I'm just tired of reading overly-reductive accounts that talk about how all that matters is practice and anybody can be God's gift to music if only they'd work

I'm just tired of reading overly-reductive accounts that talk about how all that matters is practice and anybody can be God's gift to music if only they'd work hard enough at it. Did you mean to say my 'account' is one of those? Well, I didn't say either of those two things. (I think your account was overly reductive.) :-) Good luck!