However, I think it's more important to encourage anyone and everyone to play according to whatever their level of drive dictates to them. It's not about becoming the maddest shredder or most learned theorist. To say that someone who does not follow your definition of a practice schedule is not a musician is just wrong.
mu·si·cian
1. a person who makes music a profession, esp. as a performer of music.
2. any person, whether professional or not, skilled in music.
Just my two cents.
...so ever since then, I always hang on to the buckle.
