Abandon your engineering mindset when approaching any kind of art, especially music. Don't impose terms like "tooling" and talk about "my brain" and things like

Abandon your engineering mindset when approaching any kind of art, especially music. Don't impose terms like "tooling" and talk about "my brain" and things like that. Submit to your music teacher, learn music the way people have been learning it for thousands of years. Don't procrastinate with looking for "tool games", as so many enginerds do when the going gets tough.