Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
I agree that we need to keep and even increase music in our (US) K-12 schools. Personally, I had next to none in school and none as an adult. It would be interesting to hear from folks in Canada, Europe or Australia on this subject from their school perspective.
In the UK, music is certainly still on the curriculum, though how well it's handled is another matter.
In my school days, ~60 years ago now, music was also on the curriculum. In elementary school I learned the note lengths & names(*) and played the occasional 'ting' on a triangle. When I started high school we listened to The Beatles, but I don't remember being taught anything. I specialised then in mechanical engineering, which is a pretty big and complex subject, and too make the time for that I progressively had to drop other subjects. Music was an early one to go.

My parents weren't musical; my grandfather was a piano tuner and played piano by ear. He wouldn't teach me because "that's not the right way to learn the piano". So I pretty much had no music education until I was 58 and started piano lessons. Frankly, I still struggle with music.

IMHO, anyone with a musical skill who has children, right from pre-toddler, should expose them to music encourage participation, but not force them.

It can be pretty hard otherwise.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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