>>6005982>It takes roughly a year and a half of consistent practice to master the technical skill needed to play an instrument.That's like saying it takes a year and a half to learn how to graffiti.
Sure, you can copy the fancy looking letters and designs on large surfaces, but that's what you'll likely spend most of that time doing.
Copying other peoples stuff and replicating it and if you do come up with something yourself, it's likely going to be rather simplistic.
And sure, you can draw a cool S in school after learning about it and impress your friends.
You can spend that year drawing on walls and impress some people who know nothing about graffiti.
But when you sit down in that bar, showing an actual pianist what you learnt in a year, they'll smile and go "Wow, that was great!" in that same way your grandma may praise drawings you made when you were ten.
Getting started is easy and fun, but really getting good takes a lot of time.
...I will amend however, that there are instruments that may even be more difficult to get into, but still easier to master, just like with certain branches of art.
It also depends on what genres you're playing and whether you're copying or composing.
It's certainly easier to impress regular folks with music than with drawings in general though.
I also try to compose music and design original characters, but I'm pretty bad at both...
