To be jealous of my dc?

[VaguelySensible]

19yo ds wandered downstairs in his dressing gown, at a loose end. He's home from uni, studying a STEM subject.

"Mum, is this your old recorder?" waving my old treble around. "How do you play it?"

I showed him the difference between piccolo, descant and treble, and a few fingerings. By the time I'd dug out a complete fingering chart he'd already worked out several more notes.

Now, half an hour after he came downstairs, he's already worked out several songs by ear and is sight-reading songs from my books.

Over the years I have tried to learn recorder, fife, violin and piano. I eventually gave up because I was so utterly, utterly rubbish at music.

It is so utterly, utterly effortless for ds. I am blown away. Am I allowed to be just that little bit jealous, too?

You are. DH and I are both lifelong musicians but DS inherited DH’s ability to play songs by ear whereas I, with years of classical music training and theory, just can’t do that and have to work at it. I’m very jealous of that ability!

Im very jealous of anyone with musical ability. I’ve tried to learn various instruments also, always with much frustration, and much failure, as I lack the coordination, memory and reading ability required!!

I’m envious of anyone with musical ability. My in-laws are all musical. Even my in-laws in-laws are musical (BIL in-laws). DH is a little bit musical, he can read music and play the piano very, very slowly. I have no skills at all despite trying several times. I was in top set for all subjects at school including music but my music teacher consistently tried to get me sent down several sets in music but sets were based on other subjects so I stayed (and struggled and was occasionally let near the triangle as a test). But we’re definitely the black sheep for our lack of musical ability.

My DD does a sport at national and international level that I was reasonably good at as a child naturally, but was never trained in (I lived in a rural community and a club for the sport wasn’t even a thing). I watch her doing what she does now in large arenas and I’m blown away by it. I don’t think that, even with the amount of training she does, I’d be even a quarter as good as her but I can dream 😊

I'm jealous of DSs singing voice (he's nearly 4)...he sings back everything he hears in tune, and has a lovely sweet voice for some songs and a booming voice for others (DH and FIL are also good singers so he gets it from them)
...sometimes funny DH was telling me he sings 'tear out my souuul' at mass

I've also let him have a go on my recorder and Irish whistle and he can get a good sound from both (but can't do the fingers yet)