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Originally Posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.

It must be a wonderful feeling to play a musical instruments and even write music, and maybe beome famous from it.

But what if you're forced to learn to play.

I found this site though Alyssa Bernal's page, which is under the thread " Do You Think This Young Lady Will Make It? .

http://www.youtube.com/user/ilajil

Haven't checked out his stuff as much, but if you read his bio, he says he was forced play piano.

Now the brightside is he enjoys it now, but to force a kid to do something which should be fun to me is bothersome. Don't you think?


I just posted an interview for Alyssa and one part the guy asks about her learning the guitar, which she began to do not long before the interview. She mentioned it was a gift from her dad and she claims he didn't expect her to try it out.

I thought "what?" Why did he even bother getting her one?

Both she and AJ come from musical backgrounds but when you heard such negatives, it sounds discouaging when one is forced to play and insterument and another parent expects to little from their kid.

Don't get it.


Anway hears a song in which he didn't write, but dedicated it to a fan who had a rare heart disease and was going to get operated on.


YouTube- Falling Slowly - Swell Season (Jess & AJ)

I think that it's all kinds of wrong to force a kid to learn a thing or to do a thing that they either don't like or for any reason makes them feel uncomfortable, especially if they are going to be made to do it in public. Kids have enough to worry about in this life, sothey don't need the added problem of their parennts trying to make them do something that could embarrass them in public. I mean, can you imagine how a child feels after taking lessons for ages just to suit the family, only to find that they aren't that good? I've even seen cases where when the kid doesn't do as well as the parents want them to, the parents will berate & belittle the kid.