The Relation between Teenage Interests in Music with Music Learning Motivation in Students at East Jakarta Music School

This study aims to find out whether there is a relationship between teenage music interest and music learning motivation of students at East Jakarta Music School. The research method used a random sampling technique with a sample of 152 respondents. The method of collecting data used a questionnaire of a Likert Scale model with a musical interest scale of 40 items and a learning motivation scale of 40 items. After testing, it is found that the validity coefficient value of the musical interest scale with a rhythm ranges from 0.389 to 0.820 so that 27 items are valid and 13 items are dropped with a reliability of 0.942. Meanwhile on the learning motivation scale the validity coefficient values obtained with rites ranged from 0.380 to 0.846 so that 28 valid items were obtained and 12 items were knocked down with a reliability of 0.941. Based on the results of data analysis through Bivariate Correlation analysis, a value (r) of 0.982 was obtained. This shows that there is a relationship between teenage musical interests with motivation to learn at East Jakarta Music School, accepted. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between teenage music interest and learning motivation at East Jakarta Music School, meaning that the better the teenage music interest, the higher East Jakarta Music Schoolstudents learning motivation.