stopped eventually because it got kind of boring and it was too common. I now play the violin.

[ichiban]

My parents started forcing me since I was 6 (violin and piano) because they said it's good for you future and the economy is being screwed up and it's gonna be hard to get a future job and colleges like that you have other talents. (:

[*wind&fire*]

unknowingly enslavement by my parents at the age of 5... lucky i grew up and got a voice

[jambaJUICE]

For myself.
My parents never pushed me to do anything like everyone i know has, so im learning how to play guitar. -- tablature only, i hate chords.

Be thankful if your parents push you to do shizz.