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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get him guitar lessons and start looking into colleges with great schools of music.[/quote]

He needs to do his homework to get into college.[/quote]

Why does he have to go to college?

He should graduate high school, but if he really wants to pursue music, he doesn’t need a college degree.[/quote]

Because he will need intense musical training to get anywhere. The people he'll be competing against will have studied music, with private lessons, since early childhood.[/quote]

Unless he’s going into jazz or classical, this is completely wrong.

Most successful rock musicians have had little or no formal musical training. Virtually none went to music school.

- Lifelong musician who has played classical and, for the last 20 years, rock in gigging cover and original bands [/quote]

Which ones? I am thinking Ed Sheeran and Adam Levine and Alicia Keys etc, started early and intensely.[/quote]

Ed Sheeran dropped out of music school his first year, at age 18 to go on tour and never returned.

Adam Levine has no intense musical training that I can find. He formed his first band when he was 15. They got a record deal. He did less than one semester of college and dropped out.

Alicia Keys is the only person in your list who received intense musical training. She dropped out of Columbia.
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Ed Sheeran took piano lessons since he was 4 and performed all his childhood, he even has footage of his young self in one of his music videos. Adam Levine comes from a very musical family and had music lessons all his life, that's how he was able to form a band at 14. Alicia Keys was classically trained. Taylor Swift took voice lessons from a very young age, her mom used to drive her all the way to NY.

There is zero chance a 15 year old with no formal music training can be successful nowadays. Formal does not mean conservatory, but conservatory or a music program will help someone who comes to the game later on in life.[/quote]

I’m not saying music lessons aren’t helpful.

I’m disagreeing with the people who say the kid needs music school and “conservatory studies.”[/quote]

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