That got their attention.
30 years later I picked up classical guitar and loved it! Do I thank my parents for forcing the piano on me? Hell no.
This is a completely alien perspective to most people. Most people never even really try to be good at anything. That you think this quirk of your own psychology is the norm shows a deep disconnect with the mass of mediocre people who don’t care about being competitive because they’re not trying to get highs up on some leaderboard. https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
You want to have fun playing along to your favourite song. Or impromptu jam with a friend. Or sing for yourself because a song reminds you of a memory.
They all have a minimum skill requirement, without which it isn't as enjoyable. You need to know to play reasonably well by ear to have fun imo.
I just had a kid so this is pretty real to me. How it will go is anybody's guess, but I hope it does go well :)
I guess I believe more in the Montessori idea that kids are intrinsically motivated to learn and excel, and they will tend to be naturally drawn to work hard at the skills that they are best suited for.
I understand the idea that some skills have a hump to get over and it’s good to encourage that determination, but I’d also guess that for every person like you who is glad they were pushed to learn some particular skill, there is another person who it affected very negatively. So I suppose it’s a bit of a gamble in that sense.
If you’ve already picked up reading music for one instrument, it’s a ton easier for the next one.
In fact, I never actually learned to sight read until I started on guitar. All I remembered from the old days was "all cows eat grass"
Absolutely not. If you hate something and don't learn anything more that entry level, it won't give you any foundation, only hatred and bitterness. Also the piano and the guitar are very different beasts that you cannot compare at all.
Mechanically, sure, nothing transfers. Rhythm transfers pretty well. An ear for what sounds right would too.
If you're reading printed music, that transfers. A lot of guitar play comes from tabs though, which isn't really transferrable.
If you play chords on the piano and the guitar, and especially if you're thinking about chord progressions, that transfers. But you might play either instrument without a lot of chords.
Lead melody kinds of things can transfer a bit. Especially if you were thinking about how the notes in the melody fit with the chords, even if you didn't play the chords.
Even if you didn't think you were learning music fundamentals, you might have picked up something.
Doesn't actually matter how good he gets at classical guitar either.