My quest to play jazz clarinet continues and especially last night as I chatted away at a party with a friend of mine who is a saxophonist. Amongst much talk about what it takes to learn to play jazz, we came to the conclusion that learning an instrument is a lot like living the Christian life. That is, to do nothing is to be going backwards. It's often simply about consistent, intentional practise.
There's an old saying amongst piano players that;
If you don't practise for one day, you know.
If you don't practise for two days, your teacher knows.
If you don't practise for three days, the audience knows.
At that point the analogy kind of falls down, because God knows everything. But unintentially my friend reminded me that I need to be just as deliberate in my walk with God as I am at trying to learn clarinet.
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