Remember when you were a kid - like last year for some of ya's ;-) - and mummy wanted you to take piano lessons? And how you kicked and screamed bloody murder till they relented and let you go outside with your mates? How freakin' sad were we! I'd give my eye-teeth to know the piano. And was well into it all before I learned guitar, such as it is.

Two parter: 1) Knowing how to play an instrument is the greatest thing in the world. Why? 2) And how can we encourage our youth to put away the video games for a minute and do something really worthwhile?