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[quote=Anonymous]Yes. I played for about 10 years as a child and took it up again in my mid-40s. I think you have to get to a certain level to be able to pick it up easily later in life, and my goal for DD is to get her there, not to make her excel, so she doesn't practice much, but she is making slow progress.

She used to say she hated piano fairly frequently, but these days (age 13), she objects to it much less. She does love music and singing, so I think that has sweetened the pill.

She goes to Levine, and the structure of a school is helpful for assessing her progress, to respond to an earlier question, although Levine really functions more as a loose confederation of teachers than as a school in the sense we think of a regular/academic school. Levine is also more flexible than it may appear. If you want your child to receive a certificate for a certain level, there are performance, repertoire, and skills requirements that must be met. But since we haven't gone that route, I've been able to say to the teacher, we're not doing X, for whatever reason, without any pushback. (That will, obv, depend on the teacher to some extent.)[/quote]

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