Originally Posted by MarioD
I finally got to view it. I had to go to Paramount+, look up 60 minutes, then search for the video. Those kids are fantastic musicians.
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope many young people around the world are inspired by stories like that one. I’d guess that the “10,000 hours” that they accumulated were high-quality hours.

Here’s more from Levitin on the subject.

The ten-thousand-hours theory is consistent with what we know about how the brain learns. Learning requires the assimilation and consolidation of information in neural tissue. The more experiences we have with something, the stronger the memory/learning trace for that experience becomes.

The classic rebuttal to the ten-thousand-hours argument goes something like this: “Well, what about Mozart? I hear he was composing symphonies at the age of four! And if he was practicing forty hours a week since the day he was born, that doesn’t make ten thousand hours.”

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For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.