Erica ... you are absolutely correct in your thoughts. Did you know that there is no such thing as being "tone deaf?" Had I gone on to teach music, it would have been at the 2nd or 3rd grade level, because once you can get a child to hear a "tone" they never forget. Individuals who think they are "tone deaf" are simply individuals whose parents never sang with them or to them; who didn't grow up singing. My earliest recollection of singing is traveling from Washington, DC to Raleigh NC, on old US1, with my grandfather singing "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette" (it's the only song to which he knew all the words) and running all the red lights, because, otherwise, I would start crying. Wow ... what a ramble ... must be feeling my mortality these days ... jen