Anyone regret not learning music as a kid?

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When I was a kid. I really had a strong desire to learn music because I needed and wanted a way to express myself. But I couldn't do it because I was afraid to express myself for fear of embarrassing myself or giving my enemies information that they could exploit. The only way I could survive in school was to trust nobody and to keep my feeling locked up.

Yes. So I'm trying to teach myself how to play the guitar right now. I just wish I'd started sooner. But better late than never right?

I want to take lessons but I'm too embarrassed...

I had piano lessons as a kid but I wasn't focused enough at the time to follow through with them. I really wish now that I had kept them up!

I wish I was more devoted to piano lessons when younger so that I wouldn't suck. I'm going to start guitar lessons on Thursday.

I wish I'd been more devoted to my piano as well, that way I would be able to write songs. I'm starting over right now (as well as electric guitar), but who knows whether I'll have the money to continue my education in that regard.

I regret not learning piano. I love solo piano concerts, particularly Keith Jarrett.

Another instrument I wouldn't mind learning is the cello. But piano is by far a number one choice.

Can someone tone-deaf learn music? My mom was too poor to afford music lessons for me as a kid.

i think so, some classical composers (Bach, for example), were not only tone-deaf, but full-out clinically deaf...
some instruments would be harder then others, but you dont really need hearing to play a piano piece off paper, since the worst you can do wrong on a piano is pressing the wrong key, and that is a matter of training.
other instruments are harder though, as you can influence the tone yourself, guitar has that effect slightly, and wind instruments require this skill in order to play in tune

I regret I didn't learn the piano when I was a child. I've only played for around two years. At this point I can play grade 3 songs with 2-3 weeks of practice.

I can use the pedal to sustain notes, play without looking down at the keyboard sometimes and use dynamics to be softer or louder. I've also just learned how to sit correctly - far back from the piano so that when you use the pedal you use as minimal effort as possible. If you sit far back it's only the foot that has to move. If you're too far forward your leg does too which tires you out.

Another great thing to learn for the piano is to relax your fingers. It takes a bit of getting used to be if you play too stiffly it can be heard in the notes and it will hurt your fingers. Making them flop as though they're in the bath helps them bounce off the keys and gets you playing more smoothly and quickly.

I keep on making progress but I still feel quite disappointed because what I actually want is to be able to play decent pop songs like Elton John's and sing along. Though I'm quite good I'm still probably a year or two away from that, supposing I keep advancing at this rate.

I regretted not sitting down with anything as a kid. But yes. I would have loved to learn music production and playing any instrument with rhythm.

I knew someone who lived nearby who had two pianos in their house and I loved going there to play with them. But thinking back I wish I had took lessons and learned properly.

I wasn't given the opportunity to learn, so I don't have personal regrets about it. But, I would have liked to learn something. My parents never suggested lessons and I didn't know that I could ask for something like that. Music classes in school were a complete joke. I had a music teacher in my first year at high school, who spent the hour reading the register and pretending to fall asleep. Nobody complained, as it was a free hour for us all. Then, we got a different teacher the following year. She asked us what instruments we had been learning the previous year. We all looked at one another in amazement - were we supposed to be learning an instrument? There was no more music in school after the second year. The teacher had recommended that I should take it as a certificate subject, but after the fiasco in the first year, I felt I'd too much to learn and worried that I might get that man again.

I've tried as an adult, but my brain seems to be too hard wired to allow it. It's much easier for children to learn. So, my daughter had some guitar lessons, but couldn't concentrate for 10 mins, let alone the 30min lesson, so we gave up. I'm hoping that she'll want to try it again.