Should i quit piano at 6th Grade?

(Bare with me, this is really detailed)

I’ve just recently passed my 5th Grade AMEB Piano with a B+ and now I have started 6th Grade for about 5 weeks now. I can already play 1 song fluently and is most likely ready for exam, but as for my other songs – i’m really dreading to practice. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE playing the piano, I LOVE "the" piano, I LOVE making my own songs though this just happens randomnly, i don’t actually write down the notes on paper. I haven’t been educated with piano theory, so my knowledge of the piano notations (eg. minims, dotted minims etc) are very limited.

My teachers have been forever changing, and they’ve been comprised of Uni students teaching me. And i don’t like that. That’s probably why i absolutely dread waking up on Saturday morning and having to go to piano lessons.

I was also thinking of changing musical instruments. After having played the piano for 8 years, I do not think it necessary to continue piano as I have a sound understanding of the ways to play the piano and I am really good at sight reading. What benefits would finishing til 8th Grade give me?

I just want to know the consequences. I know that I will later regret this deeply in my later life. But i am very limited to the way i play piano. I had to keep re-selecting my songs for 6th Grade because my hands are way too small to reach an octave which i can play slowly together but the songs require me to play it fast which i cannot with my small hands. But I’m 16 years old, entering my final year of high school. I need to focus on that. But I need to decide whether or not to continue my piano lessons and just play the songs at home when I’m free and then when I think I have got the songs together, go back to piano lessons to get the teacher to brush up on a little things then do my exam – which will save my parents the money and give me flexibility. But by doing this, I know that I will not follow practicing at home.

I do hope to study music in University, don’t know whether it’d be my major, but it’s the only thing that interests me other than Business and paperwork etc. I like practical stuff. And i also want to study Film Studies and/or Theatre in Uni. But I don’t think the uni teachers would like the fact that i quit piano after just recently having started 6th Grade. They would seem me ask weak.

Please help me. I have piano lessons in about 2 hours time. Though i don’t expect anyone to have commented on this that quickly. I will probably tell my new teacher that i’m thinking of quitting, but then thinking of calling my ex-piano teacher and my other ex-piano teacher for advice. But… i don’t hope to go to piano next week. And my parents will support me in all my decisions.

I’m just worried, i might make the worse decision of my life. Living with regret.

NO,NO,NO,NO, do not quit. I repeat do not quit. I quit when I was going in the 7th grade and started playing the trombone because my piano teacher quit teaching due to health reasons. I just never bothered to find another teacher. Huge mistake. I went on an majored on the trombone in college. If I had stuck with the piano it would have helped me tremendously because I had to take piano in college and it was difficult to pick it back up. Plus pianos are so usable in so many settings. If you can play piano you can usually get playing jobs a lot easier than with other Instruments. I knew people who made a lot of extra money just playing accompaniments for other people. Every soloist needs a piano player. My room mate in college played the trombone and piano. He played keyboards in rock bands and payed for his college that way. After college he became the piano player for Garth Brooks, (a big country music star in the US ) touring band and made big $$$.
I know you teacher situation is not the best right now but this is one time you should force yourself to stick it out. You will not regret it later.

*Remember this next sentence* I know a lot of people who regret giving up the piano at a young age but I don’t know anyone who regrets that they stayed with it.

Like you said don’t make a mistake that you will regret the rest of your life, hang in there, you won’t be sorry you stuck with it.