<p>I took piano for 4 years as a kid. Absolutely detested my mom making me practice on friday nights, over the weekends when i wanted to play with my friends etc. Now as im older (junior in high school), I look back and wish I didn't quit. But with becoming a teenager...came that stuff involving sports, and partying. Just wondering if there's anyone who quit but went back to it later on. Was it hard for you to relearn it? I got to around an intermediate-advanced level (moonlight sonata mvt. 3) was the hardest song I learned to play. Now playing my piano for the first time today since like 6 years, I can't even play chopsticks anymore haha. Anyways, tell me what you guys thought about going back after quitting. I still have college stuff coming up so I'd have to find the time to practice. Or eventually get into lessons again.</p>
<p>edit: 3 years of playing, 4 was my sister...</p>
<p>It was actually easier for me. Maybe because I had played the violin during the years I wasn't playing the piano (and I actually enjoy violin)
But you'll have more patience/discipline to play now that you're older. Plus you shouldn't have as hard of a time reaching the keys (that was the part I hated)</p>
<p>I think you definitely should. I took it for 3 years in elementary school, quit, then started again in 9th grade and I am so glad I did. It is much more fun when you actually want to be playing! (:</p>
<p>You're in the same boat as I am, although it's not piano.</p>
<p>I've played violin for like, 3 years ish really really young (barely practiced), and quit, started again 3 years ago but never practice so I'm not getting much better.</p>
<p>Um, practice and you'll be fine. If you're playing for personal enjoyment, it's all good, but it's a given that you won't be able to outdo those that started early in music if you're planning on achieving something grandiose.</p>
<p>nothing close to having it become a career. More of a stress reliever/personal enjoyment thing. Did you guys start up lessons or just practice by yourself until you regained what you lost?</p>
<p>Lessons is the way to go for improvement, but in the end music is usually about practice IMO. I can't say much for piano but you should get a proper teacher to instruct you properly.</p>
<p>I quit piano so much when I was little. But I started playing it pretty seriously about 3-ish years ago. I didn't really know that much so it wasn't that hard for me to start over. I did pretty much forget bass cleff though. I play viola, so I had been working in alto for a couple years before I went back, and alto is completely useless for piano.</p>
<p>i quit lessons a long long time ago as a kid but sometimes i go practice on my own and play some songs I like. It's fully possible to play piano again as long as you don't expect any sort of stellar achievement and just do it for personal enjoyment. It's kind of like any sport, ex: running or swimming. You can always take it up again for recreation but you won't be up to competition-level anytime soon.</p>
<p>i quit lessons when i was 7 but picked it up again in middle school. i got really, really serious and almost auditioned for conservatories, but then i quit. my advice to you: just play for fun and do what you want with it. you can reteach yourself.</p>
<p>I took it until High School, and quit. I feel awful because I'd passed grade eight piano and everything, and it felt like a waste just giving up. -__- But i'm WAY too busy to continue practicing... My sister still takes it and she doesn't ever practice- I just don't see the point in taking lessons when I don't even prepare or practice for them.</p>
<p>Go for it. I kind of wish I hadn't quite after 5th grade - I had been taking it for 6 years and had sort of lost interest and had too many things to do at the time. Now I feel bad for giving up because I think I could have been really good but I just wasn't motivated. Hopefully I'll have time to pick it back up sometime in the future.</p>