She loves singing and dancing and likes being on stage (was in 2 local am-dram musicals this summer) and plays keyboards in a 'rock school' type thing at school. The school thing is very theory-light (they just teach them easy songs and don't name the notes or anything) so it's a chance to get some musical knowledge that she can use for her stage stuff. She's like me in that she remembers chords and scales easily but has a clumsy right hand so I don't have any great hopes of raising the next Taylor Swift or anything. Also, her little brother is jealous of all the attention and has picked up her old Loog so I'll probably get a half-decent musician out of one of them.
My daughter did all the lessons. Piano (where she learned to read), ukulele and drums (which she wanted to do). She just didn't want to do it. I know what it's like to want to play piano and guitar because I really did. You can't force it. Nobody else in my family plays an instrument, or shows any interest in music at all (even listening). . . From great grandparents all the way across the brothers and cousins. It's just one of those things.
Well, it'll stay with her. The act of leaning music in itself is wonderful, even if she never uses it, but maybe she'll get into it later in life, like I did!
