I first started learning to play the piano at 10/11 but quit before it was a year, mainly because i found it boring and i dreaded going to the lessons. I took it up again with the same teacher when I was 14 and in a few months of starting i completed an ABRSM Grade 2 exam and passed with merit. I then went on to do a Grade 4 exam which i did last year (I'm 16 now) and well all of my friends know how much i dread piano lessons.
2 weeks prior to the exam my teacher gave me the specimen aural tests CD as we had never done aural (at grade 4 level) in class, so i couldn't sight sing or practically do anything because I didn't know how to do it as I was never taught. My sight reading is even worse. I barely scraped a pass on sight reading at grade 2 because my teacher left it til the last minute, she also did this for grade 4.Suffice to say, I passed the exam with 118 (2 away from merit) and i did excellently in my scales and pieces but (quite obviously) i failed both aural and sight reading.
Since the beginning of this year I have been preparing for Grade 5 and I bought 2 sight reading books, for grade 1 and 2 (because my sight reading is that bad) because i thought i should take the initiative to learn it since my teacher isn't willing to teach it. I'm still dreading the lessons and I hate the thought of piano, but i'm not quitting because i would love to play it very well.
Umm sorry for my big rant (and this isn't even all of my problems with piano) but i just wanted to know if anyone has any advice or is in a similar position?
Topic: I think I hate piano but i'm not sure