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I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, __f only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she__ be so much further along!_ But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They__e blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can__ make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I__e seen my share of people like that. At first you think they__e amazing. Like, they can sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you__e overwhelmed. you think, __ could never do that in a million years._ But that__ as far as they go. They can__ take it any further. And why not? Because they won__ put in the effort. Because they haven__ had the discipline pounded into them. They__e been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they__e been able to play things well without any effort and they__e had people telling them how great they are from the time they__e little, so hard work looks stupid to them. They__l take some piece another kid has to work on for three weeks and polish it off in half the time, so the teacher figures they__e put enough into it and lets them go to the next thing. And they do that in half the time and go on to the next piece. They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required or character building. It__ a tragedy.
