My brother took lessons for years. Since there's a 4 yr age gap, I wanted to copy my big brother, so I sat down one day and started to play a few songs by ear. I got so good at it, that the folks decided I needed lessons. My bro is the kind of person who needs to be yelled at for anything to sink in. Me? Yell at me and I'm gone. I'm not stupid. The teacher used the same techniques on me and I used to get so sick and break out in a rash, they fired him. I was so traumatized that the fun was taken out of learning. I remember he tried to talk my parents into reconsidering about 6 months later, apologizing etc,. because I had piano fingers and a good ear, but it never happened. I'm also mathematically dyslectic to a degree and couldn't comprehend 1/2 or 1/4 notes etc.
