If you like to play piano, you’re competing against three year olds that can play better than you. If you like to play flute, you’re competing against six year olds who are better than you. If you like to play violin, you’re competing against four year olds who can play better than you. If you like to play guitar however, you might be able to play better than a six year old. This is because as awesome as Fender guitar parts and other guitar parts are, and as awesome as guitars are, parents hate them.
The type of parent who would want their three year old playing guitar is the type of parent who plays guitar themselves and wants somebody to jam with. The type of parent who would want their three year old playing violin is the type of parent who is probably successful financially, understands the power of discipline and knows what they want out of life, which is a very, very smart prodigy kid. Guitar kids aren’t prodigies They’re hillbillies, playing parts of an acoustic guitar song while their hillbilly brothers sing along. The guitar is not ‘fancy’, it isn’t ‘elegant’, it isn’t ‘regal’, and it certainly isn’t the road that most parents pick for their children.
In fact, some really strict parents won’t even let their children pick an instrument to play that isn’t a violin or a viola or a cello or a piano because the guitar is too ‘crude’, too ‘wild’, too ‘worldly’. Whether this is true or not is a matter of opinion, but the types of parents who start their kids off early and don’t themselves play are people on violins and pianos The types of parents who start their kids on the guitar early are parents with little to no self discipline themselves.