| That's what I mean... everybody has their own story. My son is very talented on trombone. He has great rhythm, a great ear, and a beautiful sound. He's recently learned to use the vibrato very expressively. The kid has the goods.
However, the thing that really pulls at his heart is athletics. he loves baseball and I'm sure would love to be a pro one day. I don't find that to any less realisitic than going into music performance. If that's what he wants to do then all I can ask of him is that he go into it whole hog and immerse himself in the study and application of baseball at the best place he can go to learn. He needs to learn for himself where he stacks up compared to the thousands of others that have the same dream as he.
No one denied me the chance to do so with music and I can't deny him a shot at his dream such as it is at age 15. I'll update this thread in about 7 years and we'll know more then.
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