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Jamming! Music is social. It's a wonderful feeling sing or play along with others.

Piano is a great instrument. Learning piano to a good level transfers to other instruments, because you learn much more than pressing keys. However it's extremely lonely, and therefore boring, to practicing some bullshit polka that nobody wants to hear. I went to lessons for 9 years, sat 7 grade exams, and promptly quit as soon as I left home. Lessons never taught me to jam, fill in, improvise. I found it monumentally boring, and only continued because I was good at it, and had a large sunken cost.

Looking at the Beatles documentary "Get Back", they were just kids with instruments who got to jam full-time. There are plenty of instrumentalists that absolutely kick their asses. What made them special was that they weren't afraid to pay what they wanted to play, and to experiment, together. (They also drove themselves to produce something important to a deadline)