This feels alien to me. As I play for fun of course I try new things, and keep expanding what I can do. That's how I've always learned music. I think I've even

This feels alien to me. As I play for fun of course I try new things, and keep expanding what I can do. That's how I've always learned music. I think I've even done my fastest growing while playing live for dances, which is probably the most "fun" and least "deliberate practice" there is! You're speaking in very strong terms, as if we really understood how people become good musicans, but I think we really don't understand it and people take many different paths. (My background: I started on guitar at about ten, switched to mandolin at about twenty, have always dabbled in other instruments, and at this point my main one is probably piano. I play in two contra dance bands, https://kingfisherband.com https://kingfisherband.com and https://freeraisins.com https://freeraisins.com , and mostly play for dancing.)