So... I'm 44, I've always wished I had musical talent. But I don't, like not even a little bit. I can't clap in time to a beat, can't match singing to a note, for the most part can't do anything slightly musical.
Both of my kids are very musical, one even went to college to study music. They both enjoy laughing at how bad I am at anything musical (I'm not sensitive about it, it's funny to me too).
I own half a dozen guitars, because I wanted to learn music and I think guitars are cool. At one time, I think I could play a few chords. That's about as far as I got. When I try playing with a metronome I can't keep rhythm with it. I was never able to get a strumming pattern to work for me, like down down up down up or whatever, I'd lose the rhythm when trying to lift off or come back to the strings.
Anyhow, all of that to say... I'd really like to be able to do something musical, but I just can't seem to get that part of my brain to work and then I give up.
If I want to learn do I just need to brute force learn something? Are there instruments or even electronic stuff that will be easier to have some kind of success? Or are some people just so musically untalented that it's hopeless?
Submitted December 12, 2025 at 01:14AM by CapNBall1860 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1pkiib8/got_no_rhythm_cant_sing_cant_even_clap_along_can/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, December 11, 2025