Not good to view it as a "gift".

If someone is playing better than you are, it is because they did *something* to get there.

Even the child prodigy.

"Doing something" may not be readily apparent to the outside observer, though. For example, it may have more to do with a different way of envisoning various musical entities, such as intervals, scales, etc. and the like, also memory associations, muscle memory associations and the little understood ways that the human thinking system manages to deal with these things. For some, it may take place more in the subconcious level, too.

AFAIC, everything can be described in a Math, including music, but we do not necessarily have to be thinking in terms of the Math in order to manipulate these things. Good case in point here would be the well known number of Autistics who can play music very well indeed. Or the people diagnosed as dyslexic who can perceive rather complex things as patterns, including numericals, yet may not be able to deal with the mechanical aspects of the math as most have to learn to do it in order to do it at all.

Arguing over how it is done is nonproductive, however, if the goal is to be a better musician.

Far better to do something -- *anything* -- with that time that will translate to an improvement in whatever it is that you need to do in order to get one step closer per day, per week, etc. to the goal of Strong Performance.

This works by doing something every day and repeating that. The little steps soon add up to giant steps.


--Mac

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