I am a professional bassoon player (working in an almost full size symphony orchestra of 82 in Norrköping, Sweden). I am heading off for the practice room about

I am a professional bassoon player (working in an almost full size symphony orchestra of 82 in Norrköping, Sweden). I am heading off for the practice room about 2 minutes after writing this. Perviously, I have never been a fan of these things. Sure, with Hillary Hahn it is a great thing to be able toget a glimpse how someone that amazing approaches practice, but the smaller accounts were bot at all something I liked: they generally play ok-ish at best, and whatever students I had that were in on it were the ones with the least motivation and willingness to ACTUALLY practice. I have been seeing most social media as nothing but digressions from what actually matters. To become any good, you will probably need 3-4 hours of focused practice 5-6 days a week. Spending one or two of those hours of practice also doing Instagram often means one or two hours wasted. At least that is what I thought until this year: I am so thankful that my students can connect with others. I am having a hard time motivating myself, even moreso with my students. Any positive bassoon interaction they have, and anything that makes them think "hmmm... Maybe I should try doing it like this" is fantastic.