I mean, it looks like he also plays the mandolin. Which is pretty cool, especially when you’re losing your religion.
Mandolin and banjo are both pretty cool - but if I had to choose, I’d go with the mandolin.
Uke for me.
That wasn’t one of the options!
Still - gotta go with mandolin
(I have a uke I got when I was like 10. I’m currenlty teaching my 8 year old the only song I really know on it. I’ve gotten a lot of use out of that song in talent shows throughout the years.)
I started playing ukulele because playing a full sized guitar was too hard after I sliced off the tip of my left middle finger.
piano4life
I got a guitar a few years later, but I never really learned how to play that either.
I can pluck out some simple stuff with my right hand on the piano - enough to pick out my part for songs I sing with the choir.
That’s the extent of my instrument skills. I sing well enough though.
oh, to expand on my pro piano stance, playing piano now is way more fun than when I was a kid. Now you can find performances of almost anything on youtube and also there are pianist on youtube who compose their own arrangements of popular songs and sell the sheet music and there’s an app musicnotes that goes with said sheet music that makes it easier to learn on your own. It’s lots of fun. None of this existed when I was a kid before the internet.
Is it really learning the piano though if you don’t have to suffer?
well, I think having a teacher which makes it less fun and more work makes you a better piano player than just doing stuff on your own that you feel like doing using youtube and musicnotes. I’d learn stuff much faster if I had a teacher.
It’s definitely a balance, but I remember as a kid really wanting to learn the guitar and my parents got me a teacher who was relentless about mastering fundamentals and very basic chords and that kind of thing and eventually I got disinterested and stopped. No point in mastering the basics if you destroy any interest in practicing.
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Cross post to the “News that makes you say WT-literal-F” thread…a 6th grade math class in Aurora IL (using a remote education vendor based in FL) got an unexpected lesson in…erm…multiplying…
Hey, free porn
if the teacher named in the article is not the one at fault, that would be a google problem to overcome on future job searches
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The story has been updated:
6th grader saw porn on his PC. I’m open to the possibility that it wasn’t obviously the zoom call 
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The kids who don’t have the discipline to learn when the teacher isn’t physically present are going to fail at life anyways.
Dammit, Dan’s 6th grader!!!
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after listening day after day of my upstairs neighbor cursing out her 8-year-old and calling her a loser who she cannot love because her piano playing isn’t up to her high standards, I changed my mind here. An instrument is a hobby for most, not a necessary life skill. Let them quit rather than emotionally abuse them.
OMG, that is not ok. My parents were certainly never abusive, and that’s not what I would have wanted. Just a firm “you’re not quitting piano” in the same way that I wasn’t allowed to quit 2nd grade. They kept me in school without being abusive.