Instrumentally, I can pick out a melody line,slowly with one finger on piano, for really difficult pieces like "The Water is Wide" or "Michael Row the Boat Ashore"; in fewer words, no playing ability whatever. I didn't pick up singing naturally at all as a kid, and was repeatedly admonished that I couldn't sing. In just the last few years I've gotten enough perspective to realize that, while I'll never be a performer, I'm not that bad with a song that I know well. I still freeze up to badly to sing a public solo that anyone would want to hear. I do sometimes feel a real measure of regret in that a couple of decent songs that I've written get heard only at the odd time when my wife has the opportunity to sing one for a few people.