Craig Robinson

How old were you when you started?

I thought you were even younger than that.

Yeah.

And then you eventually moved to like a pad that was a drum?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah.

And looking back on how music was taught when we were coming up, you know, it is the opposite of wanting to get kids interested in music because we come from a family of musicians on both sides.

And we grew up with our aunt Robbie who lived downstairs and was a piano teacher.

So the music was always strumming through our house.

So I...

from four years old, wanted to play the piano.

Right.

Because I could hear the scales happening and I could imitate the scales even at four.

But you know how she would start us out with the piano keys on a cardboard.

Oh, it was terrible.

We're sitting next to the piano and I'm like, I want to go on the instrument.

And she's like, nope.

And we did that for weeks and I was so mad.

Because I was like, I didn't come down here to play on a... So...

You know, I think the approach to teaching kids music these days is a little better.