She may be a classically trained flautist now, but when Lizzo was first starting off on the instrument, she was largely self-taught. She told CBS News in October 2019 that she would learn to play songs by ear, and afterwards, she would use the sheet music to figure out the notes. ". . . by the time I got private lessons, they were like, 'Whoa, like, where did you learn technique? You're like a wild horse. And that's an amazing thing, 'cause you have all this power. And you have all this style. But we need to give you some technique,'" she recounted. "And so I had to actually go back and learn how to, like, play notes properly when I got older."