Pathways to success. Nature or nurture.

Different Pathways to success - Conscious and Unconscious.

Some musicians are, or were what is called "child prodigies."

That is they were able to perform at a very high level in childhood.

A child prodigy is in the right environment to :

Not disturb their natural coordination
Make the right connections between imagination and body in order to perform music well.

This happens often before they can speak, read or write. Mozart is a good example. They need - never - become conscious of the steps in the process, in fact it can cause problems if they do. "The integration of thought and action which the virtuoso takes for granted... is seldom achieved by lesser talents, even after long years of study and practice." - from ' The Pianist's Talent ' by Harold Taylor

Now those who, and this applies to any area of activity, those who had to consciously construct their skill sets have a pretty good map of the whole process. Yehudi Menuhin is a good example of somebody who was a child prodigy, and then had to re-construct his whole playing process from scratch as an adult - Yehudi Menuhin - 'Life Class'.

So, there are different paths to mastery in any skill.

And of course, I wasn't a child prodigy. Here is part of the map I put together over a few decades - "Guitar Playing and how it works".

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