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Originally Posted by TomClancy11
People in America don't...?
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No. Most people have never taken a music lesson in their lives, and the msot we get is 30 mins of Music class a week where you learn to read music, learn definitions like harmony and thats it.
its very abstract. We get these ****ty 3rd-hand instruments no one ever learns how to play, we just learn smash them together in unison for 3 minutes and go from there.
In 4th grade you can pay to join a recorder program if your parents will let you. Most kids learn hot cross buns and quit. I'm guessing also that this is the top of the public-school education because I'm living in a state (and grew up in a state) that routinely lands in the first or second spot of public education. And gym/art/music is usually the first program to be cut in a budget crunch.
Its entierly possible much of the nation doesn't get even what I've mentioned.